TORONTO -- Canadian cartoon producer Amberwood Entertainment and British kids TV producer Talent Television Ltd. announced on Tuesday a joint venture that includes a first-look arrangement on programming either partner has in development. The deal, signed by Tony Humphreys, managing director of London-based Talent Television, and Sheldon Wiseman, president and CEO of Ottawa-based Amberwood Entertainment, aims at pooling international co-production dollars to boost budgets for kids programming that both have in the pipeline as global broadcast license fees continue to slump, the companies said in a statement. Talent Television, a division of Talent Group Plc., is producing four new Test The Nation shows for BBC, while Amberwood is best known for its Kate and Orbie and Hoze Houndz cartoon series.
- 2/25/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Canadian animation producer Amberwood Entertainment said Monday that Ryan Reynolds and Kevin McDonald had agreed to voice characters for Zeroman, a superhero spoof cartoon that already has Leslie Nielsen attached to lend his voice. The Zeroman 2-D cartoon series, set to air in September on Teletoon, Canada's animation specialty channel, will feature Nielsen providing the voice for a bumbling and incompetent, yet successful, superhero character. Nielsen, a longtime business colleague of Amberwood president Sheldon Wiseman, previously voiced characters for Ottawa-based Amberwood's Katie & Orbie and Pumper Pups series.
- 2/10/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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