Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Bardel Enterainment Taps Frank Saperstein As Executive Producer

The children's entertainment and media news website Kidscreen is reporting the news in the following article that, through his company Surprise Bag, Emmy-nominated Frank Saperstein, who, among his credits, worked on Nickelodeon's classic original animated series (Nicktoon) "The Ren & Stimpy Show", will work with the Canadian animation and digital media studio Bardel Enterainment, who provides animation production services for many popular Nickelodeon shows, including "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Fanboy & Chum Chum", "Planet Sheen", Nickelodeon's upcoming animated series "Monsters Vs Aliens", and Nick Jr.'s popular animated preschool series "Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!", to create and distribute new proprietary animated productions:
Bardel taps Frank Saperstein as executive producer

Through his company Surprise Bag, Emmy-nominated Frank Saperstein will work with Canadian animation and digital media studio Bardel Enterainment to create and distribute new proprietary animated productions.

Saperstein, who has worked on such properties as Ren & Stimpy and Kong, will serve as Bardel’s executive producer under a non-exclusive partnership agreement.

Prior to launching his own company, Saperstein most recently served as SVP of Family Television at Entertainment One Group. Surprise Bag currently creates, develops, produces and distributes content worldwide.

At the moment, Bardel is co-producting the preschool series Lah Lah's Adventures with Stella Productions in Australia and a primetime animated series entitled Mother Up! with Breakthrough Films and Mass Animation.

Through the partnership with Surprise Bag, Bardel hopes to amplify its creative animation services as well. The studio’s current service contracts include Teenage Mutant Turtles and Monsters Vs Aliens for Nickelodeon, Teen Titans for Warner Bros. and The Alphabet Factory for LeapFrog.

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