Ultra Kidz to debut Jar Dwellers, Boonie Bears
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Gabriel Miramar-Garcia
| 02 February 2019

Ultra Kidz Hispanic TV network in the US is launching two animated series, based on two of the most popular kids’ programming franchises.

The first features mysterious jar-dwelling creatures, and the other a faceoff between brother bears and a greedy logger bent on attaining wealth by destroying their forest.

Jar Dwellers SOS (Criaturas SOS), follows Sophie and her brother David as they discover and release three incredible creatures that had been trapped in scientific jars for 200 years. But once Ooble, Crunch and Barka are set free, they are immediately pursued by an unfriendly group of jar trackers that want to recapture them. Sophie, David and a secret book written by the late scientist that created the jars might be their only hope.

Boonie Bears: Forest Frenzy (Los Hermanos Boonie: Frenesí en el Bosque) brings the saga of Briar and Bramble to Ultra Kidz. It follows their battle with the nasty logger Vick and his relentless schemes to get rich by plundering the forest. But the brother bears have friends and witty strategies to prevent Vick from achieving his sinister plans.

“Boonie Bears was initially launched in China in 2012 and quickly became the most popular children's show in the country,” said Jesús Piñango, director of TV content strategy at Ultra Kidz parent Olympusat. “It has since been translated into many other languages, including Spanish, and is distributed to 82 countries worldwide.”

Piñango added, “Jar Dwellers, for its part, is also very popular and has even inspired the creation of mobile and tablet educational apps for children.”