PorchLight Entertainment

CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING

Overview
Meet our Team
Current Productions
List of all children’s programs

OVERVIEW

PorchLight’s Children’s Programming division produces or co-produces innovative, high quality children’s programs for television, digital and DVD audiences. From the high-concept, Emmy Award winning Tutenstein, to a best-selling collection of LeapFrog DVDs to the classic storytelling of Adventures from The Book of Virtues to the high-tech whimsy of Jay Jay the Jet Plane, PorchLight has produced programs that entertain and capture children’s audiences worldwide.

Since our inception, PorchLight has embraced an eclectic range of talent, artistic style and content. Rather than develop a "house animation look," PorchLight Animation studio is open to multiple creative visions and graphic styles, provided the characters are compelling and the storytelling can be told with humor and emotion.

PorchLight’s productions use a wide variety of innovative styles ranging from CGI animation to 2D animation to various combinations of live action and animation. Recently, PorchLight co-produced ANIMALIA with Animalia Productions in Australia. The series is airing on PBS, BBC, CBC and Network Ten in Australia.

We welcome collaborations and work closely with various content creators including artists, writers, directors, graphic designers, and musicians. Whether a children's book, a comic book, or simply a funny character design, we value creativity from whomever and wherever it may originate.

Meet our Team

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS

Secret Saturdays
Directed by Scott Jeralds
Premiering Fall 2008 on CARTOON NETWORK

Big Foot. The Abominable Snowman. Fiskerton Phantom. These “mythological” beasts are found around the globe and it’s the mission Zak Saturday and his family to protect us from these cryptids and to keep them safe in their habitats. It’s a lifestyle that takes the Saturdays from the heat of the Gobi Desert to the icy darkness of the Marianas Trench, exploring ancient temples and bottomless caves, and tangling with twisted villains like the masked madman V.V. Argost and his half-human/half-giant-spider manservant Munya. All for the sake of things most of us will never even know existed.

Tutenstein: The Movie
Directed by Charlie Grosvenor
Premiering Fall 2008 on DISCOVERY KIDS

Tut, Cleo and Luxor take trip of a lifetime—to ancient Egypt! When Tut is plagued by nightmares concerning his death, he journeys to the past with hopes of stopping his death. But the gang arrives too late, nearly 1000 years after Tut lived. His hopes for the royal treatment are dashed when Cleo is mistaken for Cleopatra, the current Pharaoh of Egypt. With their roles reversed—Cleo playing the arrogant queen while Tut begrudgingly taking the role of her servant—Tut and Cleo’s friendship is challenged. While Cleo lets the crown go to her head, Tut and Luxor discover the Grand Vizier’s plan to take control of the kingdom by getting rid of Cleo! Tut must stop the Grand Vizier and rescue Cleo before she’s sent to the Afterlife. By the time they return to the present, Tut and Cleo learn the importance of true friendship--no matter what the era!

Animalia
Directed by David Scott
Premiering Winter 2008 on PBS, CBC, ANIMANIA, BBC and NETWORK TEN

Inspired by the art and characters of Animalia, Graeme Base’s popular classic children’s book, the ANIMALIA television series presents a spectacular fantasy world in which a collection of talking animals have created their own “civilization.” Two contemporary kids, Zoe and Alex, visit this extraordinary world and experience a series of adventures. Upon their arrival in Animalia, Alex and Zoe soon learn that a series of mysterious events has unfolded, all connected to “The Core,” a large orb at the center of Animalia’s civilization. Located in the Great Library, The Core has imbued all of the animals with the ability to speak, write, and communicate. But now, many of those same skills are disappearing or changing and the very fabric of Animalian civilization is endangered. Zoe and Alex and their new best friends, G’Bubu (a teenaged gorilla) and Iggy (a feisty, heroic iguana), have set about the challenging task of restoring order and harmony to Animalia.

LeapFrog’s A Tad of Christmas Cheer
Directed by Roy Allen Smith
Available from PorchLight Home Entertainment

It’s Christmas Eve and everyone in the Frog family is busy getting ready to celebrate the holidays…and the arrival of a new baby! Tad is more excited than anyone, but all of the attention is being given to the new arrival. Then “a magical fairy god-bug” arrives and takes Tad on a journey through a world in which he never existed. Tad gains a new appreciation and love for everyone in his family. But will he make it home in time for Christmas?

CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS