HONG KONG (April 20, 2016) Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE), operator of the largest bouquet of pan-Asian channels dedicated to Asian entertainment, announced today that it has acquired first and exclusive pay TV and over-the-top (OTT) rights in Southeast Asia to three high-quality children’s programs: Domo from Japan (non-exclusive in Thailand and for OTT), Let’s Play with Boomchiki Boom from South Korea (non-exclusive in Malaysia and Brunei) and Our Friend Remy Bear from China. The programs will be shown on CTE’s Miao Mi, a Mandarin edutainment channel created specifically for preschool kids across Asia. All three shows will be offered on the channel in Mandarin and in local languages.
“We are very excited to be bringing Domo, Let’s Play with Boomchiki Boom, and Our Friend Remy Bear to Miao Mi. Each of these shows epitomizes the qualities we are looking for when programming Miao Mi. All three shows are ideal for preschool kids, they are both educational and entertaining, and they possess inherent Asian values and cultures,” said Ofanny Choi, Executive Vice President, TV Networks, Celestial Tiger Entertainment.
Domo, from Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, has been one of the country’s most beloved animated figures. The stop-motion animation series follows the everyday lives of the titular character, a mysterious brown creature with a pure heart and a love for television, as well as his adorable animal friends.
Let’s Play with Boomchiki Boom, produced and distributed by the award-winning Korean animation studio Grafizix, is a rhythmic dancing program designed to help preschoolers with their motor skills development. In the show, Boomki and his Do Re Mi friends show kids how to do stretches, baby yoga and other physical exercises.
Our Friend Remy Bear, produced by China’s Xiongxiaomi Media and distributed by Nanning Fengzhi Entertainment, follows the colorful adventures of Remy and his animal friends, Zhiping the Penguin, Ellie the Baby Elephant and Ray the Little Lion. The show teaches children important life lessons about kindness and camaraderie. Created in 2013, Our Friend Remy Bear has won multiple awards, including the Monkey King Award for the Best Character in an Animated Series at the China International Cartoon and Animation Festival.
Miao Mi is CTE’s Asian kids channel, designed for children between the ages of three to six, and featuring edutainment programs from leading producers of children’s content in China as well as the rest of Asia. The channel is fully dubbed in local languages, but parents have the option to switch to the Mandarin audio track to enhance their kids’ Mandarin learning experience. The only exception is the Miao Mi Classroom time belts, which only feature songs and simple storytelling in Mandarin to promote language-learning.
Miao Mi is currently available in Indonesia and exclusively carried on Indovision and Okevision.
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About Celestial Tiger Entertainment
CELESTIAL TIGER ENTERTAINMENT (CTE) is a leading independent media company dedicated to entertaining audiences in Asia and beyond. The company creates and distributes branded pay television channels and services targeted at Asian consumers.
CTE operates a powerful bouquet of distinct pay television services including: CELESTIAL MOVIES, the premier 24-hour first-run Chinese movie channel in Asia and beyond; CELESTIAL CLASSIC MOVIES, the world’s most-widely distributed Chinese movie channel with an unparalleled array of Chinese movie masterpieces; cHK, a general entertainment channel offering cool, chic, and contemporary celebrity-powered Hong Kong entertainment; KIX, the ultimate destination for action entertainment; MIAO MI, the Mandarin edutainment channel created for preschool kids across Asia; and THRILL, Asia’s only regional horror, thriller and suspense movie channel. All of CTE’s channel brands are available as linear, on-demand and over-the-top services. CTE also produces original production for its bouquet of channels.
Headquartered in Hong Kong, CTE’s majority shareholders are Saban Capital Group, a leading private investment firm specializing in the media, entertainment and communications industries; Celestial Pictures, a diversified Asian entertainment company owned by Astro Overseas Limited; and Lionsgate, the world’s largest independent filmed entertainment studio.
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