MoonScoop Group
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The MoonScoop Group is a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 company that creates and publishes animated television series with offices in U.K. and U.S.A.. It was established in 2003. Its predecessors are Antefilms Production, which was created by Christophe Di Sabatino and Benoît Di Sabatino in 1990, and France Animation, the original producers of Les Mondes Engloutis ("Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea
Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea
Note: In some cases the names of characters, places, and things were changed for the English version. The original name appears in parentheses....

") as well as Funbag Animation Studios
Funbag Animation Studios
Funbag Animation Studios is a Canadian animation studio located in Ottawa, Ontario. It is known for Toad Patrol, Watership Down and King....

. Its corporate headquarters are located in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

.

Important people

Christophe Di Sabatino and Benoît Di Sabatino (brothers) are the co-executive chairmen of the Moonscoop Group. Nicolas Atlan and Axel Dauchez are co-CEOs.

Subsidiaries

The Moonscoop Group is made up of numerous subsidiaries:
  • Antefilms Production - Antefilms Production is a French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     company that makes TV shows. It was established by Christophe Di Sabatino and Benoît Di Sabatino in 1990;
  • XANA Post-Production - The XANA Post-Production company is a part of MoonScoop. It does the post-production for their various shows;
  • Taffy Entertainment - Handles worldwide Distribution, Marketing and Consumer Products Licensing for nearly all of the shows made by MoonScoop.
  • Moonscoop Digital Entertainment (formerly known as Queen Bee Interactive) - French developer of interactive applications and broadcast services for Television, Mobile and the Internet.
  • Mike Young Productions
    Mike Young Productions
    Mike Young Productions LLC is an animation studio that produces children's TV series. It is named after co-founder and partner Mike Young, and is part of the Moonscoop Group...

     - Moonscoop owns a controlling stake in this independent animation studio based in Los Angeles and Wales, UK.
  • Kabillion
    Kabillion
    Kabillion is an interactive, multi-platform kids' entertainment channel, owned in part by The MoonScoop Group, REMIX Entertainment Ventures, and Belgium-based Studio 100...

     - the Multi-platform Kids Network which runs kids programming and online global community in 20 million US Cable households and almost 60 million US broadband households, as well as around the world.

Code Lyoko
Code Lyoko
Code Lyoko is a French animated television series created by Thomas Romain and Tania Palumbo. The series centers on boarding school students Jeremie, Ulrich, Yumi, and Odd who travel to the virtual world of Lyoko to fight against multi-agent computer program XANA with Aelita, a being originally...

Code Lyoko
Code Lyoko
Code Lyoko is a French animated television series created by Thomas Romain and Tania Palumbo. The series centers on boarding school students Jeremie, Ulrich, Yumi, and Odd who travel to the virtual world of Lyoko to fight against multi-agent computer program XANA with Aelita, a being originally...

is a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 animated series featuring both conventional animation and computer-generated imagery
Computer-generated imagery
Computer-generated imagery is the application of the field of computer graphics or, more specifically, 3D computer graphics to special effects in art, video games, films, television programs, commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media...

, produced by Antefilms during the first season and MoonScoop during the second, in association with the France 3
France 3
France 3 is the second largest French public television channel and part of the France Télévisions group, which also includes France 2, France 4, France 5, and France Ô....

 television network and Canal J. Code Lyoko is about a group of four boarding school
Boarding school
A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...

 students enrolled at Kadic Junior High School, named Jeremie, Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi. The students try to help a virtual girl named Aelita leave the virtual world of Lyoko (found inside a supercomputer housed in the basement of an abandoned factory near their school), and enter the real world.

A megalomaniac digital entity named Xana, bent on world domination, has taken over the supercomputer in charge of Lyoko. If the group is able to get Aelita to the activated tower(s) out of the more than forty scattered about four of Lyoko's five regions, she can neutralize Xana's attack on the real world; then the supercomputer can reverse time
Time travel
Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...

 to just before the attack, leaving no one except the group to remember any of the events that transpired. To complicate the situation, they must do this while ensuring that their classmates and teachers are not killed (because going back in time cannot bring back those killed by Xana), and deal with the various personality clashes they have with them at the same time.

