TV-Loonland seals multiple territory sales

MIPCOM NEWS: Mipcom 2004 has so far generated bumper sales for international producer-distributor, TV-Loonland, the company has announced.

As well as clinching deals with major broadcasters, including SuperRTL in Germany for properties such as Cramp Twins II and the new co-produced feature film, Heidi, TV-Loonland has extended sales into Asian territories, including a 300-hour pan Middle Eastern package deal.

“Despite the problems in the media industry, we have steadily expanded our portfolio of productions and our Loonland library to a currently suitable extent, and can thus offer TV broadcasters and video marketers varied and high-quality programming, ” said Dominic Rayner, Director of Sales at TV-Loonland. ” We are pleased with the significant increase in demand for our products across the world, in particular in many parts of Asia,” he added.

TV-Loonland has reported worldwide interest in new properties such as Metalheads, as well as popular existing series, Connie the Cow, Three Friends and Jerry, My Little Pony and The Cramp Twins.

Deals concluded so far at Mipcom include The Cramp Twins (first and second seasons – 52 x 30′) and Three Friends and Jerry to Fox Kids Europe/Jetix. Media Corp TV12 Singapore has picked up a second season of The Cramp Twins (26 x 30′) along with Clifford and Something Else.

Further sales of The Cramp Twins have been sealed with Teleprog International as part of a pan Middle Eastern 300 hour package deal that includes Metalheads, Conan the Adventurer, Enchanted Tales, My Little Pony and feature films. Metalheads has also sold to RTE Ireland and ABC Australia.

YLE Finland and Disney Germany have picked up pre-school series, Connie the Cow, Disney France has acquired three seasons of Famous Jett Jackson, and Retelsat Spain has picked up Fat Dog Mendoza, Conan the Adventurer, Jem and Transformers: Takara.

Other TV-Loonland deals struck at Mipcom include Cartoon Network Australia (Jem & the Holograms), ATV Hong Kong (Something Else, Pongwiffy and Donner), Trans TV Indonesia (Clifford), ABS CBN Philippines (Enchanted Tales), SABC2 South Africa (3D sitcom, Dragon’s Rock and Christmas special, Donner), TPI Indonesia (My Little Pony and My Little Pony Tales), Juita Viden/Unicorn Indonesia (Transformers and Transformers: Takara).