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Thursday, February 16, 2023

Regular Nick Updates: Wonder Pets Revival Might Be In Development, Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run Set To Make Its Reentry On Cartoonito Africa And Peacock Kids Orders Two New Animated Series

Nickelodeon might be reviving more older properties

According to a recent United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) trademark filing made by Paramount Global, the parent company of the Nickelodeon brand, has applied to register Wonder Pets: In The City with the USPTO under several NICE classes, including NICE class "41 - Education, entertainment, sporting and cultural services", which is for Goods & Services pertaining to "entertainment services in the nature of continuing program series, featuring live action, comedy and drama provided through cable television, broadcast television, internet, video-on-demand, and through other forms of transmission media; providing online information in the field of entertainment concerning television programs".

Paramount has also applied to register the title under NICE classes 28 for "Games; toys; sports equipment" and 25 for "Clothing; footwear; headgear".

At the moment, not much information is available about Wonder Pets: In The City, however, Nickelodeon is in the midst of reviving iconic preschool properties, including last year's Face's Music Party and two upcoming Dora the Explorer projects for Paramount+.

Wonder Pets! chronicles the adventures of Linny the Guinea Pig, Ming-Ming Duckling, and Turtle Tuck, three classroom pets who in every episode are called upon to save an animal in trouble. Together the Wonder Pets travel in their “Flyboat” to a new location where they use teamwork to help the animal that needs saving.

Insidus Games:
- Transformers
- Pink Panther: Pinkadelic Pursuit
- Looney Tunes
- The Powerpuff Girls: Mojo Jojo A-Go-Go!

More Boomerang coming soon to Cartoonito

During the week, it was reported Warner Bros. Discovery is planning to launch the Cartoonito Channel across Europe combing the Boomerang DNA and turning it into a full fledged preschool and family destination offering creative, fun and entertaining content.

Some of the upcoming content lined up for Cartoonito in the coming month include the epic HBO Max's star attraction Batwheels from DC Comics alongside Bugs Bunny Builders which serves as the second preschool series behind Baby Looney Tunes.

As for Boomerang Movie Stars, that's dead or at least by name with the channel adapting to Cartoonito expect a revised movie block as seen next month we'll be treated to the premiere of Rabbids Invasion: Mission To Mars followed by a rebroadcast of Looney Tunes: On The Run.

Lola Bunny invents a perfume that also turns the person wearing it invisible. But soon, she finds herself on the run with Bugs, a cab driver, from FBI agents and a gang who are seeking her formula.

Regular Nick:
- Boomerang to go dark on the DStv platform next month
- March on Cartoonito
- Disney Junior and Disney+ to debut new Star Wars series in May
Lego Monkie Kid returns this April on Cartoon Network
Da Vinci Kids plans co-viewing future

The streamer has greenlit shows from M2 Animation and Yowza! Animation, as well as renewing M2's Team Mekbots for a second season

Peacock is commissioning two new animated series and renewing a third, continuing its commitment to originals that give its content offering for kids a unique feel.

The US streamer has ordered CG-animated series Tea Town Teddy Bears (26 x 11 minutes) from Thailand’s M2 Animation. Rob Hudnut, Mads Munk and Torsten Jakobsen are executive producers on this series for kids ages four to seven about three teddy bears who love throwing tea parties, playing games and singing with their friends.

Also newly greenlit is Superbuns from Toronto-based Yowza! Animation. This punchy new 2D-animated series based on Diane Kredensor’s same-name kids book is about a bunny whose superpower is unlimited kindness. Kredensor and Heather Walker will serve as executive producers on the 39 x seven-minute project, which is aimed at two- to five-year-olds.

And primed for a second season (39 x seven minutes) on the SVOD platform is M2 Animation’s Team Mekbots, about four kids who save the world by becoming robotic animals.

Video Entertainment:
- Rumour: SuperSport Schools to get a dedicated channel on the DStv platform
- Disney Junior and Disney+ to debut new Star Wars series in May
- Paramount+ set to merge with Showtime
- eVOD has yet to offer linear channels as promised in 2021

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