Nelvana Announces New Broadcast Deals for Trucktown and Mike the Knight

Popular preschool shows to air in Latin America and Quebec

Trucktown L-R: Dan, Pete, Max and Jack

(Toronto, Canada) Corus Entertainment's Nelvana announced today it has signed broadcast deals with Discovery Latin America and Soci t Radio-Canada (SRC) in Canada for two seasons of the rough and tumble animated preschool series, Trucktown as well as the third season of Mike the Knight and its adventure specials.

Discovery Latin America will introduce Trucktown (80 x 11 minutes) to Latin American audiences for the first time on Discovery Kids. Additionally, Discovery Latin America has picked up the third season of Mike the Knight as well as the second 60-minute special, Mike's Bravest Mission.

In Canada, English networks have been following along with Trucktown's characters since 2014 but now SRC will bring Trucktown to French Canadian audiences in Quebec along with the third season of Mike the Knight and both 60-minute specials, Journey to Dragon Mountain and Mike's Bravest Mission.

About Nelvana

Nelvana is a world-leading international producer and distributor of children's animated and live-action content. Nelvana produces a stable of award-winning and globally renowned brands that focus on comedies, preschool and boys action series and ancillary consumer products programs. Nelvana's content airs on Corus Entertainment's kids channels in Canada and in over 160 countries around the world. The Nelvana library has well over 4,000 episodes of programming and has received over 70 major international program awards including Emmys and Geminis. Visit the Nelvana website at www.nelvana.com.

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For further information, please contact:

Kate Calder

Publicist, Corus Entertainment

416.479.6319

kate.calder@corusent.com

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