The Sky Kids original co-produced by
Visionality and Mackinnon & Saunders has been greenlit for a
second season
Thunderbird Entertainment Group Inc. (TSXV:TBRD, OTC:THBRF)
(Thunderbird or the Company) is pleased to announce that
Thunderbird Distribution has acquired global media (excluding the
UK) and consumer products rights to new kids series BooSnoo! (41 x
seven minutes), a Sky Kids original commission. The mixed-media
series — designed to captivate kids through a novel
neurodiverse-friendly approach that features beautiful bespoke
visuals set to music with a calm tone — BooSnoo! is co-produced by
UK-based Visionality and Mackinnon & Saunders. Since debuting
in early 2023 on Sky Kids in the UK, the series received a
greenlight for a second 21-episode season from the broadcaster.
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Visionality principal Julian Bashford drew on his experiences of
being a parent in a family with autism and the toys and methods
that worked to calm and entertain his first son to create BooSnoo!
It’s an incredibly inventive live-action/CG/stop-motion,
dialogue-free series that encourages both neurodiverse and
neurotypical kids ages two and up to sit back and follow the
featured little red ball as it leads an exploration of fantastic
landscapes, machines and fascinating rooms that will surprise and
delight in a calming but never dull manner. BooSnoo! is inspired by
autistic stimming interests such as spinning, mechanics,
predictable tracks, numbers and bold clear colours. Episode moments
are identically timed throughout and can depict joy, beauty, or
just plain fun — and it keeps kids of all kinds engaged.
“BooSnoo! is a special series. There is nothing like it in the
market,” said Richard Goldsmith, Thunderbird President of Global
Distribution & Consumer Products. “And it’s exactly the kind of
property we’re looking to acquire at Thunderbird Distribution. It
has great potential to entertain audiences globally and to develop
into a brand with its toyetic sets and its star, the little red
ball. We applaud Julian for creating, and Sky Kids for
commissioning, a series that has the potential to meet the
programming needs of neurodiverse kids, but also has very wide
appeal to general audiences. Everyone we’ve shown BooSnoo! to finds
it fascinating.”
“The response to BooSnoo! was immediate,” said show creator,
Julian Bashford. “When the first episodes were released, we
received amazing emails from parents on behalf of their children,
explaining how much they enjoy the show. Most interesting to me was
the lack of words in the show, and the space given with the sounds
and the music. It meant that children, including those who speak
very little, can relate to the journey that the little red ball was
taking. In a world of TV filled with noise, words, character
stories and songs, BooSnoo! stands out as a completely original
show for ALL children to enjoy.”
BooSnoo! debuted last week at mipjunior in Cannes, France, and
ranked as the sixth most-watched show among the more than 600
titles contained in the event’s screening library.
ABOUT THUNDERBIRD ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
Thunderbird Entertainment Group is a global award-winning,
full-service multiplatform production, distribution and rights
management company, headquartered in Vancouver, with additional
offices in Los Angeles and Ottawa. Thunderbird creates
award-winning scripted, unscripted, and animated programming for
the world’s leading digital platforms, as well as Canadian and
international broadcasters. The Company develops, produces, and
distributes animated, factual, and scripted content through its
various content arms, including Thunderbird Kids and Family (Atomic
Cartoons), Thunderbird Unscripted (Great Pacific Media) and
Thunderbird Scripted. Productions under the Thunderbird umbrella
include The Last Kids on Earth, Molly of Denali, Highway Thru Hell,
Kim’s Convenience, Reginald the Vampire and Boot Camp. Thunderbird
Distribution and Thunderbird Brands manage global media and
consumer products rights, respectively, for the Company and select
third parties. Thunderbird is on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
at @tbirdent. For more information, visit: www.thunderbird.tv.
ABOUT SKY KIDS
The Sky Kids package is home to over 10,000 episodes of
award-winning kids’ content on demand and a variety of linear
partner channels such as Nick Jr., Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.
The linear channel offers a raft of new Sky original content and
franchise favourites to inspire and entertain kids (age 1-7). All
Sky Kids content is available to watch in safe, child-friendly
environments. Through the Sky Kids app which offers content on
demand, available to all Sky customers with the Sky Kids package,
parents can create personalised age profiles for their children,
alongside a ‘sleep mode’ to moderate screen time, while they watch
content on the go. The Sky Kids package is available for just £6 a
month, for Sky customers with Sky’s signature pack. Members of
streaming service NOW can also enjoy Sky Kids with its £9.99
Entertainment Membership.
ABOUT VISIONALITY
Julian Bashford spent 25 years working in satellite
communications, as the CEO of a satellite communications
manufacturer. He has always been interested in the business and
creativity of children’s TV, despite not being an artist or writer
himself, although he is a musician. Julian setup Visionality to be
a creative hub of new and distinctive new IP development, working
with talented writers, artists and studios such as Studio Liddell
and Mackinnon and Saunders. The aim is to produce show concepts
that challenge the mundane, and push the potential of kids TV on
from the predictable. BooSnoo! is one of a wide portfolio of shows
Julian has now developed solo or with his creative partners, and he
is delighted to launch the BooSnoo! to the international markets
now in 2023.
ABOUT MACKINNON & SAUNDERS
Mackinnon & Saunders Ltd is an award-winning animation
company based in Manchester, England. Established in 1993 by Ian
Mackinnon and Peter Saunders, the company has had an illustrious
career working on a wide variety of projects ranging from short
films to world class feature films. Originally the company
specialised in creating stop-motion puppets for children’s animated
TV, the most famous of which was the global phenomenon, Bob the
Builder. In 1995, the company was approached by Tim Burton to
create characters for his live action/ stop motion feature film,
Mars Attacks. Subsequently, the company worked with Burton on his
animated features The Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie. Other feature
work includes Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox and Guillermo del
Toro’s Oscar-winning Pinocchio. In 2012, the company opened its own
studios providing animation services for such companies as the BBC,
Netflix, NBC Universal, ITV, Warner Bros and ad agency, Saatchi
& Saatchi. Mackinnon & Saunders are proud to have been part
of the team that created Julian Bashford’s groundbreaking TV
series, BooSnoo!.
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which has been prepared by management.
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BooSnoo! having has great potential to entertain audiences globally
and to develop into a brand. Forward-looking statements are
necessarily based on a number of estimates and assumptions that,
while considered reasonable, are subject to known and unknown
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risks that could cause actual results to materially differ from
current expectations is contained in the “Risks and Uncertainty”
section of December 31, 2022 MD&A. The foregoing is not an
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