Federation Kids & Family Sells K-Pop Tween Series ‘Gangnam Project’ to Key Markets
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent It’s not just Netflix which is cashing in on the K phenomenon. Federation Kids & Family has clinched a brace of first-wave deals with major international broadcasters on “Gangnam Project,” its new K-pop-inspired tween live-action series.
A coming-of-age dramedy, “Gangnam Project” has sold to powerful public broadcasters – just the kind of established clients the market is looking for these days – in France, the Nordics and Australia.
France Televisions, one of Europe’s biggest TV networks, has bought for France, YLE for Finland and ABC for Australia. Sales have been closed since the show’s recent launch on CBC Gem in Canada and CBBC and BBC iPlayer in the U.K.
Created by broadcast network exec turned producer Sarah Haasz (“Step By Step Let’s Dance”), “Gangnam Project” has also closed the Baltics, being picked up by their TV3 Group.
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