Cookie Jar Ent.'s new series, PETER PEPPER'S PET SPECTACULAR has been greenlit for production in 2009. This is the first Canadian-South African animation co-production where the work will not be subcontracted outside of either country. The co-production between Canada's Cookie Jar Ent., a global independent producer of children's entertainment, and Clockwork Zoo, South Africa's biggest animation studio, is scheduled to air on CBC.
This charming animated series highlights the notion that each child is spectacular in his or her own special way. Lessons in theatrics, cooperation, and collaboration are told through the pets as they each perform their special acts on stage. Performance and song add magic and music to each spectacular tale, plus each episode features live action footage of real kids with their pets. CBC has picked up 26 half-hour episodes.
Cookie Jar CEO Michael Hirsh and President and COO Toper Taylor will be reuniting with PETER PEPPER'S PET SPECTACULAR author Betty Paraskevas and illustrator Mickey Paraskevas, who also wrote and illustrated the popular book turned TV series, MAGGIE AND THE FEROCIOUS BEAST.
