Turbo Dogs, a new CG-animated action-comedy series from Scholastic, has been scheduled to debut on Oct. 3 on multilingual and multimedia programming platform qubo (www.qubo.com). In each episode, canine heroes Dash, Mags, GT, Strut, Stinkbert and Clutch will take kids on a high-speed racing adventure with an emphasis on friendship and teamwork. Turbo Dogs will air on the CBC in Canada.
Co-produced by CCI Ent., and animated by Huhu Studios, Turbo Dogs is based on the Racer Dogs book by Bob Kolar. The action is set in the town of Racerville, where a wacky, canine-based community shares a passion for motor sports. The series will aim to expose kids to the concepts of direction, distance and time, while reinforcing the importance of cooperation and fair play.
‘Huhu Studios is thrilled to be part of the team delivering Turbo Dogs to audiences in North America,’ says Trevor Yaxley of Huhu Studios. ‘Our animators and production teams have relished working with this fun bunch of characters. To see animators laughing at story elements during the early parts of production is rare, but it’s certainly not uncommon to hear animators chuckling to themselves as they work on this show!”
Formed in 2006 by Scholastic, ION Media Networks, NBC Universal, Corus Ent. and Entertainment Rights Group companies (Entertainment Rights, Classic Media and Big Idea), qubo’s multi-platform offerings can be found on NBC on Saturday mornings, ION TV network Fridays afternoons and Telemundo weekend mornings, as well as on qubo’s 24/7 digital broadcast channel and website, www.qubo.com. The qubo Channel is broadcast in both English and Spanish, and is available in all markets served by an ION Television station, as well as via Verizon’s FIOS TV, AT&T’s U-Verse, Mediacom and Comcast.
