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Author and naturalist Bradley Trevor Greive will appear as an animated globetrotting wildlife expert on Netflix in October via Kapow Pictures and Mission Control Media’s Adventure Beast.

Produced with the streamer’s unscripted department, the series stars a 2D version of the Penguin Bloom co-author that travels the world, getting into zany misadventures while imparting weird and wonderful nature factoids.

Greive voices the character and is also a writer alongside Kapow co-founder Mark Gravas, who also directs. There are further voice contributions from Danice Cabanela and Josh Zuckerman.

Executive producing are Mission Control Media’s Michael Agbabian and Dwight D. Smith, alongside Gravas, fellow Kapow co-founder Sandra Walters, Greive, and Brian Frange. Brent Burnette is co-executive producer.

The idea originated in 2014, when Gravas made some animated shorts featuring a costumed Greive talking about his animal encounters and lesser-known wildlife facts.

Gravas told If the concept was an opportunity for Kapow,...

TORONTO -- Canadian animation producer Studio B Prods. on Monday said it had sold Yakkity Yak, a co-production with Australian producer Kapow Pictures, to Nickelodeon channels in the United States, Britain, Australia, Latin America and Europe. The deal with Nickelodeon Worldwide will see Yakkity Yak, a 26-episode, half-hour series for 8-to-12-year-olds about an aspiring teenage comedian named Yak, debut on Nickelodeon U.S. and elsaewhere early next year. "We are extremely confident that this show will work for Nickelodeon channels around the world because of its high production values and humor," Kathleen Hricik, executive vp international program enterprises at MTV Networks International, said in a statement. The Canada-Australia co-production is produced in Flash animation and will also air on Teletoon, Canada's cable animation channel. Mark Gravas, co-owner of Sydney-based Kapow Pictures, created the cartoon series, while executive producer Blair Peters led the animation production at Vancouver, British Columbia-based Studio B.