Spain’s Neptuno scores with new US net

Spanish animation producer Neptuno Films has secured US airtime for two of its childrens properties after striking a deal with a new High Definition network.

Animania HD has acquired 2020 (26×30′) and The Gravediggers Squad (52×15′) from Barcelona-based Neptuno.

Co-produced with the Spanish children branded block Megatrix, 2020 is aimed at the 8-12 audience and focuses on a dysfunctional middle-class family in the year 2020.

The Gravediggers Squad was also produced for the 8-12 market, this time with TV3, Televisió de Catalunya. The show takes place in a spooky graveyard where three gravediggers try to solve mysteries.

Animania HD, a Rainbow Media subsidiary, launched in October 2003 and is available in the US on the VOOM satellite platform.