TV Schedules

How has Boblins has been received around the world?

The Boblins first hit the screens in Norway in August 2006.  The colourful group have subsequently enjoyed excellent ratings all over the globe with long term broadcast secured in Australasia, North America, Europe, the Nordics and the United Kingdom. 

Who are your broadcast partners?

France	Canada	United Kingdom
New Zealand	Barbados	Norway
Sweden	Finland	Australia
Romania	Slovenia	Denmark

What do your broadcast partners say about the Boblins?

“TV4 has aired Boblins twice a week since October 2006. We are very happy with the programme and the number of viewers has kept growing throughout the fall. We are looking forward to and are hoping for a long and successful partnership”

Lotta Beck Remnes – Commissioning Editor for Childrens Programmes. TV4 Sweden

"TV 2 has aired Boblins once a week since august 2006,and we are very satisfied with the series' ratings.  Boblins  is an explosion of nice colours and sweet characters which the small kids love, and it is a perfect match with all the other quality series at TV 2 Norway.

TV 2 has now decided to air series 2 and arelooking forward to working with Inspire for many years.  My opinion is that British producers has a very long tradition of delivering high quality series for kids, and that the series works very well for the Norwegian market.  Both the scripts and the animation produced by Inspire GLG is to a very high level’

Beathe Daae – Head of Childrens Programming.  TV2 Norway

I have the luxury of seeing many new animated shows each year, as many producers are anxious to market their home entertainment products under our Treehouse Presents banner. One of the hottest new preschool properties I have come across is Boblins. The characters, storylines etc are perfect for this market…but more importantly, they have the key elements to be a successful global merchandise phenomenon. We are delighted with the exceptional sales growth we are experiencing with the Boblins DVD in Canada. The performance of the property is consistent with our expectations and we are very excited about the future prospects for the entire brand. We see significant upside in overall sales as ancillary merchandise starts to hit retail shelves later this year.

Peter Maule, Vice President, Home Entertainment and Retail Distribution. Corus Entertainment/Nelvana

Boblins was one of the highlights in the launch schedule for TVNZ 6’s Kidzone block for pre-schoolers. All the programming in this block needs to be educational, fun and enjoyable for kids and caregivers - Boblins perfectly fulfils all of these criteria.

Juliet Jensen - Programme Manager TVNZ

Boblins has been part of the successful launch of our weekday morning preschool-programming on DR1. Good storytelling combined with fine animation and the beautiful overall look of the series has made it one of the highest rated in our line-up.

Jakob Stegelmann - Producer/Programme Buyer

Boblins is a favourite in Canada - 26th March, 2008 A favourite amongst Treehouse viewers, the series' colourful and
fanciful characters bring so much joy and laughter to Canadian preschoolers - an experience we are thrilled to be a part of, and Boblins is a great example of the quality programming that parents have come to expect from our network."

Brenda Nietupski, Director of Programming, Treehouse and Discovery Kids Canada.

'Boblins ticks all the boxes for us. We are strongly focusing our output on British born productions, particularly in the pre school arena, and the Boblins bright and colourful world, twinned with great stories is a perfect fit for Wakey Wakey "

Mark Francis - Scheduling and Acquisitions Manager GMTV

Australia ABC terrestrial from 2nd November 2007 to 7th December 2007 stripped daily Monday to Friday at 9.00am.

Boblins screening on ABC2, Australia's digital channel is to be confirmed moving forward after a 5 week stint in July 2007.

Tiji in France are broadcasting at 16:00 daily including weekends.

TV2 Norway: 07:37am every Saturday from 19th August 2007 until 16 December 2007.

Treehouse, Canada: The series will run from 3rd September 2007. Tuesdays: 9:30am and 3:45pm
Thursdays: 9:30am and 3:45pm
Saturdays: 10.30am
Sundays: From 7.00pm Boblins will play back to back for 1 hour.

TV4 Sweden from January 2007 at 6.20am on Saturdays and Sundays

MTV3 Finland commenced broadcast in April 2007. Monday to Friday: 7.00am & 7.45am
Saturday & Sunday: 9.35am
Tuesday: 17.50

TVNZ New Zealand: Boblins will commence its first ever run on TVNZ on 30th September 2007. Running everyday at 6.50am, 10.50am and 2.50pm.

Boblins has been acquired by a number of other major broadcasters for the following territories. Further details coming soon.

Albania
Austria
Barbados
Belgium
Botswana
Croatia
Denmark
Egypt
Iran
Israel
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Maghreb
Monaco
Montenegro
Near and Middle East
Nigeria
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Slovenia
Switzerland
Tunisia