{"id":9161,"date":"2021-09-23T11:38:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T09:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2021-09-23T11:38:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T09:38:38","slug":"mr-magoo-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/2021\/09\/23\/mr-magoo-season-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Xilam Animation Wreaks Havoc with Mr Magoo Season Two"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>New second season of hit series to be delivered in September 2022, already pre-bought by international broadcasters<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Academy Award\u00ae-nominated French animation studio Xilam Animation is launching a second season of its hit 2D slapstick comedy series <em>Mr Magoo<\/em>, featuring a further 69 x 7\u2019 episodes and three extended-length 21-minute specials. Xilam is currently in production on <em>Mr Magoo<\/em> season two, with the first episode available at MIPCOM 2021 and full delivery scheduled for September 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xilam has already secured pre-sales for the new instalment with France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions, CITV (UK), VRT Ketnet (Belgium), RTS (Switzerland), Radio Canada, and Warner Media for Germany, CEE and Africa. These deals follow the strong ratings of the show\u2019s first season (78 x 7\u2019), which became CITV\u2019s best launch in Q2 2019 with 11.3% market share and the channel\u2019s second most watched programme of the year with 6 million hours viewed. On France 4, M<em>r Magoo<\/em> has generated a 9.8% average market share among kids aged 4-10 since debuting in January 2019 and on Boomerang in Germany, the series was the channel\u2019s best performing show among kids aged 3-5 during Q3 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Morgann Favennec, EVP of Distribution at Xilam Animation, said: \u201c<em>Mr Magoo <\/em>has managed to stumble into the hearts of kids and their families around the world, as demonstrated by the first season\u2019s outstanding ratings and the strong level of early broadcaster commitment to season two. We\u2019re really looking forward to introducing audiences around the world to a brand new instalment of this wonderfully optimistic and heart-warming show, which promises even more entertainment, fun and surprises.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Targeting kids aged 6-10 years, <em>Mr Magoo<\/em> has been adapted by the late Olivier Jean-Marie and Xilam\u2019s Hugo Gittard from John Hubley\u2019s original series, created in 1949. The show\u2019s first season was originally commissioned by France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions. The series follows the lively, kind-hearted and cheerful Mr Magoo, who is always happy to give a helping hand. But beware &#8211; he also causes disasters! Without his glasses, he mistakes his surroundings for other places, gets people mixed up, and wreaks havoc everywhere he goes. All his neighbours have kindly adjusted to his uniqueness\u2026except for one: a megalomaniac hamster by the name of Fizz whose sole goal is to have all of humanity recognize his tremendous genius. He\u2019s determined to leave his mark on history, but somehow Magoo always interferes, forever thwarting Fizz\u2019s crazy plans!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new second season is co-directed by Christophe Pinto and Eric Bastier and will bring audiences more wild pursuits, unbelievable rescues by Mr Cat, fails for Fizz and Weasel, gadgets, and unexpected plot twists. The three special episodes will unveil the character\u2019s origins and show how they all met each other \u2013 taking a look at Mr Magoo and Weasel\u2019s first encounter, how Mr Cat barged into Mr Magoo\u2019s life, and how Weasel and Fizz first clicked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first season is currently available in 15 languages and airs in 160 countries, with additional broadcast partners including: Turner\u2019s Boomerang channel in France, Africa, the Middle East, Israel, Turkey and Nordics, CBS All Access (US), Cartoon Network (Asia), Discovery Kids (Latin America), Super RTL (Germany), SIC K (Portugal), RTVE (Spain), and Discovery and DEA Kids (Italy).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New second season of hit series to be delivered in September 2022, already pre-bought by international broadcasters Academy Award\u00ae-nominated French animation studio Xilam Animation is launching a second season of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19727,"featured_media":9163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2021-en","category-actualites-en","category-106","category-51","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9165,"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions\/9165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}