Rainbow S.r.l. Announces Nickelodeon To Start To Show "Winx Club" Season Six From Spring 2014; To Give Sneak Peek Of Sixth Season At MIPTV 2013; Announces New Deals For "Winx Club", "Mia And Me", "PopPixie" And "Huntik"

The children's entertainment and media news website Kidscreen is reporting the Nickelodeon News in the following article that Rainbow S.r.l., the company which owns the "Winx Club" media franchise, has announced that Nickelodeon will start to premiere and show the brand new 26-episode sixth season of the popular animated television series "Winx Club" in Spring 2014.

To celebrate "Winx Club" season 6, Rainbow S.r.l. will be offering attendees and visitors to MIPTV 2013, the annual Spring television market that gathers the entire ecosystem of TV & online content to make deals, to be inspired and to forge new partnerships, which will be held in Cannes, France later this month (April 2013) a special sneak peek of the brand new season of "Winx Club" in Cannes!

Rainbow S.r.l. has also announced that a raft of international broadcasters have signed new deals for the property, including Brazil's SBT (season five), Disney Spain (all five seasons comprising of 130 episodes), and in Asia, Malaysia's NTV7 and Singapore's okto have also snapped up series five along with the theatrical Winx Club movies. Additional "Winx Club" renewals for all seasons include deals with Noga (Isreal), CroNova Tv (Croatia) and Canal Panda (Portugal). Meanwhile, France's Neomobile has also picked up the digital distribution rights for smartphones for "Winx Club" and the boy-skewing spin-off, "Huntik: Secrets and Seekers":

Rainbow inks multiple international broadcast sales


In the lead-up to MIPTV next week, Italian producer, distributor and licensor Rainbow has secured a raft of new TV deals for its series Winx Club, Mia and Me and Huntik.

It will also offer a sneak-peek of the brand new 26-episode sixth season of Winx Club in Cannes. The new season of the CGI-animated series for kids ages four to 12, a co-production with Nickelodeon, is set to air in spring 2014.

International broadcasters signing new deals for the property include Brazil’s SBT (season five), Disney Spain (all five seasons comprising of 130 episodes), and in Asia, Malaysia’s NTV7 and Singapore’s okto have also snapped up season five along with the theatrical Winx Club movies.

Additional Winx Club renewals for all seasons include deals with Noga (Isreal), CroNova Tv (Croatia) and Canal Panda (Portugal). France’s Neomobile has also picked up the digital distribution rights for smartphones for Winx Club and the boy-skewing Huntik.

Rounding out the new deals, Spain’s Clan TVE and Belgium’s RTBF have picked up the girl-targeting fantasy series Mia and Me while Mexico’s Televisa has taken PopPixie and Megamax has acquired Huntik for Eastern Europe.

Tags: Disney Spain, Huntik, Mia and Me, Rainbow, SBT, Winx Club

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Nick stays in the Winx Club

NEWS BRIEF: Nickelodeon is coproducing more episodes of the CGI animated series Winx Club alongisde Italian producer and distributor Rainbow.

Twenty-six new episodes have been greenlit for the toon’s sixth season, which will air in spring 2014. Rainbow has also sold season five to SBT in Brazil, NTV7 in Malaysia and Okto in Singapore, while Disney Spain has recently acquired the entire series, totalling 130 episodes.

C21 reporter
05-04-2013
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GENRES: Animation, Children's
SHOWS: Winx Club
COMPANIES: Nickelodeon
SECTIONS: C21Kids
COUNTRIES: Italy