Spin Master broadens the international footprint of three series

Vida the Vet, Unicorn Academy and Bakugan are traveling to new platforms in France, Sweden, Canada and beyond.
December 7, 2023

Spin Master Entertainment has signed a raft of new sales for three of its latest animated series. 

France 5 and Gallic streamer Okoo have booked an appointment to roll out Vida the Vet (52 x 11 minutes, pictured) in Q2 2024, with Sweden’s SVT on deck to follow suit next September.

This 2D-animated preschool series about a young animal doctor is slated to launch this month on DR TV (Denmark), Hop! (Israel) and Corus-owned Treehouse and StackTV in Canada, followed by a January rollout in the UK on CBeebies and BBC iPlayer. Netflix (US, Germany, Austria and Switzerland) and Finland’s YLE are next up in March and April respectively.

Super RTL (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) will start airing Unicorn Academy (eight x 22 minutes) next November 2024. This book-based fantasy franchise—which encompasses the series and a 72-minute movie—launched globally on Netflix last month, following the film’s premiere on Roblox in September. And Canada’s CBC and CBC Gem are planning to roll it out sometime this winter.

Aimed at six to nines, Unicorn Academy is already generating strong viewership numbers across the board, spending three weeks on Netflix’s top-10 list of most-watched English shows and racking up more than 33 million collective views on its YouTube channel (75,000 subscribers). Building on this momentum, Spin Master is also prepping consumer products and a branded digital game to launch next year.

Finally, the revamped Bakugan series has been picked up by Cartoon Network (Central Eastern Europe and LatAm), Pop (UK), Super RTL (Germany), RTVE Clan (Spain) and 9Go! (Australia). Targeting seven- to 11-year-olds, this 26 x 22-minute toon debuted in September on Netflix (US, Canada, Australia, Middle East and the Nordics), shortly before its US linear launch on Disney XD. Like Unicorn Academy, the show took a unique Roblox-first route to market, with two episodes dropping on the platform each month before its TV rollout. 

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