HIT Entertainment, one of the world’s leading independent children’s entertainment producers and rights owners announces key worldwide distribution deals for Angelina Ballerina – The Next Steps™.

With a brand new CG look, Angelina Ballerina - The Next Steps has proved so popular that in addition to coproductions in the UK (Nick Jr) and the US (WNET), pre-sales have been confirmed with fourteen major international broadcasters. These include ABC (Australia), Treehouse (Canada), France 5, DKLA (Latin America), Zeppelin NOS (Holland), YLE (Finland), Momo (Taiwan), and DR (Denmark).

Alison Homewood Executive Vice President for Worldwide Programming Distribution at HIT Entertainment commented: "We are incredibly excited to be bringing the beautiful new Angelina to MIPCOM. To have so many pre-sales in place before the show even delivered is a testament to the vibrant, rich world that HIT and SD Entertainment have created. Children everywhere are going to want to go to Camembert Academy!"

Angelina Ballerina - The Next Steps sees the popular mouse move into the world of CG for the first time with 80x12m episodes. The new animation style allows characters to move with more fluidity and showcase new dance techniques including modern, jazz, tap and contemporary.

Angelina Ballerina first appeared in 1983 in books created by Katharine Holabird and Helen Craig. Over six million copies have been sold worldwide with 3.5 million sales in the UK alone. Her global appeal has seen them translated into nineteen different languages.