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19 Feb 2024

Particle6 Productions’ Look See Wow! set to go global with Jetpack Distribution

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Particle6 Productions, the award-winning UK indie founded by Eline van der Velden, is delighted to announce that leading kids’ distributor Jetpack Distribution has picked up the global rights (ex-UK) for its hit Sky Kids series Look See Wow!
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25 Sep 2023

Snipple Originals Announces Brand New Pre School Series The Woohoos! Commissioned by Milkshake!

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Kids encouraged to ‘Ooo’ and ‘Woohoo’ out loud as they make discoveries in this character driven series Commissioned by Milkshake!, the series will hit UK screens in 2025.
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18 Sep 2023

SAMKA GROUP Hires Veteran Tramm Wigzell To Grow It’s Global Content Portfolio and Initiate US Projects

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Wigzell joins the Paris-based SAMKA GROUP, who operate content, production and distribution businesses across EMEA.
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4 Apr 2023

Jetpack Adds New Zealand Toon Panda and Kiwi to its MIPTV Line Up

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Global kids and family content distributor, Jetpack Distribution, announces it has acquired the international rights (outside of China, New Zealand and MENA) for CGI animated series Panda and Kiwi, ahead of MIPTV this month.
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19 Jan 2023

Jetpack Behind the Blast - Podcast 1 - Mellie Buse

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We’ve finally done it! By popular demand (and with help from Andrew Williams) Jetpack presents the first Behind the Blast podcast with kids TV royalty, and prolific writer and creator, Adastra Development’s Mellie Buse! Hosted by our very own Matt Bowen (acquisitions expert and former radio DJ!).
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30 Jun 2022

“It’s What We All Want, to Connect to the Earth…We All Remember that Sense of Wonder We Had as Children”

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We’re back with Jetpack’s Behind the Blast, where Gráinne Mc Guinness, creative director of Paper Owl Films, lifts the lid on their beautiful 2D animated preschool show Ladybird & Bee.
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13 Jun 2022

Jetpack Adds Birdo Studios’ Botanical Comedy Flora to its Pre-School Line Up

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Today, global kids content distributor Jetpack Distribution announces it has acquired the rights for 2D animated botanical comedy children’s series Flora, produced by Brazil’s Birdo Studios.
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2 Feb 2022

Subverting Fairy Tales and Moving Stories of Family Life Fuel Success of Samka’s Wolf and The Sisters

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Hello – we’re back with Jetpack’s Behind the Blast! A cheeky look behind the scenes with some of our very best producers and creatives. Why? To uplift, inspire and learn a bit more about how shows come about and what fuels their success. Today, we go behind the blast with Samuel Kaminka, CEO and Executive Producer at SAMKA, who’s illustrious line up of quality French animation includes The Sisters and Wolf, two of Jetpack’s most popular catalogue gems.
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27 Aug 2021

Jetpack Distribution’s Behind the Blast Questions for Sallyann Keizer, Founder and Managing Director, Sixth Sense Media

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Behind the Blast celebrates the creativity that fuels Jetpack and, indeed, our industry. We’ll be picking the brains of our illustrious show creatives to spill the beans on stuff we’d never know, from their funniest moments making the show to incidents that triggered their (often quite crazy) ideas. From their top lockdown music tracks to what makes them laugh. It’s a five-minute feel-good read. We hope you enjoy it!
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17 Jun 2021

Jetpack Acquires New CGI Animation Stella & the Starlets from Newly Launched Kids Business

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Today, independent global kids and family TV distributor – Jetpack Distribution – announces it has acquired the global rights for brand-new CGI animated series Stella & the Starlets, currently in pre-production.
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8 Jun 2021

Jetpack Acquires Global Rights for Russian SMF Studio’s Claymotions

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Today, global kids and family content distributor, Jetpack Distribution announces that it has acquired the worldwide rights for Moscow-based SMF Studio’s Claymotions. The deal comprises 62 two-and-a-half minute episodes of the edutainment pre-school show that targets 2+ year olds.
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10 May 2021

JETPACK SIGNS DEAL FOR VINEWOOD ANIMATION’S WELCOME TO CARDBOARD CITY

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3D animated series, based on a multi-award-winning special, featuring Jacinda Ardern and Ian Brown (Stone Roses), to be made available across the globe.
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19 Mar 2021

Jetpack is #2 Distributor in KIDSCREEN HOT 50 for 2020

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Jetpack was delighted to be nominated the number two distribution business in the prestigious KIDSCREEN HOT 50. As Kidscreen said "Independent UK distributor Jetpack moves up from fourth to second this year on the strength of a catalogue that has grown 40% year-over-year."
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11 Aug 2020

Reckless abandon, screaming joy, dizzying tantrums and post-apocalyptic insects come together for an animated sensation

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Jetpack goes Behind the Blast with Walid Omar, executive producer and director of Buck and Buddy
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