Disney Junior Canada has brokered a deal with Endemol for the first two seasons of the preschool series Bananas in Pyjamas.
The first of the 156 CGI-animated episodes purchased will air on March 2 and Disney Junior Canada will continue to air new episodes in its Saturday morning time slot.
Bananas in Pyjamas, based on the early 1990’s series of the same name, is produced by Southern Star Entertainment and Southern Star Singapore for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and first debuted in May 2011. The series will also air in Belgium (VTMK Zoom), Norway (TV2), Latin America (Discovery Kids & Discovery Familia) and the US (Netflix).