{"id":750802,"date":"2026-06-21T12:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750802\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T12:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:25:10","slug":"banijay-kids-family-close-raft-of-package-deals-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750802\/","title":{"rendered":"Banijay Kids & Family Close Raft of Package Deals in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRolling off its eyecatching portfolio of premium, high-end kids titles, Banijay Kids & Family has clinched a raft of package deals in Latin America, announced strategically in the run-up to this year\u2019s Annecy MIFA market.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a banner deal, Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a> Latin America has acquired teen girl undercover agent series \u201cTotally Spies<\/a>!\u201d Season 8 and Italian 2D adventure comedy \u201cTopo Gigio.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tV-me<\/a> Media, the family-targeting U.S. Spanish-language network has closed a broad gamut of shows for Vme Kids: preschool eco adventure \u201cMiniHeroes of the Forest,\u201d musical shorts series \u201cSweet Tweets,\u201d pre-school comedy \u201cMumfie,\u201d interstellar game comedy \u201cThe Game Catchers\u201d Season 1, and \u201cStan & Gran,\u201d a nature-packed mystery series for 4-7s.<\/p>\n

\n\tCanal Once<\/a>, a Mexican public broadcaster, has clinched a medley of shows for kids channel Once Ni\u00f1as y Ni\u00f1os: fantasy series \u201cChimera Keepers\u201d; scientific experiment adventure \u201cHey You! What If\u2026?\u201d; teen trainee vet reality show \u201cJunior Vets\u201d; global hit \u201cMoominvalley\u201d Seasons 3-4; sci-fi teen series \u201cSilverpoint\u201d Seasons 1-2; and \u201cStreet Football\u201d Season 4, which takes the tween players to a street football World Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn further deals, Hispanic Information Telecommunications Network (HITN<\/a>) has secured what Banijay Kids & Family describes as a broad content package for its U.S Latino and Latin-American preschool platform Edye. Titles include \u201cMiniHeroes of the Forest,\u201d \u201cSweet Tweets,\u201d CBeebies pre-school daily adventure tales \u201cTee and Mo,\u201d and \u201cThe Game Catchers\u201d Season 1.<\/p>\n

\n\tMore on \u2018Totally Spies,\u2019 \u2018MiniHeroes of the Forest,\u2019 \u2018The Game Catchers\u2019<\/p>\n

\n\tThough ranging widely and Canal Once\u2019s deal taking in more catalog fare, three titles seem particularly significant. \u201cTotally Spies\u201d Season 8, marks the second installment of the series after a Season 7 reboot of the original series, a global hit running for six seasons from 2001 through 2012. Season\u00a07 was a huge hit in France, bowing to a 37% share in the 4-14 demographic. Season 8 is produced by Zodiak Kids & Family France in collaboration with French kids TV network Gulli and Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\u2018MiniHeroes of the Forest\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Banijay Kids & Family<\/p>\n

\n\tProduced by Movimenti Production and MoBo, Italian-French woodland-set 3D comedy adventure series \u201cMiniHeroes of the Forest\u201d has four young animal friends acquiring mini super powers. Animation design has a combo used in much BK&F animation: Pop out colors for characters, natural tones for for richly worked backgrounds. \u201cMiniHeroes of the Forest\u201d reached No. 1 among kids 4-5 and No. 2 among kids 6-7 on Rai Yoyo (Italy). It featured in the top 15 preschool programs for France 5 and Okoo (France).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAcquired for distribution by Banijay Kids & Family in 2023, \u201cThe Game Catchers\u201d Season 1 sees little children traveling the universe discovering and collecting new playground games.<\/p>\n

\n\tBanijay Kids & Family Strategic Assets<\/p>\n

\n\tBanijay Kids & Family\u2019s new Latin America sales announcements come as animation remains a key factor of audience retention, the second most important after comedy (27.0% vs 25.4%) on Netflix and biggest (20.5%) on Max, according to PlumResearch. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAiding sales, Banijay of course owns big brands in kids entertainment, led by \u201cTotally Spies!\u201d and \u201cMr Bean: The Animated Series.\u201d Many of its shows play off revered IPs. \u201cTopo Gigio\u201d is inspired by a character which was a star on Italian pubcaster RAI from the late 1950s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBanijay Kids & Family is also flexing its expertise in building brand<\/a> beyond linear environments.\u00a0Titles, once established as brands may grow to what PlumResearch calls \u201cneo-evergreens\u201d \u2013 \u201cOne Piece\u201d in anime, \u201cPeppa Pig\u201d in animation \u2013 which help drive much of the longtail viewership of global streaming services, that accounts for 90% of their viewership, PlumResearch estimates.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThese latest deals underscore the continued demand for Banijay Kids & Family\u2019s premium catalogue, alongside our commitment to our long-term partners across Latin America,\u201d said C\u00e9cile Cau, SVP sales, co-productions and acquisitions, Banijay Kids & Family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tShe added: \u201cBy collaborating closely with commercial and public service clients in the region, we\u2019re able to deliver a rich content mix of entertainment and edutainment that meets audience needs, reinforcing our position as a go-to supplier of kids and family programming.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLed by Beno\u00eet Di Sabatino, Banijay Kids & Family is part of media and entertainment powerhouse Banijay Entertainment.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnnecy\u2019s Mifa market runs June 23-26.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Stan & Gran\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Banijay Kids & Family<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rolling off its eyecatching portfolio of premium, high-end kids titles, Banijay Kids & Family has clinched a raft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,360408,360409,134,360410,360411,427,360412,6142],"class_list":["post-750802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-banijay-kids-family","tag-canal-once","tag-entertainment","tag-hitn","tag-totally-spies","tag-tv","tag-v-me","tag-warner-bros-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}