The Side Show Christmas 2009 broadcast dates on TELETOON Canada

2009 Broadcast dates on TELETOON Canada – EST.

Saturday, December 19 at 4 pm,
Sunday, December 20 at 1 pm,
Monday, December 21 at 10 am,
Tuesday, December 21 at 5 pm
and Wednesday, December 23 at 8 am.

A SPECTACULAR CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

As Christmas approaches, JASON SHANKS watches his father’s side show hit rock bottom. Jason’s father, SANDWELL, driven to desperate measures, kidnaps Santa Claus and hypnotizes him to be the new headline act. To save Christmas Jason must get Santa back in the sleigh, reconcile with Sandwell, and revolutionize the Most Unbelievable Show On Earth.

The Side Show Christmas was produced by Saskatoon Based Cheshire Smile Animation Inc. in association with Studio B Productions.

Purchase your own copy of The Side Show Christmas DVD online from Amazon.ca

 

The Side Show Christmas – Canadian DVD Release Date – 10 November 2009

DVD Label

The Side Show Christmas is set to be released at major retailers across Canada under the TELETOON Presents Label on 10 November 2009. The Side Show Christmas was produced by Cheshire Smile Animation Inc. and Studio B Productions and is distributed internationally by DECODE Entertainment.

 

The Side Show Christmas – English Broadcast dates on TELETOON

TELETOON will broadcast The Side Show Christmas in Canada this 2008 holiday season at the following times:

Broadcast Premier: Friday, December 12th, at 5 p.m.

Tuesday, December 16th, at 6 p.m.

Saturday, December 20th, at 11 a.m.

Sunday, December 21th, at 4 p.m.

Monday, December 22nd, at 7 a.m.

Monday, December 22nd, at 8:30 p.m.

Please note that all times are Eastern/Pacific. Check your local listings.

 

Side Show Christmas Trailer

The Side Show Christmas – TELETOON’s newest Animated Christmas Special

Santa the star of a Side Show!! But who is going to deliver the Christmas Presents???

French Broadcast Premier 07 December at 5pm EST

English Broadcast Premier 12 December at 5pm EST

 

Side Show Christmas is in the can!!!

Final online and print to tape on the Cheshire Smile Animation digibeta

After a week of trials and tribulations beginning with the botched importation of a digibeta deck from LA and culminating in the mysterious appearance of an additional 3 seconds and thee frames of video content “The Side Show Christmas” has finally wrapped.

We are looking forward to the French Broadcast premier on TELETOON December 7th at 5 pm EST, the English Broadcast premier is on TELETOON on Friday December 12th at 5 pm.

If you live in Saskatoon, you are invited to attend our premier at The Roxy Theatre on Sunday December 14th at 7pm.

 

My closet is full of dead babies…….

I am always in the process of development and producing numerous ideas, all of which are in different states of existence, anywhere from idle entertaiment while sitting on the toilette or walking the dog, to full blown fully, financed productions.

The first time I pitched to Canadian Children’s Broadcasters was at the Banff Television Festival in 2001. I was able to get a meeting with TELETOON, and I pitched a show I was working on called “The Legends Of Wesakechak”. No Luck.

The second time I pitched was also at the Banff Television Festival in 2002. I pitched “Legends of Wesakechak” again as well as a series called “Althea”, and another series called “Mrs. Periwinkles Fun Files”. No dice. They were all gunned down and I personally got quite beat up by the experience. There was one broadcaster in particular who just about made me cry. I have come to the belief that “You know it is a good market when you can leave and not feel like you just got stood up at the High School Dance!!!!”

Since then I pitched numerous other shows before I got my first development deal with TELETOON.

Each one of those projects is a dead baby that is littering the floor of my imagination.

My personal feeling is that broadcasters want to see you stick it out in the industry for quite a while before they will even consider giving you a deal. Even if you had the goodest idea on earth there is a good chance it will tank if it is your first experience with a broadcaster who has never heard of you before. Television is expensive to make and time consuming. I honestly get the feeling that a lot of broadcasters want to get to know you before they will spend any money or time working with you on an idea.