Hero 108

A long time ago humans and animals lived together in harmony. But a wicked wizard named High Roller controlled 2 animals and tricked the other animals into thinking that humans were their enemies. Chaos reigned until a group of warriors, Lin Chung, Jumpy Ghostface, Mystique Sonia, Commander ApeTrully, Mr. No Hands, and Mighty Ray, had joined forces to end the war.

List of MoonScoop shows

(Note: As Moonscoop was the result of a merger between Antefilms and France Animation, this list consists of programming from both catalogs.)
  • Air Academy
  • Albert le 5ème Mousquetaire
  • Alfred
    Alfred
    Alfred may refer to:*Alfred *Alfred *Alfred the Great , king of Wessex*Alfred Aetheling , son of King Ethelred II of EnglandIn geography:*Lake Alfred, Florida*Alfred, Maine*Alfred , New York...

  • Aquakids
  • Arsène Lupin
    Arsène Lupin
    Arsène Lupin is a fictional character who appears in a book series of detective fiction / crime fiction novels written by French writer Maurice Leblanc, as well as a number of non-canonical sequels and numerous film, television such as Night Hood, stage play and comic book adaptations.- Overview :A...

  • Au Coeur des Toiles
  • The Babaloos On Vacation
  • The Babaloos
    The Babaloos
    The Babaloos is a 1990s animated series produced by Cinar . Most of the male characters were voiced by Bruce Dinsmore-Series:...

  • The Birds
  • C.L.Y.D.E.
  • Chloe's Closet
    Chloe's Closet
    Chloe's Closet is an American animated children's series created by MoonScoop that airs on PBS Kids Sprout since July 12, 2010.-Plot:The adventures of an adorable, lovable, four-year-old girl and her friends and toys go on magical adventures in her closet at her room...

  • Chip et Charly
  • Code Lyoko
    Code Lyoko
    Code Lyoko is a French animated television series created by Thomas Romain and Tania Palumbo. The series centers on boarding school students Jeremie, Ulrich, Yumi, and Odd who travel to the virtual world of Lyoko to fight against multi-agent computer program XANA with Aelita, a being originally...

  • The Christmas Pirates
  • The Jungle Book
    The Jungle Book (TV series)
    The Jungle Book is a 2010 3D CGI animated TV series by DQ Entertainment in association with ZDF Enterprises, Moonscoop, Disney Channel and Universal Studios....

  • Cybergirl
    Cybergirl
    Cybergirl is an Australian children's television series that first screened on Network Ten in Australia. The 26 episode series was created by Jonathan M. Shiff, whose previous series include the BAFTA-award-winning Ocean Girl. Cybergirl has also screened on ABC1 on 6:00am, Thursday and on other...

  • Dr. Dog
    Dr. Dog
    Dr. Dog is a psychedelic rock band from West Grove, Pennsylvania. Its lineup currently consists of Toby Leaman , Scott McMicken , Frank McElroy , Zach Miller , and Eric Slick . Lead vocal duties are shared between Leaman and McMicken, with all members contributing harmonies...

  • En Attendant Noël
  • Fantastic Four (French: Les Quatre Fantastiques)
  • Fred des Cavernes
  • Funky Cops
    Funky Cops
    Funky Cops is a French animated series about two cops in San Francisco during the 1970s. In the US it was licensed by 4Kids Entertainment and aired on the Fox Box but was canceled quickly due to dismal ratings and is now an online exclusive in the US. The rest of the series was later seen online...

  • Garage Kids
    Garage Kids
    Garage Kids is a French animated television pilot that was produced by Antefilms in 2001 in both France and US. It was the original concept for the French animated television series Code Lyoko, which was released in 2003 and 2004 in the US....

    (Pilot of Code Lyoko
    Code Lyoko
    Code Lyoko is a French animated television series created by Thomas Romain and Tania Palumbo. The series centers on boarding school students Jeremie, Ulrich, Yumi, and Odd who travel to the virtual world of Lyoko to fight against multi-agent computer program XANA with Aelita, a being originally...

