Dive Olly Dive!, from Taffy Ent. and Mike Young Prods., is going into its second season with two new co-producers, Atlantyca Ent. and Studio100. The companies are working with returning co-producers MYP, Germany’s KI.KA and ARD, Telegael of Ireland and China’s GDC to begin production on 26 new half-hour episodes of the environmentally-conscious, animated preschool series.
‘We are delighted with the reaction to Olly, the first show we made at our studio in Wales,’ says Mike Young, co-founder and partner at MYP. ‘We also welcome our new co-production partners on the series. Studio100 is one of the most dynamic entities in Europe today and Atlantyca brings a wonderful creative programming flair, in addition to a far-reaching publishing arm, thus ensuring a great market presence for the property.’
Dive Olly Dive! follows the underwater escapades of Olly and Beth, two young research submarines-in-training who live in a deep-sea research center known as SURF: the Special Underwater Research Facility. Together, they experience the joys and challenges of life in their underwater world, much in the same way that preschoolers explore life in their world.
Created by the Andrew and Ian Ross in the U.K., Dive Olly Dive is distributed worldwide by Taffy Ent. In the U.S. and airs seven days a week on PBS KIDS Sprout. The Emmy-nominated series won the 2008 Parents’ Choice Award and Hugo Television Award (Certificate of Merit), and was nominated for the Prix Jeunesse and Best Animated Series at the 2008 Annecy International Festival of Animated Film.
