Discovery Kids Latin America licenses Nature Cat
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Gabriel Miramar-Garcia
| 15 February 2017

9 Story Media Group has landed a major coup in a licensing deal with Discovery Kids Latin America for its children’s series Nature Cat.

Aimed at children three to eight-year-olds, Nature Cat helps children relate to and engage with the natural world. Nature Cat can’t wait to get outside for a day of nature excursions and bravery, but there’s one problem: he’s a house cat with no instincts for nature. With the help of his animal friends, Nature Cat embarks on action-packed adventures that include exciting missions full of investigation, ‘aha’ discovery moments and humour, all while inspiring children to go outside and play.

Created by the creative team at Spiffy Pictures and co-produced by Spiffy Pictures and WTTW Chicago, 9 Story handles international distribution and consumer products outside of the US, while HiHat Media handles brand licensing within the US. The series was nominated for a 2016 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in an Animation Program as well as a Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming.

Nature Cat already runs on PBS KIDS in the US and on Family CHRGD in Canada. Internationally, the series has been previously licensed to SVT (Sweden), TG4 (Ireland), SIC (Portugal), Canal Panda (Spain), AMC Networks (Spain), Nick Jr (Italy) via Funwood Media, Cineplex (Thailand), Discovery Asia (Indian Subcontinent), Mediacorp (Singapore), E Junior (Middle East), and Hop TV (Israel).

Discovery Kids also airs 9 Story’s Wild Kratts and Peg + Cat.