{"id":6950,"date":"2015-11-10T10:23:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6950"},"modified":"2015-11-10T10:23:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:23:46","slug":"amazon-picks-up-the-kicks-woo-hoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/10\/amazon-picks-up-the-kicks-woo-hoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Picks Up THE KICKS, Woo-hoo!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

from VARIETY<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Amazon Picks Up \u2018Shaun the Sheep\u2019 Special, Greenlights 3 Kids\u2019 Series<\/h1>\n

Original shows ‘Dino Dana,’ ‘The Kicks’ and ‘Lost in Oz’ coming to Prime in 2016<\/h2>\n

Todd Spangler<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0NY Digital Editor<\/p>\n

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Amazon is tapping more tyke TV: The company has licensed a \u201cShaun the Sheep<\/a>\u201d special exclusively for the U.S. and ordered three kids\u2019 series \u2014 \u201cDino Dana<\/a>,\u201d \u201cThe Kicks<\/a>\u201d and \u201cLost in Oz<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aardman Animations\u2019 half-hour \u201cShaun the Sheep: The Farmer\u2019s Llamas\u201d will debut for Prime members in the U.S. on Nov. 13. The three other series will bow on Prime next year in the U.S., U.K., Germany and Austria.<\/p>\n

In \u201cThe Kicks,\u201d Devin Burke (played by newcomer Sixx Orange) was the star player on her soccer team back home until her family moved to California midway through the school year \u2014 and she has to rally her new team to victory. Based on the books by Alex Morgan, Olympic soccer gold medalist and current U.S. Women\u2019s National Team soccer player. \u201cThe Kicks\u201d is executive produced by Full Fathom Five\u2019s novelist James Frey and Todd Cohen, as well as Andrew Orenstein (\u201cMalcolm in the Middle\u201d).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re excited to offer our Prime members a beautifully reimagined world in our first original kids 6-to-11 animated series (\u2018Lost in Oz\u2019) and bring to the screen Alex Morgan\u2019s successful book series with an inspirational role model at the core,\u201d said Tara Sorensen, head of kids programming at\u00a0Amazon Studios<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cAardman and Sinking Ship are award-winning\u00a0producers<\/a>\u00a0and we\u2019re excited to debut \u2018Dino Dana\u2019 and \u2018Shaun the Sheep\u2019 on Prime Video.\u201d<\/p>\n

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