Bali (TV series)

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Bali
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Created byMagdalena and Laurent Richard
Starring
  • Nick Chambers
  • Felicity Duncan
  • Jo Lee
  • Juliet Prague
  • Samantha Shaw
Narrated by
Country of origin
  • France
  • Canada
Original languages
  • French
  • English
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes26 (52 segments)
Production
Executive producers
  • Marie-Josee Corbiel
  • Christine Cote
  • Frederic Peuch
Running time11 minutes (segment)
/ 23 minutes (episode)
Production companies
  • PlanetNemo Animation
  • Subsequence Entertainment
Original release
NetworkCanada
Télévision de Radio-Canada
TVOntario
Knowledge Network
France
France 5
Playhouse Disney
Belgium
RTBF
ReleaseSeptember 4, 2006 (2006-09-04) 
February 23, 2008 (2008-02-23)

Bali is a Canadian/French animated television series, based on a series of French children's books by Magdalena Richard and Laurent Richard that were published by Editions Flammarion. It was produced by Paris-based PlanetNemo Animation and Subsequence Entertainment, in association with SRC Radio-Canada, TVOntario, Knowledge Network, France 5, Disney Channel France and RTBF, and with the participation of the Shaw Rocket Fund, the Quebec Film and Television Tax Credit, Telefilm Canada, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, and the Canadian Television Fund (or the Fonds canadien de television in French). PlanetNemo Animation has licensed the television program to more than 20 countries worldwide and has sold U.S. media and merchandising rights. [1]

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The show first premiered in Canada on SRC Radio-Canada in 2006. It was also shown on PBS Kids in the USA in 2010 until 2013. [2] Currently, it is airing on independent TV stations KUEN-TV, WNYE-TV, Semillitas, a Spanish-speaking U.S. television network, and PBS affiliate Arkansas PBS. Episodes are available to stream on Amazon Prime Video, through the PBS Kids subscription service.

Premise

The show follows the adventures of Bali, a modern preschool puppy; his parents; his younger sister Lea; and Kikou, his stuffed animal in a city apartment in New York City.

Characters

Episodes

Each episode consists of two segments:

Season 1 (2006)

  1. Brrr! It's Cold!/Lollipops Everywhere!
  2. I Need A Haircut/Nanou To The Rescue
  3. I'm Not Scared/Need To Keep Going
  4. I'm the Cook/Go Team, Go!
  5. I Want To Be Tall!/We Need to Stay Awake
  6. Vroom, Vroom!/My Little Fish
  7. Searching for Treasure/My Papili's Garden
  8. A Present for Nana/I'm So Hot!

Season 2 (2007)

  1. I Don't Want to Give it Back/Robobear to the Rescue!
  2. I'm Sleeping at Tamara's/I Don't Want New Shoes
  3. A Surprise Adventure/Roll Camera, Action!
  4. It's Wrong to Cheat/Too Many Stories
  5. I'm Not Sharing!/You're Mean
  6. My New Friend Mateo/Come on, Dad, Let's Go, Let's Go!
  7. Splish, Splash, I'm Swimming!/Don't Cry, Tamara!
  8. I'm So Upset/Oh No! I'm Lost

Season 3 (2008)

  1. Look at That, and That, and That!/When I Grow Up
  2. Welcome, Saba!/It Was an Accident!
  3. What a Mess!/But We're Not Tired
  4. Boo!/Quiet, Dad and Lea are Sick!
  5. I Don't Like Parents Arguing/Ow, It Hurts!
  6. Nana and Papi are Lost!/I Want to Race
  7. Old Toys Are Fun!/Yum Yum, It's Dinner Time!
  8. It's A Fun Party!/I'm Not Having Fun
  9. I'm Making New Friends/Wow! It's Not So Easy!
  10. Nooo, I Want To See The Movie!/Yahoo! It's Christmas!

Awards

Bali received the top prize in the animation category at the 2005 MIPCOM Jr. [3] It had won awards at the Prix Gémeaux Awards and Argentina's Cordoba Intl. Animation Festival - ANIMA.

In other media

Books

The book series the television series is based on was written by Magdalena Richard and Laurent Richard, and was published by Editions Flammarion:

Stage show

Bali has had a stage show run in Paris called "Pakita Chante Bali".[ citation needed ]

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References

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  2. Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 348. ISBN   9781476672939.
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