Dragon stalks Mipcom

Dragon (26×12′), a new children’s stop-motion animation series launching at Mipcom, is being billed as the first coproduction to unite broadcasters in Canada, Germany and Korea.

The series comes from Canadian children’s channel YTV Treehouse, German public network ZDF and Korean educational broadcaster EBS.

Based on the Dragon Tales books by award-winning author Dav Pilkey (Captain Underpants), the stop-frame toon has been coproduced by Cite-Amérique (Canada), Scopas Medien (Germany) and Image Plus (Korea).

Canada’s FRV Media International, the sales arm of Cite-Amérique’s recent owner FRV Media, is distributing the show in North America, Latin America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. ZDF Enterprises retains all European rights, with Image Plus overseeing the rest of Asia.

Adapted for TV by Steve Westren, the preschool show follows a cute T-Rex and tackles universal themes children can identify with such as being afraid of the dark, wanting a friend and cleaning a messy room. The series is being offered to Mipcom buyers in seven-minute and 2.5-minute formats to allow greater programming flexibility.