Serious Kids secures another major broadcast deal with RAI in Italy
Serious Kids has secured another major broadcast deal with RAI in Italy for both Season 1 and Season 2 of ‘Team Nuggets’. Targeted at 5-8 year olds, the gender neutral comedy series will air on RAI Yoyo and launch as a box set on RaiPlay on May 1st 2026.
Serious Kids also recently announced a deal with ZDF/Kika in Germany and RTVE in Spain and another new deal has just been closed with Midolala for China. All of this adding to the previously announced deals with NRK, SVT, YLE (Swedish service), RUV, Czech TV, RTV Slovenia, RTBF Belgium and RTS Switzerland.
Commissioned by DR from Sparre Production and co-produced with Godo Films for Canal + France, all 91 x 7’ CG animated episodes are ready for delivery. An episode from the first season has just won 1st prize for best short film at the Singapore Film & Script Festival adding to previous wins of the Pulcinella award for Best Animation for Upper Pre-School audiences and landing the runner up prize at the much lauded Prix Jeunesse International Awards.
The series also won both Best Children’s show and Most Innovative New Creation at Danish TV Prisen Awards show in 2024 and first prize at the 2024 Rotterdam Children’s Film Festival as well as being nominated for 12 more around the world.
Serious Kids acquired the worldwide content distribution rights (excl. Nordics and French Speaking Europe) from Sparre Production in 2024 following the case history presentation of the title at APD in Stuttgart.
‘Team Nuggets’ is a highly original CG animated comedy series created by Sparre Production in Denmark. It is a fast paced primary school comedy starring an ambitious young chicken, Karla, and a band of very volatile and diverse classmates. Navigating school life for the first time is a huge deal and emotions run high. Lessons and schoolyard games often spill into chaos which can only be calmed by working out the important stuff; like true friendship and self-control.
DR and Danish publishing house Gyldendal have already produced a series of books based on the characters e.g ‘How to Be a Good Friend’ as well as the school diaries of the key characters. A plush deal has also been signed with MAKI. The recently produced digital game ‘Fantastic Class’ has been short listed for a prize at Kidscreen 2026.
Despite being a brand new IP the show entered the top 10 on Canal + as soon as it was launched and on DR Ramasjang the series has an average 300k screenings per episode (based on a population of 6M). 60% of this number is made up a family co-viewing.
‘Team Nuggets’ was co-financed with the support of CNC, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Haute Savoie, Region Île de La Réunion, Creative Europe MEDIA, SOFICA, Cofiloisirs, Nordisk Film and TV Fund, and the NordVision Fund.
“It is fantastic to have RAI onboard. This yet another key platform we have secured for ‘Team Nuggets’ and we now look to the other major markets to look again at this ultra original series.”
Leila Ouledcheikh, Director of Global Distribution at Serious Kids
“We are so delighted to see our series travel to Italy, Spain and Germany, it is really rewarding to see ‘Team Nuggets’ scoring major broadcast platforms which will assist the roll out of further content, films and more.”
Irene Sparre, CEO of Sparre Production
