Kids & Teens
ATF Online +: Riki Group delivers The Fixies to PTS in Taiwan
PTS has signed a deal with Riki Group to acquire the distribution rights for The Fixies in Taiwan. The agreement secured by the series’s sales agent Play Big was announced during the Asia TV Forum where Riki participates annually to expand its activities in Asia by presenting its projects to local consumers.Taiwan PTS is operated by the Public Television Service Foundation, which is a nonprofit, as an independent public service broadcaster. The series will be broadcasted on the nationwide channel PTS, as well as PTS 3 and PTS Taigi. PTS has taken exclusive Free TV rights.
Fei TIAN, Acquisition Manager, PTS, said : 'We are really pleased to be continuously introducing new episodes of the Fixies to Taiwanese children, as previous seasons have performed strongly for us'.
Anna Mysskaya, Riki Group’s Head of international department, remarked: 'We have already worked with PTS to launch the first season of the project in Taiwan. The Fixies showed good ratings with an audience of 4-9 years old, so we are pleased to announce that the partnership has been extended for two more seasons'.
'We are really pleased to be continuously working with PTS and further build The Fixies presence across Asia', commented PlayBig managing director, Frédéric Puech.
The popular kids’ edutainment CG animated series, which is owned and managed by Riki Group and produced by Aeroplane Production Studio, is now working on a new season. Previous seasons have been picked up in over 160 countries and have totaled over 25 billion views on VOD platforms worldwide. Chinese Tencent Video who had great success with The Fixies brand now invests in the production of the new season. The series will be released simultaneously in Russia and China. In addition, Tencent commissioned Hebei TV to create a new TV sci-fi game show for kids, Fixie Lab.
Riki Group also partners with Korean Educational Broadcasting System and Kakao Kids, POPS Kids and Yeah1 (Vietnam), Now TV and TVB Pearl (Hong Kong and Macao), Awesome TV and Astro in Malaysia, among others.
About Riki Group
Riki Group is a market leader in the Russian and CIS market with its famous Kikoriki, BabyRiki, The Fixies and PINCODE brands showing 100% recognition rate among the family audience in Russia. The company produces over 22hrs of high quality animation every year, including both feature length films and TV series, leads in kids CP market in Russia, runs a publishing house, life action short formats production for YouTube, develops mobile apps and games. The projects broadcast in more than 90 countries around the world and have been translated into 50 languages and dialects.
About PlayBig
France’s PlayBig is a newly launched indie entertainment company specializing in the distribution, development and production of high quality animation kids’ and family content across linear and non-linear platforms.
PlayBig is based in Paris & Lille and is headed up by Planet Nemo’s founder and ex-President, Frédéric Puech.
Frederic is also the founder/producer of Something Big, a Paris based animation service studio which develops & produces animation properties on a work for hire basis.