    )
  • Geronimo Stilton (TV series)
    Geronimo Stilton (TV series)
    Geronimo Stilton is a 2009 television series based on the books of the same name. It is produced by Atlantyca Ent. and MoonScoop Group.It first premiered on September 15, 2009 on Rai 2 in Italy....

  • Horace et Tina
  • Hero: 108
    Hero: 108
    Hero: 108 is an animated television series on Cartoon Network and the Cartoon Network international cable network, and Kabillion OnDemand channel in the United States...

  • Insectoscope
  • The Invisible Man
    The Invisible Man (Cartoon Series)
    The Invisible Man is an animated series from Moonscoop , in co-production with bRb, Screen 21, RAI Fiction, SMEC and with the participation of M6, Disney Television France, Antena 3 and Eurocartoons....

  • The Legend of White Fang
    The Legend Of White Fang
    The Legend of White Fang was a cartoon series created in 1992 by Cinar. Renowned popular Canadiana writer, Pierre Berton, was a history consultant on the series.-Plot:...

  • Les Mondes Engloutis (Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea
    Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea
    Note: In some cases the names of characters, places, and things were changed for the English version. The original name appears in parentheses....

    )
  • Lionelville
  • Little Vampire
  • Mr Roger
  • Night Hood
    Night Hood
    Night Hood was a cartoon series inspired by the Arsène Lupin novels and was produced by Cinar and France Animation S.A. for television audiences in both English and French-speaking nations. It was set in the 1930s...

  • Nobeard The Pirate
  • Nothing But Monsters
  • Patrol 03
  • Pet Alien
    Pet Alien
    Pet Alien is an American computer-animated series produced by Mike Young Productions and Antefilms Productions in 2005. It was created by Jeff Muncy and the episodes are mainly written by Dan Danko and directed by Andrew Young. The series centres around the 13 year old boy, Tommy Cadle, whose light...

    (French: Alién Bazaar)
  • Quick & Flupke
    Quick & Flupke
    Quick & Flupke is a comic book series by Hergé about two street urchins in Brussels named Quick and Flupke...

  • Robinson Sucroe
    Robinson Sucroe
    Robinson Sucroe is a 1994 animated series. It was created by France Animation in France and Cinar in Canada, illegally plagiarized from Claude Robinson's work Les aventures de Robinson Curiosité. The show was a loose adaption of Robinson Crusoe set with a Looney Tunes twist...

  • (Stop) The Smoggies
    The Smoggies
    The Smoggies was a Canadian animated children's television show by Cinar that began airing in 1988. In the United States, the show was aired under the name Stop the Smoggies in 1994 on HBO, and in France, as SOS Polluards. In the french part of the Canada, it was aired under the name Touftoufs et...

  • Tara Duncan
    Tara Duncan
    Tara Duncan is a French novel series written by Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian. The English translation is set for a Spring 2012 publication, and an animated series premiered in France in 2010. The animated series is now premiering in the USA...

  • Titeuf (Tootuff)
  • Toad Patrol (current distributor)
  • The Twisted Whiskers Show
    The Twisted Whiskers Show
    The Twisted Whiskers Show is an American animated series based on the Twisted Whiskers greeting cards created by Terrill Bohlar. It began airing as the first program of the Hasbro/Discovery TV network, The Hub on October 10, 2010...

  • Urmel
  • Vampires, Pirates & Aliens
    Vampires, Pirates & Aliens
    Vampires, Pirates & Aliens was a CITV children's television program based on a the book by Colin Hawkins and Jacqui Hawkins. The story follows the adventures of the vampire known as "the Blods", and features a ship names "The Mad Maggot" including the character "Captain Blunder" and crew.The show...

  • Waiting For Christmas
  • Wheel Squad
    Wheel Squad
    Wheel Squad is an animated television series produced by M6 Metropole, RAI, and France Animation. The show involves four kids who like riding skateboards, mountain bikes, roller skates, and so forth...

  • Zevo-3
    Zevo-3
    Zevo-3 is an French-American animated television series that currently airs on Nicktoons. It is based on three characters that previously appeared in Skechers commercials , although they have been redesigned...

    (with Skechers Entertainment)

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