At the moment, France-based animation studio HARI introduced a brand new take care of the BBC, which has acquired the rights for function high quality CGI animated exhibits Grizzy and The Lemmings World Tour and The Weasy Household. The deal will see each exhibits air throughout the general public service broadcaster’s linear and digital platforms in 2023/2024 and past.
The consists of seasons three and 4 of the worldwide hit Grizzy and The Lemmings, titled Grizzy and The Lemmings World Tour. Every season incorporates 78 x 7-minute episodes of the non-dialog slapstick comedy. Season three is produced and season 4 is at present in manufacturing (delivering in 2024).
Appropriate for all age teams, however primarily aimed toward youngsters aged 6+ and their households, the sequence facilities on a grizzly bear named Grizzy who has to take care of a tribe of eponymous lemmings, with hilarious outcomes! Within the new seasons they by chance take off on a world tour.
Grizzy and The Lemmings first aired in 2016 and has gone on to turn into an award-winning household favourite around the globe. It featured in Netflix’s Prime 10 exhibits in additional than 60 territories, and amasses 1 billion YouTube views annually. The present received Finest Animated Sequence on the Kidscreen Awards (2018) and was nominated for an Emmy in 2019.
World broadcast companions embody France Tv, Warner Media, Netflix, Germany’s Tremendous RTL, Mango TV in China, Wildbrain and Canada’s TeleQuebec.
The Weasy Household is Hari’s brand-new slapstick non-dialog animated sequence, at present in manufacturing. Comprising 78 x 7- minute episodes, it takes place in a Wisconsin barn in the course of the cornfields, the place Weasy, an irresponsible weasel with the IQ of a human teenager, raises the dual ducklings he adopted after by chance incubating their egg.
The present combines comedy motion with emotional household moments and mum or dad/little one relationships. In response to HARI, it’s the first-ever benevolent slapstick cartoon, the place nobody will get harm even when conditions get out of hand.
Broadcast companions embody France Tv, Germany’s Tremendous RTL and Canada’s TeleQuebec.
Each exhibits have been created by govt producers and co-founders of HARI, Josselin Charier and Antoine Rodelet.
“We created a brand new type of slapstick comedy with Grizzy and The Lemmings, and we’re delighted with its success,” mentioned Charier. “In our model new present The Weasy Household we discover a special type of slapstick comedy. Right here we’ve created a wholly new alchemy of characters and a singular steadiness between comedy and emotion.”
Sophie ‘Kido’ Prigent, HARI’s head of gross sales, provides, “BBC platforms supply an ideal dwelling for our comedy animated exhibits. Grizzy and The Lemmings has been an enormous success within the U.Okay.! The slapstick humor actually resonates with British households, so we’re delighted to be bringing our creations to even bigger audiences there.”
