Customise Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorised as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyse the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customised advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyse the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

ADVERTISEMENT

Xilam Animation Builds Strong Foundation for ‘Piggy Builders’ with Euro Broadcast Partners

Academy Award-nominated French animation studio Xilam Animation has secured a number of European public broadcast partners for its upcoming CG preschool proprietary series
Piggy Builders, with France Télévisions, BBC (U.K.) and ZDF (Germany) on board as commissioning broadcasters. The 52 x 11’ series was first pitched at Cartoon Forum in 2021 and is now set to be delivered in Q3 2025, with Romain Villemaine as the director (Ricky Zoom, Maya the Bee, Valiant). The first episodes will be released at MIPCOM in October.

Piggy Builders is created by Marie Manand, Julien Hazebroucq and Emmanuelle Leleu and follows Cornelia, Cesar and Charlie, a trio of charismatic and curly-tailed piggy siblings who live in Fine Forest. Whilst they are very different to one another in nature, they have many things in common: they all love building, they all love solving problems, they all love their community and, most importantly, they all love each other. There’s one more thing they have in common: they all have a lot to learn about working together. When these three little piggies don’t function as a team, the projects they’re working on go wrong in very silly and funny ways. But when they manage to work as a team, the impossible becomes possible!

As the piggies embark on their building projects, they also must face a lazy and selfish wolf, Vern, who thinks he’s bigger and badder than he really is. Vern interferes with piggies’ projects and rubs his paws in glee at the prospect that his meddling will mess things up for them.

“As we continue expanding our offering of CG content, Piggy Builders makes the perfect addition to our slate of proprietary content as it brings so many endearing characters and humorous stories of teamwork, while also highlighting the importance of family,” said Marc du Pontavice, Founder & CEO of Xilam Animation. “Piggy Builders received a fantastic response at Cartoon Forum, and we’re now honored to have such strong national broadcast partners in France Télévisions, BBC and ZDF joining us on this adventure. We look forward to collaborating with each of these broadcasters and to introducing our wonderful little piggies to audiences, who we’re sure will charm and entertain preschoolers and families around the world.”

ADVERTISEMENT

NEWSLETTER

ADVERTISEMENT

MOST RECENT

CONTEST

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT