- Hopla
Hopla is a
Flemish -Belgian 3D animation cartoon fortoddlers , created byBert Smets in 1999. [Yahoo Business News, "NCircle Entertainment and Bert Smets Productions Enter Into Expansive Partnership", April 9, 2007, http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070409/nym008.html?.v=84] The cartoon features the rabbit Hopla and his friends - the pig Onki, the bear Nina, and the kitten Lola. [VRT News, "Hopla" goes to America", March 21, 2007, http://www.flanderninfo.be/cm/flandersnews.be/Flanders+Today/special+reports/070321_Hopla]In 2000, the show was first aired on
Ketnet , a Flemish television channel. Soon afterwards, it became popular. Currently, the show has been aired in 31 countries (such asBelgium ,Canada ,Finland ,France ,Japan ,Poland , andSouth Korea ). It is expected that the show will be aired in theUnited States soon, as an exclusive multi-year distribution deal between Bert Smets Productions andNCircle Entertainment , a subsidiary ofAlliance Entertainment was signed in 2007.So far, 104 episodes have been produced: there are plans for 26 new titles per year in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. In Belgium alone, Hopla's home, entertainment titles have sold over 300,000 copies and their book-related merchandise has garnered sales close to 700,000.
References
External links
*Hopla Homepage http://www.hopla.tv/
* [http://www.ncircleentertainment.com/Content.aspx?id=NChopla NCircle Entertainment: Buy Hopla DVDs]
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