Euro channels loaded for bear toon

Broadcasters around Europe have acquired CGI comedy Grizzy & The Lemmings from the fledgling distribution arm of French producer Hari.

Hari’s Grizzy and The Lemmings

VRT in Belgium, NPO in the Netherlands, NRK in Norway, SVT in Sweden, RUV in Iceland and Puls TV in Poland will air the 78×7′ series.

Other broadcasters to have acquired the show include Canadian network Télé-Québec and Germany’s Super RTL.

The slapstick comedy focuses on a dumb bear and a gang of lemmings who live in a nature reserve.

Hari, which is run by Josselin Charier and Antoine Rodelet, set up an international sales division, run by former Gaumont Animation exec Adeline Tormo, to handle sales of Grizzy.

The show is produced by Hari for public broadcaster France Télévisions, while Turner took the worldwide pay TV rights to the show for its Boomerang network.

“Since the worldwide pay TV exposure is already secured, our aim is to bring together the largest number of national terrestrial partners to establish the brand,” said Tormo, head of sales at Hari International.