Matt's Monsters | |
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Genre | Occult mystery Science fiction comedy Supernatural |
Created by | Jan Van Rijsselberge |
Written by | Thierry Gaudin Yves Coulon Jean-Philippe Robin Carlotta Mastrangelo Nicolas Verpilleux Delphine Dubos Guillaume Mautalent Valentina Mazzola Sebastien Oursel Franck Taillez Alba-Maria Calicchio Frédéric Martin Luca Olivieri Yasmine Piva |
Directed by | Gregory Panaccione |
Voices of | Céline Melloul Karine Pinoteau Emmanuel Gradi Marie Diot Cathy Cerda Patrick Noérie |
Composer | Laurent Aknin |
Country of origin | Netherlands France Italy |
Original languages | Dutch French Italian |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 52 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Jean Pierre-Quenet |
Producers | Clément Calvet Christian Davin Maria Fares Annita Romanelli |
Running time | 12 minutes |
Production companies | Gaumont-Alphanim Rai Fiction Lanterna Magica Europool Jiang Toon Animation Sonicville Cofinova 4 SND |
Original release | |
Network | Rai 2 / Rai Gulp (Italy) M6 (France) Antena 3 / Disney Channel / Clan (Spain) KiKa (Germany) |
Release | May 23, 2008-2014[1] |
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