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The JAM Media-produced collection has been commissioned by BBC Youngsters’s and Schooling and is about for a spring 2025 launch
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Thunderbird Leisure Group Inc. (TSXV:TBRD, OTC:THBRF) (“Thunderbird” or the “Firm”) is happy to announce that Thunderbird Distribution, a division of the Firm, has acquired international media (excluding the UK, Eire, Denmark, Finland and Sweden) and shopper merchandise rights to new preschool collection BeddyByes. The CG-animated collection is produced by Eire’s JAM Media and is an authentic manufacturing for BBC Youngsters’s and Schooling that can debut on CBeebies and BBC iPlayer in spring 2025. Moreover, Eire’s RTE is on-board as a co-producer and Nordic pubcasters DR (Denmark), YLE (Finland) and SVT (Sweden) have prebought the collection.
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BeddyByes (52 x 11 minutes) is a visually wealthy and uniquely tactile CG-animated collection designed to assist toddlers and younger preschoolers prepare for sleep by taking them on a delicate, undulating journey to bedtime. Viewers will comply with central characters MeMo and BaBa via the routine of a younger youngster’s day, from playtime and mealtime to bathtime and bedtime, as they encounter a bunch of fantastical beings that encourage good diet, mindfulness, and creativity, winding down in the direction of sleep.
“There was an actual hole available in the market for a collection designed to assist younger kids and their dad and mom navigate the journey in the direction of bedtime, and BeddyByes will fill it fantastically,” stated Richard Goldsmith, Thunderbird President of World Distribution & Shopper Merchandise. “It’s precisely the type of distinctive industrial property produced by a rare producer that we’re frequently looking out for as we construct our third-party enterprise. We consider toddlers and younger preschoolers will probably be drawn to the extremely huggable world of BeddyByes created by JAM. We will’t wait to share it with worldwide platforms and different potential companions.”
“We’re so happy that Thunderbird Distribution will probably be introducing BeddyByes to international platform patrons, together with potential shopper merchandise companions via Thunderbird Manufacturers,” stated John Rice, JAM Media CEO. “JAM co-founder Alan Shannon and I, each had toddlers on the similar time just a few years again, and that sparked the concept for this collection. We noticed an actual want for content material that would offer toddlers and younger preschoolers with a relaxing and soothing expertise that will assist them fortunately drift off to sleep. And now, with Thunderbird on-board, children around the globe will get an opportunity to fulfill and fall in love with MeMo and BaBa and their buddies.”
BeddyByes is produced by UK and Irish-based JAM Media with workplaces in Belfast and Dublin. Government producers and creators are John Rice and Alan Shannon, with Beth Gardiner serving because the Commissioning Editor for CBeebies and Suzanne Kelly, Head of Youngsters’s & Younger Individuals’s Content material at RTE, representing the broadcaster.
Thunderbird Distribution will probably be previewing BeddyByes to patrons at MIPCOM, happening October 21 – 24 in Cannes, France.
ABOUT THUNDERBIRD ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
Thunderbird Leisure Group is a world award-winning, full-service multiplatform manufacturing, distribution and rights administration firm, headquartered in Vancouver, with further workplaces in Los Angeles and Ottawa. Thunderbird creates award-winning scripted, unscripted, and animated programming for the world’s main digital platforms, in addition to Canadian and worldwide broadcasters. The Firm develops, produces, and distributes animated, factual, and scripted content material via its varied content material arms, together with Thunderbird Youngsters and Household (Atomic Cartoons), Thunderbird Unscripted (Nice Pacific Media) and Thunderbird Scripted. Productions beneath the Thunderbird umbrella embrace The Final Youngsters on Earth, Molly of Denali, Freeway Via Hell, Kim’s Comfort, Reginald the Vampire and Boot Camp. Thunderbird Distribution and Thunderbird Manufacturers handle international media and shopper merchandise rights, respectively, for the Firm and choose third events. Thunderbird is on Fb, X, and Instagram at @tbirdent. For extra info, go to: www.thunderbird.television.
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ABOUT JAM MEDIA
JAM Media ( www.jammedia.com), with operations in each Eire and the UK, is likely one of the main creators and producers of multi-award successful animated and live-action content material for the kids’s and preschool viewers. JAM prides itself on delivering prime quality, modern, story-driven manufacturers throughout a number of platforms based mostly round participating characters with humour at its coronary heart. The corporate was based in 2002 by animator buddies John Rice, Alan Shannon and Mark Cumberton.
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