Apr 02, 2007

Foothill Entertainment Snags Rights to Live-action Puppet Series

SANTA BARBARA, April 2: Foothill Entertainment has secured the worldwide distribution rights, excluding Asia and Australasia, to Studio Bizzaro's live-action puppet series Planet Bizzaro, The World According to Zoomer. Originally conceived as the concept for a series of Public Service announcements, Planet Bizzaro came to life as a set of comic shorts for Nickelodeon, called What Planet Are You From. A year later, it evolved into the current episodic television series Planet Bizzaro, The World According To Zoomer. Created by puppeteer Brian Zimmerman and co-produced by Brad Bowyer, Planet Bizzaro, The World According to Zoomer is targeted at tweens and features a unique combination of live action, miniature backgrounds and state-of-the-art puppetry. The series revolves around the online relationship between a 15-year-old alien boy named Zoomer who lives on a dust-ball planet called Bizzaro 317 light years away and a young Earth girl named Amber. "The show provides an inspiring look at friendship, creative exploration and issues that surround the teenage spirit," says Jo Kavanagh-Payne, the president of Foothill Entertainment. "We're very pleased to have acquired an imaginative show with such loveable characters and original stories." Based in Singapore, Studio Bizzaro creates multimedia entertainment content, in particular original concepts for children's programs, for TV, movies and new media. The company invents stories, scripts, characters, illustrations and character voices for animation, advanced puppetry and hybrid forms of entertainment that fuse puppetry, live action and animation.