Consequentially, It is important that as a creator of Television you have the ability to walk away from an idea and move on to something new, no matter how much you love it.

Every failed pitch provides another layer of compost for your imagination.

You must take that experience of pitching and use it as an opportunity to develop market intelligence so that you are better able to understand what they are looking for in an idea so that 6 months or 1 year later when you pitch the same broadcaster a new concept, they can see that not only have you developed professionally, you can create good ideas, AND most importantly, you can listen and respond to what they need from an idea to work for their network. I am not saying that you will succeed with that pitch either, but what you will have done is to start building a key relationship with both the network and broadcaster.

So, when you are holding on to that baby and every conceivable broadcaster has said no (except that one eccentric foreign broadcaster who does not have any development money for Canadians, and unfortunately can not trigger anything within the Canadian system, but loves it), there comes a time when you have to decide put it away in the closet and move on to the next pitch.

At the BBQ wrap up to the 2002 Banff Television Festival, I was feeling kind of dejected, and had the opportunity to speak with Chris Bartleman of Studio B, whom I had to pitched earlier that day.

His advise was to just keep pitching.

He was right.

 

Side Show Christmas Peeks – I

The Side Show Christmas is on the verge of animation production. Finally!!! Here are some pics from scenes that have been posed out in Flash.

A scene from The Side Show Christmas

It takes so long to move an animated show through a development and production pipeline that it is really exciting to start seeing it come together. I can’t wait to see what some of these shots look like when they are moving.

 

CHESHIRE SMILE ANIMATION AND STUDIO B PRODUCTIONS TEAM UP TO PRODUCE 1 HOUR ANIMATED CHRISTMAS SPECIAL FOR TELETOON.

For Immediate Release

CHESHIRE SMILE ANIMATION AND STUDIO B PRODUCTIONS TEAM UP TO PRODUCE 1 HOUR ANIMATED CHRISTMAS SPECIAL FOR TELETOON.

Television movie’s development, pre-production and post-production at Cheshire Smile Animation’s new Saskatoon Animation Studio, to be animated in British Columbia at Studio B Productions.

24 March 2008 – (Saskatoon, SK) Producers Cheshire Smile Animation and Studio B Productions announce the beginning of production on The Side Show Christmas, an animated Christmas special following The Most Unbelievable Show on Earth, a Side Show facing foreclosure on Christmas Day. Written by Jeff Martel and Directed by Tim Tyler (The writer/director team from A Fairy Tale Christmas, 2005), The Side Show Christmas will be in production from January – September 2008 in Saskatoon and Vancouver. The Side Show Christmas will be broadcast on Teletoon Christmas 2008.

The production is executive produced by Blair Peters and Chris Bartleman of Studio B Production and is produced by Tim Tyler of Cheshire Smile Animation.

“We are thrilled to be producing The Side Show Christmas in Saskatchewan and British Columbia” says producer Tim Tyler of Cheshire Smile Animation, “our partnership with Teletoon, Canada’s Animation Station, and Studio B Productions, a world leader in the production of quality children’s television, represents a significant opportunity for the evolution of the animation industry here in Saskatchewan.”

When Sandwell Shanks, the owner of The Most Unbelievable Show On Earth, hypnotizes Santa, turning him into the star of a wildly popular Side Show attraction to stave off foreclosure by the Bank on Christmas Day, it is up to his son Jason, with a little help from his friends at the Side Show and North Pole, to save Christmas and his fathers beloved Side Show. The Side Show Christmas is a story about family, friendship, and what it really means to give in these modern times

“This is an exciting project for Studio B,” states Blair Peters of Studio B Productions, “The Side Show Christmas promises to be a great success, as already demonstrated by the commitment from TELETOON. We are delighted to add this to our 2008 production slate, alongside Kid vs. Kat and Martha Speaks.”

