PARIS: Cartoon Studio, the newly created animation production company headed by Gerard Clement and based in Southern France, attended MIP for the first time and came away with its first project.
Magic Circus is a 104 x 26 minute pre-school series on the wonderful world of a flying troupe, created by Yvan Delporte, the original animator of the long-running Smurfs.
Magic Circus has caught the interest of two British channels and a German distributor for co-production, and was sold to Spain, Portugal and to HBO for syndication in the U.S.