The popular animated preschool TV series In the Night Garden, which has sold 750,000 DVDs to date in the United Kingdom, is set for its first DVD release in Canada.
Produced by U.K.’s Ragdoll Productions, the first DVD release will be titled Welcome to the Garden and feature four episodes of the series. The series will be distributed by Nelvana Enterprises under its Treehouse Presents label, and will be distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment Canada with an on-sale date of April 28. Nelvana acquired the Canadian DVD rights from BBC Worldwide America.
The series has a been a huge hit in the U.K. for Ragdoll, which also created the popular Teletubbies series.