Nelvana Celebrates a Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Award

6/20/2013

Nelvana Celebrates a Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Award

Hit Nickelodeon series Bubble Guppies takes top honour for Outstanding Preschool Animated Program

Corus Entertainment's Nelvana Studio is celebrating its part in the Daytime Emmy Award win in the category of Outstanding Preschool Animated Program for the second season of Bubble Guppies. The 40th Daytime Entertainment Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which took place Friday evening in downtown Los Angeles, honours television production crafts in the Daytime genre.

Bubble Guppies, now in its third season, is a Nickelodeon series, which also airs on Canada's #1 preschool network Treehouse. The CG-animated preschool series, created by Jonny Belt and Robert Scull, follows a group of diverse preschoolers with colorful fish tails who go on adventures discovering their world.

Corus is proud of its role as the production team behind Bubble Guppies, said Colin Bohm, Managing Director, Nelvana. Nelvana has provided excellent quality animation for Bubble Guppies, combining multiple mediums that blur the lines with CGI, Maya and 2D Toon Boom applications.

This is the seventh Emmy win for the Nelvana Studio and represents the same executive production team that were also recognized for their work on the multiple Emmy award-winning animated series The Backyardigans.

Nelvana is one of the worlds leading international producers and distributors of children's animated and live-action content and is owned by Corus Entertainment Inc. Nelvana is comprised of the Nelvana Studio and Nelvana Enterprises. The Nelvana Studio operates out of a state-of-the-art digital animation production facility in Toronto. Nelvana's library now has well over 3,800 half-hour animated episodes including such well-known properties as Mike the Knight, Babar, Franklin, Max & Ruby, The Backyardigans, Sidekick, Scaredy Squirrel, and live action shows such as Life With Boys. Nelvana's content has aired in over 160 countries and has received over 70 major international program awards including Emmys and Geminis.

Corus Entertainment Inc. is a Canadian-based media and entertainment company. Corus is a market leader in specialty television and radio with additional assets in pay television, television broadcasting, children's book publishing, children's animation and animation software. The Company's multimedia entertainment brands include YTV, Treehouse, Nickelodeon (Canada), ABC Spark, W Network, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network (Canada), CosmoTV, Sundance Channel (Canada), Movie Central, HBO Canada, Nelvana, Kids Can Press, Toon Boom and 37 radio stations including CKNW AM 980, 99.3 The FOX, Country 105, 630 CHED, Q107 and 102.1 the Edge. Corus creates engaging branded entertainment experiences for its audiences across multiple platforms. A publicly traded company, Corus is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (CJR.B). Experience Corus on the web at www.corusent.com.

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Kate Calder

Publicist

Corus Entertainment

416-479-6319

kate.calder@corusent.com

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