Premium kids content distributor Federation Kids & Family and its sister production company Cottonwood Media announced another raft of broadcast and licensing partners across Europe for their animated preschool hit ‘The Ollie & Moon Show’.
On the licensing front, Planeta Junior will represent the licensing rights to the show in France, where it launched on France Televisions in 2017. Planeta Junior join other prestigious licensing partners representing the property in the key markets of China (UYoung) and the US (Spotlight Licensing). Spotlight has already brought on a number of licensees in the US, where it earned the coveted Common-Sense Media Seal, following its global debut on Sprout with excellent ratings.
Commenting on the association, Ignacio Segura, Managing Director of Planeta Junior, said “We are delighted to represent Ollie & Moon for Licensing and Merchandising in France. This is another step to the close relation Planeta Junior is building with Cottonwood and we are proud they trust us to build a licensing program based on quality and imagination, key values of the Ollie & Moon TV series.”
The latest channels to snap up Seasons 1 and 2 of the series are: K2 (Italy), RTP (Portugal), ERRTV (Estonia), and LTV (Latvia), while Discovery Latin America has added Season 2 to its schedule. The show has been widely sold to broadcasters worldwide, including NBC Sprout (USA), Netflix (US, Canada), France Televisions (France), Uyoung (China), TVO, TFO and Knowledge (Canada), Discovery (Middle East), and VRT (Belgium), among many others.
Monica Levy, Vice President of International Sales, Federation Kids and Family, added, “The Ollie & Moon Show is a fabulous, universally appealing series that is obviously taking the world by storm. We are also extremely pleased to see its success on TV turn into great licensing partnerships with expert companies such as Planeta Junior, Spotlight and UYoung.”
The Ollie & Moon Show is an animated, upper-preschool, television series celebrating unusual friendships, curiosity, and appreciating the differences in all of us. The series stars two cute and kooky cats – the carefree, adventurous, and happy-go-lucky moon along with the practical, straight-laced, by-the-book Ollie – who have a knack for spinning everyday preschool life into zany globetrotting adventures.
The television series is based on the best-selling Ollie & Moon books created by author and illustrator Diane Kredensor.
The Ollie & Moon Show is produced by Cottonwood Media and distributed by sister company Federation Kids & Family.
