Chuck Chicken

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Chuck Chicken
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Genre
  • Animation
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Comedy
  • Magical Boy
  • Superhero
Created by
  • Edmund Chan
  • Raye Lee
Written byJoseph Viciana
Directed by
  • ahLoong
  • Chua Chong Tee
Theme music composerCole Rintoul (writer/singer), Siew and Sam Melamed
Opening theme“Chuck Chicken”
Composer Sébastien Pan
Country of originMalaysia
Original languagesEnglish
Malay
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes52
Production
Executive producers
  • Edmund Chan
  • Raye Lee
  • Helen Dong
Running time10-11 mins
Production company Animasia Studio
Original release
Network TV9
ReleaseOctober 5, 2010 (October 5, 2010)
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Chuck Chicken (Kung Fu Chicken in China) is a Malaysian animated television series created by Animasia Studios. The story takes place on a bird-filled island of Rocky Perch, and tells the story of Chuck who turns into "Kung Fu Chicken", providing Kung Fu-style security and protection to the citizens of the island. When Chuck inherits a very special amulet in the shape of a golden egg with amazing powers, he uses it to defeat evil to protect the island of planet bird, which looks like planet Earth but with birds instead of humans).

Contents

The show has 52 episodes and is in Cantonese, English, Bahasa Malaysia, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Bahasa Indonesia, and Thai. Eleven years after its debut, the show was dubbed into Korean for the first time and aired on JEI TV. Originally, 52 episodes were released in 2010, with 11 minutes each for Season 1. It was made possible by the funding provided by the Malaysian Government under the Ministry of Communication and Multimedia, and it took Animasia Studio approximately 18 months for production by 100 Malaysian creative talents. [1] Netflix had also picked up the show and was playing it worldwide. [2] However, this show has been removed from Netflix.

Plot

The series takes place at Rocky Perch, which is home to a lot of birds. The Golden-Egg Securities, the island's no. one service which is run by Chuck Chicken and his team-mates Flick and Wing provide Kung-fu-styled security to the citizens and their valuables by battling against villains like the Ducks, Dr. Mingo and Sinister Emperor to keep their town at peace.

Characters

Powers

Chuck is able to use twelve animal super powers while using the magic egg:

Sinister Emperor is able to use super powers while using the black egg:

Episodes

Collaboration

Animasia Studio have also collaborated with Sasbadi Holdings Berhad to produce Chuck Chicken Books and Games for sale and distribution worldwide. [3] In addition, the books such as Colouring Books and Comic Books will have Augmented Reality (AR) Technology embedded inside. [4]

Current broadcasters

CountryNetworksOfficial Languages
Flag of Malaysia 23px.svg  Malaysia Malay
English
Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore Malay
English
Southeast Asia Asian English
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong TVB USA Cantonese
Flag of India.svg  India Hungama TV Indian English
Hindi
Tamil
Telugu
Flag of Iran.svg  Iran Pouya Channel Persian
Flag of Israel.svg  Israel Junior Channel Hebrew
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal SIC K Portuguese
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China [6] Mandarin Chinese
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Toon-A-Vision Canadian English

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References

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  2. Ramin Zahed “Animasia Announces Multiple Global Sales for Animated Hits” Animation Magazine, 26/11/17
  3. Ainul Ghani "Sasbadi Inks MoU with Animasia for Chuck Chicken's Global Publishing Rights", Kr8tif Express, 10/8/18
  4. Adela Megan Wily "Sasbadi in preliminary deal to give popular TV show a book spin-off", The Edge Markets, 9/8/17
  5. Jennifer Wolfe “Disney Picks Up Malaysia's ‘Chuck Chicken’ for Southeast Asia” Animation World Network, 21/5/15
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