Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Denmark's TV 2 Acquires Broadcast Rights To Nickelodeon's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" At MIPTV 2013

The entertainment news website C21Media is reporting the Nickelodeon News that the Danish publicly owned television station TV 2 has picked up the TV broadcast rights to Nickelodeon's brand new CGI-Animated "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" television series. Preben Vridstoft, who is the executive producer/commissioning editor for Denmark's TV 2, acquired the rights to Nick's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" reboot for the channel on Monday 8th April 2013 while attending MIPTV 2013, which is being held in Cannes, France. In an interview with C21Media, Preben Vridstoft mentioned that TV2 has had "Ninja Turtles" ever since the original series in the 1980s:
[...] TV2 children's programming acquisitions executive Preben Vridstoft picked up rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot from Nickelodeon here in Cannes on Monday and is seeking more. “TV2 has had Ninja Turtles ever since the 1980s, when it first came out,[...]
You can read the Nick News article, titled "TV2 overhauls kids’ strategy", in full here on the official C21Media website, c21media.net (paid subscription required).