Producing partners Wind Sun Sky Entertainment, Clearwater Farm and educational charity Ontario Water Centre have announced CBC Kids as the Canadian broadcast and streaming partner for their global ‘eco-tainment’ platform, Future Chicken.
Kicking off the partnership, The Future Chicken Today Show will premiere on Sunday, November 5 as part of CBC Kids’ morning schedule on CBC TV and CBC Gem, and will subsequently be available on the Future Chicken YouTube channel the following day. The Future Chicken Ecotainment shorts will also be shared on cbckids.ca and the CBC Kids YouTube channel.
Aimed primarily at kids aged six to 10, Future Chicken aims to counter climate “doomism” by offering a variety of entertaining and educational experiences including an interactive website, weekly talk show, monthly podcast, hundreds of shorts and more, which set to inspire hope and empowerment to build a better future.
The premise centers on a time-travelling, eco-superhero chicken named Potato, also known as “Future Chicken” — a time-traveler from 2050. Together with her tech-wiz sidekick, Frittata, they embark on the most important adventure there ever was: to spark positive change in the present and safeguard the future of our planet. With a blend of humor, ingenuity and collaboration, Potato, Frittata and their Planet Protector friends work to create a hope-filled future built on caring communities, thriving oceans, greener cities and renewed optimism. Future Chicken truly believes, “Together, we make the future!”
“Future Chicken takes on our planet’s most existential challenges with warmth and pluck — it’s a tone that we hope will inspire kids — and us all — to be the heroes the planet needs right now,” said Marie McCann, Senior Director, Children’s Content, CBC Kids.
“We are absolutely thrilled to have CBC Kids as our partner, joining us in our mission to reach and inspire as many children as possible,” said Executive Producers, Catherine Winder (CEO, Wind Sun Sky) and Annabel Slaight (founding chair, Ontario Water Centre). “Together, we’ll amplify the power of eco-tainment to ignite the imaginations of young minds and foster a generation that believes in a brighter, more sustainable future.”
Winder and Slaight both bring entertainment and children’s outreach experience to the project. Winder is known for adapting hit IP including Star Wars: Clone Wars, Angry Birds and Invincible to screens. As a member of the Young Naturalist Movement, Slaight co-founded the acclaimed OWL kids’ magazine, which has extended to books and television.
The Future Chicken Today Show: In the year 2050, the BioBarn (half TV Studio/half Planet Protector HQ), is abuzz with activity. Using their time-twister portal, hosts Potato, Frittata, and Rocket Pants present a live-streamed show from the future to engage kids in 2023. This monthly event, known as The Future Chicken Today Show, is a dynamic eco-tainment series featuring lively interviews with notable guests who provide inspiring yet honest perspectives on the global environment. Cutting-edge technology allows for interviews conducted by the world’s first animated chicken host.
Tune in ‘live’ from 2050 as our hosts showcase a new video game, celebrate ‘Chicken Appreciation Day’, and interview guests from the 2020s who ‘time-twist’ to the studio to offer solutions, share planet-protecting advice, and join the fun. The show introduces wildlife conservationists, gaming influencers, climate scientists, eco-activists, and more, fostering inspiration and humor to empower kids with a positive outlook on the future. The Future Chicken Today Show represents a groundbreaking era in live streaming!
The positive world-saving adventures will also be chronicled in the animated Future Chicken Ecotainment Shorts, which leverage the concept of micro-learning to deliver mixed media edutainment. The shorts follow the Planet Protectors — Potato the Chicken, her BFF Frittata, a joke-cracking egg with rocket pants for flight; an electric catfish fascinated by fascinators named Persa; a soil connoisseur worm named worm; and an eco-detective mushroom, Bello with a passion for cyclical regeneration — through multiple strands of positive eco-stories such as Good News shorts that highlight eco-inventions that are having a positive effect on the environment, to Nature ASMR and gameshow-style quizzes about composting.
Learn more at futurechicken.com.
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