Universal Kids savours Boat Rocker food toon

Boat Rocker Rights’ Ollie! The Boy Who Became What He Ate

Broadcasters in the US, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia have acquired series from Canada’s Boat Rocker Rights including Ollie! The Boy Who Became What He Ate.

The 52×11′ animated series, which follows a picky eater who becomes what he eats and gains that food’s superpower, has been sold to Universal Kids in the US.

The NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment-owned network has been joined by Discovery in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia and Huashi TV in China in acquiring the series.

The series is a CBC Kids original and a coproduction from Boat Rocker-owned Radical Sheep Productions and Mickey Rogers Media. It was created by Storycake’s Sheena Macrae.

Meanwhile, festive special The Great Northern Candy Drop (1×30′), produced by Amberwood Entertainment, has been picked up by SRC in French Canada from Boat Rocker Rights. The broadcaster has also acquired Dot (52×11′), which is produced by Industrial Brothers in association with The Jim Henson Company.

Boat Rocker Rights has also sold Lost & Found Music Studios (27×30′), a scripted comedy/drama in which young artists navigate the ups and downs of the music industry, to NRK in Norway and Disney in Australia and New Zealand.