Singaporean animation company Peach Blossom Media Pte Ltd has entered into three international co-production deals worth a total of S$32 million. The toon house will collaborate with South Korean studio Sunwoo Ent. and Dutch entity Submarine to produce a trio of new digitally animated 2D children’s series which have already been sold been sold to broadcasters in the U.S. and Europe.
Sunwoo, which has produced animation for FOX’s The Simpsons and Nickelodeon’s The Rugrats, will first work with Peach Blossom on Creepie. The 26-part cartoon series about a girl raised by a family of bugs will air on Discovery Kids in the U.S. The second project for the two studios will be I Got a Rocket, a 26-episode series based on a popular picture book of the same name. The show about a boy and his talking rocket has been picked up by Germany’s Kika and Nickelodeon Australia.
With Submarine, Peach Blossom will co-produce The Incredible Adventures of Kika and Bob, a 26-episode interactive toon series about a resourceful seven-year-old girl a not-too-clever fire-fighter who travel the globe and learn about interesting cultures. The series have been pre-sold to several European broadcasters including Discovery Kid U.K., Belgium broadcaster VRT and Swedish Broadcaster SVT.
The Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore will co-invest in all three productions as part of a memorandum of understanding it signed with Peach Blossom Media last December. In its efforts to support local animation companies, MDA will contribute funds to the production of seven Peach Blossom animation projects over a three-year period. The first project covered under the deal was Wild Animal Babies, a wildlife series based on a popular pre-school magazine distributed by the National Wildlife Federation in the U.S. That show will soon be available to broadcasters.
Peach Blossom Media’s first series, Tomato Twins, was the first original Asian show to be broadcast internationally on Nickelodeon. The company recently completed a new 52-episode series titled Tao Shu the Warrior Boy, which has been scooped up by Nickelodeon for Asia, Europe, France, the Middle-east and Hong Kong. More information on the studio is available at www.peachblossommedia.com.
