MEDIA I.M. CLOSES DEALS IN SWEDEN, NORWAY AND ISRAEL Kikoriki, Rosa & Dara and Pin-Code kick start 2016 sales charge

London, February, 2016

Media I.M., the London-based content distribution company that specialises in premium and family entertainment, has licenced three of its top children’s shows to broadcasters in Sweden, Norway and Israel, it was reported today.

Swedish broadcaster SVT has acquired Bionaut’s Rosa and Dara and Their Great Holiday Adventures TV special (1x 26 min) for its children’s channel SVT Barnkanalen, where it will air in the third quarter of the year. In a second Nordic deal, the animated adventure-fantasy, which helps children to discover, understand and learn about the world in an entertaining and playful way, has also been licenced by Norwegian public broadcaster NRK for its NRK Super kids’ channel. The Nordic sales follow on last year’s multi-territory deal for Rosa and Dara with Middle Eastern broadcasting giant MBC3.

Two of Media I.M.’s best-selling animation series — Kikoriki New Adventures and Pin-Code — are headed for Israel on the back of deals with, respectively, Talit Communications and A+ Kids TV.

Talit Communications has licensed Kikoriki New Adventures for its children’s channels, which include Junior, BabyTV and Safari Kids. Kikoriki, Petersburg Animation Studio’s flagship brand about the spherical inhabitants of the world of Kikoriki, launched in 2003 and has gone on to become one of the most successful projects in the history of Russian animation. It is also proving to be popular on the international market, with deals closed in the last year with Turkey’s Dusyeri Animation Studios for Planeta Cocuk, MBC, Discovery Italia, Telecom Italia, Bulgarian public broadcaster BNT, Spain’s TV Galicia and Estonia’s ETV.

The animated science adventure and discovery series Pin-Code, which follows the adventures of a penguin inventor called Pin and features all key characters introduced in Kikoriki, is also headed for Israel via a 3.5-year deal with VOD educational service A+ Kids TV. Aimed at four- to eight-year-olds, A+ Kids TV launched on the Hot and Yes platforms in 2016 and plans to launch as a linear channel by the end of the year.

Irina Nazarenko, co-founder of Media I.M., said: “The Nordic territories and Israel are formidable competitive markets for children’s product, which makes these latest deals for Rosa and Dara, Kikoriki and Pin-Code particularly gratifying. This surge of interest in our catalogue is a great start to 2016 and a reflection of the global market’s on-going appetite for kids’ content which focuses on learning through entertainment and encourages kids to discover the world around them.”

About Media I.M. Media I.M., launched in April 2014 by former Viacom International Media Networks executives Maria Ufland and Irina Nazarenko, is an international content distribution company specialising in the sale of premium family entertainment and animation to both linear and non-linear platforms. The London-based operation, which has more than 1,000episodes of children’s animation in its portfolio, has exclusive distribution agreements with several of Europe and Russia’s top animation producers, including Ficción Producciones, Bionaut Films, Petersburg Animation Studio, Melnitsa Animation Studio, Studio Atria, Da Animation Studio and Studio Nebo. Media I.M. is active in pre-sales and identifying co- production and product licensing partners for its animation brands, which include Robodz, The Pooches, Kikoriki, Moonzy, Pin-Code, The Bubbles, TuTu, Rosa and Dara and Their Great Adventures, Riki and Flying Animals. Its boutique approach gives it the flexibility to develop 360-degree opportunities around each property to deliver maximum value to both producers and licensees.

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