
TORONTO — Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana announced Wednesday its new 3D animated series Agent Binky: Pets of the Universe has been picked up by TF1 in France and WarnerMedia’s Boomerang in the EMEA region.
Presented by redknot, a joint venture between Nelvana and Discovery, Agent Binky: Pets of the Universe (52×11 minutes), will roll out internationally on Discovery Kids in Latin America, plus TF1 and Boomerang, starting from spring 2020. The series already launched on Corus’ Treehouse channel in Canada this past September.
Agent Binky: Pets of the Universe is based on the Kids Can Press (another Corus division) graphic novels, written and illustrated by award-winning author-illustrator Ashley Spires. The animated series follows the adventures of Binky, a house cat with a curious and imaginative mind, and his fellow P.U.R.S.T agents (Pets of the Universe Ready for Space Travel), who are on a mission to protect their human families from aliens, robots and interstellar threats.