Established in 2000, Cheshire Smile Animation is an award winning animation and interactive production studio located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Cheshire Smile Animation specializes in animation development, production and management services for the creation Broadcast Television and Interactive Media. The company website is http://www.cheshiresmile.com.

Colin Murdock and Cathy Weseluck perform during the recording of The Side Show Christmas at Dick and Rogers in Vancouver BC.

The Side Show Christmas is produced in association with Teletoon, with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund License Fee Program, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit Program, the Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit Program, and the British Columbia Production Service Tax Credit Program. The Side Show Christmas was developed with the assistance of SaskFilm and the CTV Saskatchewan Program Development Fund.

About Studio B Productions Inc.
Headquartered in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Studio B Productions Inc., a production subsidiary of DHX Media Ltd., is a leader in the field of kids’ entertainment. Studio B is the producer of such popular and award-winning properties as Ricky Sprocket – Showbiz Boy (seen on TELETOON and Nickelodeon worldwide), Being Ian, The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers!, Class of the Titans and George of the Jungle®, a co-production with Classic Media, Inc. on Cartoon Network U.S. In addition, Studio B will launch two new properties in 2008, Kid vs. Kat, an original series with YTV and Jetix Europe and Martha Speaks, a co-production with WGBH Boston. For more information, please visit http://www.studiobproductions.com

About DHX Media Ltd.
DHX Media Ltd. is a leading international producer and distributor of film and television programming and interactive content with an emphasis on children, family and youth markets. DHX Media Ltd. shares are listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange, AIM and the Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX. In addition to Studio B, DHX Media’s other production companies, Decode Entertainment and Halifax Film, are the producers or co-producers of 14 original television series and theatrical releases currently commissioned for production and maintain a growing library of over 1,750 half-hours of mostly children and youth-oriented television productions. DECODE Enterprises is the distribution subsidiary of DHX Media Ltd. It handles programme sales for third party producers and for DHX subsidiaries DECODE Entertainment, Halifax Film and Studio B Productions. http://www.dhxmedia.com.

For more information about The Side Show Christmas, contact Tim Tyler, Producer, Cheshire Smile Animation Inc., 306-652-2102 or by email tim@cheshiresmile.com

 

Exciting times for Cheshire Smile Animation in 2008

Well it is official, Cheshire Smile Animation is on the grow in 2008. After working away slugging, it out in producer / director Tim Tyler’s home office (which remains the official world HQ) for part of 2006 and and all of 2007, Cheshire Smile Animation Inc. has set up a new studio for the production of “Side Show Christmas”.

“Side Show Christmas” is a one hour special that will be broadcast in Canada on Teletoon Christmas 2008. The show is written by Saskatchewan writer Jeff Martel and will be produced in Saskatchewan by Cheshire Smile Animation Inc. and animated in British Columbia by Studio B Productions. Blair Peters and Chris Bartleman are Executive Producing.

Animation design is currently underway and is being split between Studio B and Cheshire Smile. I will direct the production of the boards and animatic here in Saskatchewan. The show will then move out to Studio B for animation production in Flash, and then will return to Saskatchewan for Audio and Video post production.

This production was the result of a pitch that was delivered to Teletoon initially at the Banff World Television Festival in 2006 and has been developed in partnership with Teletoon, SaskFilm, SCN and the CTV program development fund to create an original story with vibrant characters.

 

Side Show Christmas – Animation Designs VI

Things have really been hopping for me in the last little while, so I have not had too much time to write any posts.

We are in the final phases of putting together the financing and production deal for “The Side Show Christmas”. It is very exciting right now, if everything goes according to plan it will be produced in 2008 and for Broadcast on Teletoon in English and French, Christmas 2008. More details to follow soon.

Thanks to everyone who has worked on this to date, your great efforts have helped to visualize and make the story real for our production partners.

This is a concept design for Santa’s Workshop.

This is a concept design for the Performers Lounge, or Green Room back stage at the Side Show.