Nickelodeon’s Nick Jr. to Premiere All-New Episodes This Fall of Genius Brands International’s Hit Animated Children’s ...
September 21 2020 - 8:30AM
Heading into its third year of airing on
Nickelodeon’s Nick
Jr. channel in the U.S.,
Genius Brands
International (“Genius Brands”) (Nasdaq:GNUS)
announces today the fall premiere of a slate of new episodes of its
flagship animated preschool
series,
Rainbow
Rangers, beginning
October 11, 2020.
The third broadcast season of Rainbow
Rangers, a CGI-animated, action adventure preschool series, will
debut on Nick Jr.’s “Sunday Girls Rule” block at 11:00 a.m. with a
special Halloween-themed episode, and subsequent episodes airing in
the same time-slot through November 22, 2020. The
premiere coincides with the recent Walmart retail launch of the
Rainbow Rangers’ multi-figure action pack from Mattel’s
Fisher-Price.
“In November, we will be heading into our third
year of our broadcast partnership with Nick Jr. for this unique
series that promotes empowerment, diversity, friendship and
adventure,” said Jess
Brinder, Vice President of International
Distribution. “The support from Nick Jr. since the launch
of Rainbow Rangers in 2018 has been amazing, and the
upcoming October premiere dovetails nicely with the launch of our
first toy line from Mattel in Walmart stores.”
Rainbow Rangers is a rescue-based series
that follows the adventures of seven girls who are Earth’s first
responders, protecting people, animals, resources, and the natural
beauty of our world. The series boasts a unique and
highly-accomplished team of creators from the animated motion
picture and television worlds, including Rob
Minkoff (Disney’s The Lion King director), Shane
Morris (Disney’s Frozen co-writer), Tim Mansfield,
and New York Times Bestselling author and Emmy Award-nominated
writer Elise Allen (Dinosaur Train, Lion Guard,
Barbie specials), who serves as head writer and
co-creator. Multiple Emmy Award-winning
director Michael Maliani
directs the series, and Genius Brands' Chairman & CEO and
multiple Emmy Award-winning producer, Andy
Heyward, serves as executive producer.
In addition to Nick Jr. in the U.S., Rainbow
Rangers airs around the world, including Corus Entertainment’s
Treehouse (Canada), Televisa and
BLIM TV (Mexico), Nine
Network (Australia), CCTV and
iQiyi (China), Nickelodeon and
NOGGIN (Latin America),
Cartoonito (Italy), TV2
(Hungary), NOGA (Israel), Mini
Mini (Poland), Canal Panda
(Portugal), Discovery Kids (Middle East), and
Pikaboo (Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Slovenia,
Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina).
About Genius Brands
InternationalGenius Brands International, Inc. (Nasdaq:
GNUS) is a leading global kids media company developing, producing,
marketing and licensing branded children’s entertainment properties
and consumer products for media and retail distribution. The
Company’s award-winning ‘content with a purpose’ portfolio includes
the upcoming Stan Lee’s Superhero Kindergarten, starring Arnold
Schwarzenegger and in partnership with Alibaba; Rainbow Rangers for
Nick Jr.; Llama Llama, starring Jennifer Garner, for Netflix;
award-winning toddler brand Baby Genius; adventure comedy STEM
series Thomas Edison's Secret Lab; and entrepreneurship series
Warren Buffett's Secret Millionaires Club. Through licensing
agreements with leading partners, characters from Genius Brands’ IP
also appear on a wide range of consumer products for the worldwide
retail marketplace. The Company’s new Kartoon Channel! is available
in over 100 million U.S. television households via a broad range of
distribution platforms, including Comcast, Cox, DISH, Amazon Prime,
Sling TV, Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire and more. For additional
information, please visit www.gnusbrands.com.
Forward Looking Statements: Certain statements
in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements"
within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Words such as
"may," "might," "will," "should," "believe," "expect,"
"anticipate," "estimate," "continue," "predict," "forecast,"
"project," "plan," "intend" or similar expressions, or statements
regarding intent, belief, or current expectations, are
forward-looking statements. While the Company believes these
forward-looking statements are reasonable, undue reliance should
not be placed on any such forward-looking statements, which are
based on information available to us on the date of this release.
These forward looking statements are based upon current estimates
and assumptions and are subject to various risks and uncertainties,
including without limitation, our ability to generate revenue or
achieve profitability; our ability to obtain additional financing
on acceptable terms, if at all; our ability to repay our
outstanding debt; the potential issuance of a significant number of
shares to our convertible note holders which will dilute our equity
holders; fluctuations in the results of our operations from period
to period; general economic and financial conditions; our ability
to anticipate changes in popular culture, media and movies, fashion
and technology; competitive pressure from other distributors of
content and within the retail market; our reliance on and
relationships with third-party production and animation studios;
our ability to market and advertise our products; our reliance on
third-parties to promote our products; our ability to keep pace
with technological advances; our ability to protect our
intellectual property and those other risk factors set forth in the
“Risk Factors” section of the Company’s most recent Annual Report
on Form 10-K and in the Company's subsequent filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). Thus, actual
results could be materially different. The Company expressly
disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as
required by law.
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