CBS lines up Barbie for Thanksgiving

Stateside network CBS has given a tx date for its recently-acquired animation special Barbie in the Nutcracker, the new cgi show produced by Mainframe Entertainment and Mattel.

CBS is to air a 52-minute version of the show on November 22 in a 12:00ET/16:00PT slot, as a central part of its Thanksgiving Day output. The network picked up the toon from its US distributor Artisan.

Outside North America, the show is distributed by the UK's Entertainment Rights, which has pre-sold the show to Super RTL (Germany), Telecinco (Spain), Mediaset (Italy), TVI (Portugal), TV2 (Denmark), TV2 (Norway), RTL4 (Holland), Seven Network (Australia), TVB (Hong Kong), EBS (Taiwan), Televisa (Mexico) and Globo TV (Brazil).

ER has also sold video rights to Universal Pictures Video, while retaining UK video rights for its home video label Right Entertainment. It will be releasing the home video into the UK next Monday. {Pre-orders have been phenomenal,{ said Entertainment Rights' general manager of home entertainment, Andrew Wishart.