Xilam Animation Makes Waves with Zig & Sharko Season Four Sales
11 Oktober 2022 - 6:00PM
Business Wire
M6-Gulli, Discovery, DeA kids, Nickelodeon, VRT
and Nova board upcoming fourth season of beloved slapstick comedy
series
Xilam to debut first episode to buyers at
MIPCOM
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Xilam Animation (ISIN Code: FR0004034072, Mnemonic: XIL)
(Paris:XIL), an independent company for the production and
distribution of animated programmes, Academy Award®-nominated, has
secured its first wave of deals for the upcoming fourth season of
its iconic non-dialogue slapstick comedy series Zig & Sharko
(78 x 7’), as the company prepares to debut the first episode to
buyers at MIPCOM. Launching in September 2023, season four has been
acquired by longstanding partner Gulli (France), which has also
renewed its partnership across the previous three seasons.
Additionally, Xilam has sold the new instalment to existing
partners, VRT (Belgium), Discovery (Italy), DeA (Italy),
Nickelodeon (India) and Nova (Israel).
Zig & Sharko continues to generate impressive ratings
internationally, particularly in India where the series resulted in
Nickelodeon becoming the leading children’s channel in its evening
slot, across all demos. In Q2 2022, Zig & Sharko was also the
fourth best performing series among children aged 2-14 years and
outperformed its lead in and lead out shows in all demos in terms
of ratings.
Xilam has also established an extensive audience for Zig &
Sharko on YouTube, where the series has generated 14.2BN lifetime
views, with 8.4M daily global views and 26.7M total subscribers. On
social media, the brand now has 1.1M TikTok followers and 9.3M
views are associated with #zigandsharko, while on Facebook the
series was viewed for 727.4M minutes in 2021.
On the high seas, the beach or an ocean liner, Zig, a hungry
hyena has one thing in mind: dining on Marina, the carefree
mermaid. With help from Bernie, a genius hermit-crab, he comes up
with the zaniest plans to capture her … but that’s forgetting
Sharko, the shark with rippling muscles who will do anything to
protect his mermaid honey! The new fourth season will surprise
audiences, as they watch Zig, Sharko and Bernie make their way back
to their island, accompanied by Marina - who fans will see growing
her very own legs thanks to magical sandals.
Morgann Favennec, EVP Distribution at Xilam Animation,
said: “Zig & Sharko is a core part of Xilam’s legacy for
creating non-dialogue slapstick comedy series that successfully
capture the hearts of multiple generations of fans all around the
world. As we gear up for MIPCOM 2022, it’s fantastic to already
have an array of leading broadcasters on board for Zig &
Sharko’s fourth season, and we’re very much looking forward to
introducing further buyers to the upcoming instalment, which
promises even more hilarious and playful adventures for the show’s
broad and highly engaged international fan base.”
About Xilam As a major player in the animation industry,
Xilam is an integrated studio founded in 1999 that creates,
produces and distributes original programmes in more than 190
countries for children and adults, broadcast on television and on
SVoD (Netflix, Disney+, Amazon, NBC Universal, etc.) and AVoD
(YouTube, Facebook, etc.) platforms. With a global reputation for
creativity and its capacity for innovation, an editorial and
commercial expertise at the forefront of its industry, Xilam is
positioned as a key player in a fast-growing market. Each year,
Xilam, builds on its real successes and capitalises on powerful
historical brands (Oggy and the Cockroaches, Zig & Sharko,
Chicky, etc.) and new brands (Oggy Oggy in the pre-school sector,
Mr. Magoo, Trico, etc.) which are consolidating and expanding a
significant catalogue of more the 2,700 episodes and 3 feature
films including the Oscar-nominated I Lost My Body. Xilam has
unique GCI skills. Xilam employs more than 500 people, including
400 artists, across its studios in Paris, Lyon, Angoulême and
Hô-Chi-Minh in Vietnam. Xilam is listed on Euronext Paris
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