Melbourne-based production studio BES Animation has acquired world broadcast and digital content rights to self-published picture book series \u2018Dinner Detectives\u2019, with plans to develop the books into a multi-platform TV and digital offering.<\/p>\n
BES Animation, best known for the children\u2019s animated television series Kitty Is Not A Ca<\/em>t, will develop the \u2018Dinner Detective\u2019 books into a 2D animated television series aimed at 4\u20137 year olds, alongside a new interactive app and digital content. Production is set to commence in 2020.<\/p>\n First published in 2017, \u2018Dinner Detectives\u2019 attracted global interest when creators Yves Stening and Nigel Buchanan won Best IP Pitch at MIP Junior in 2018<\/a>. The series follows siblings Clementine and Aksel, who travel back in time and explore the world learning about the history of the food we eat today.<\/p>\n Stening said BES Animation is \u2018the perfect partner to take \u2018Dinner Detectives\u2019 to its next stage of creative development\u2019.<\/p>\n BES Animation founder and director Bruce Kane said: \u2018We are delighted to add \u201cDinner Detectives\u201d to BES\u2019 global development and production slate and look forward to transforming these much loved stories and characters to the screen for a global audience.\u2019<\/p>\n Melbourne-based production studio BES Animation has acquired world broadcast and digital content rights to self-published picture book series \u2018Dinner Detectives\u2019, with plans to develop the books into a multi-platform TV and digital offering. BES Animation, best known for the children\u2019s animated television series Kitty Is Not A Cat, will develop the \u2018Dinner Detective\u2019 books into<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}This news story first appeared in\u00a0<\/em>Books+Publishing<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Books+Publishing\u00a0is Australia\u2019s leading source of print and digital news about the book industry, keeping\u00a0<\/em>subscribers<\/em><\/a>\u00a0up to date with the latest industry news, announcements, job advertisements, events, trends and more.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"