Jetpack closed new deals with 12 European broadcasters for 760 half hours of content

Global kids and family content distributor Jetpack Distribution has confirmed deals with 12 broadcast partners across Europe today for 760 half hours of character-driven, animated and mixed content shows from its burgeoning catalog. The deals will see a broad range of the company’s TV series across all genres and age groups airing with the following broadcasters.

“These recent deals are a true testament to the strength of the catalog and our creator partners; and that we have such a variety of content. We’re hugely privileged to be doing deals with such a brilliant bunch of broadcast partners across Europe, and around the world,” Jetpack Distribution CEO, Dominic Gardiner, said.

The UK’s BBC Children’s has picked up the VOD and TV rights for “Spookiz The Movie” and “Oswaldo” season 1. Also, in the UK, Sky has acquired the VOD and TV rights for “Critters TV.” In Denmark, DR has acquired the VOD rights for “Welcome to Cardboard City” seasons 1 and 2, VOD and free TV rights for “Chuggington” season 6, and VOD rights for “Ladybird & Bee” seasons 1 and 2. Norway’s NRK has renewed the rights for “Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed!” season 1, “My Petsaurus” season 1 and 2, and taken in the VOD and TV rights for “Welcome to Cardboard City.”

IFC Media in the Czech Republic and Slovakia has bought pay TV rights for “Chuggington” seasons 2 to 5, “Kazoops,” “Mighty Little Bheem,” “My Petsaurus” seasons 1-5, and “Spookiz” four seasons. TV2 in Hungary has bought TV and VOD rights for “Emmy and Gooroo” season 1, “Kitty Is Not a Cat” season 1, “Ladybird & Bee” season 1, “Wolf” season 1, “Mighty Little Bheem,” “Spookley and the Christmas Kittens,” and “Spookley the Square Pumpkin.” In Portugal, SIC has acquired pay TV rights for “Mechamato” season 1.

Furthermore, Finland’s YLE has picked up the rights for “Ladybird & Bee” season 1. AMCNI CNE in Central & Northern Europe has bought the VOD and TV rights for “Marsupilami” seasons 1 to 3 and “Oswaldo” for Minimax. TV Joj in Slovakia has picked up the TV and VOD rights for “Critters TV” season 1, “The Moe Show” seasons 1 to 4, “Spookiz,” and “Mechamato” season 1. Germany’s Studio Hamburg Enterprises has bought the TV and VOD rights for “The Sisters” season 2. Finally, The Baltic Kidzone TV has purchased Hungarian VOD rights for “Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed!” seasons 1 and 2, “Eliot Kid” seasons 1 and 2, “Wolf” seasons 1 and 2, and “Kitty is Not a Cat” season 1; while Latvia’s LTV has picked up the rights for “Chuggington” season 1 and the movie “Yoko and His Friends.”