Instant Star Returns To Latin America
Big news everyone! Instant Star, our favorite show with our girl as the star, makes its way to Latin America on the channel Boomerang! As the article says it will be dubbed over in Spanish and they say it will be a huge success with their teenage audience. Also of importance is that it makes its return in March, which should line up well with Alexz’s Voodoo release.
UPDATE: Thanks to BurnOutBrighter we can tell you when Instant Star will premiere and where!
Instant Star
Boomerang LA
Premiere date: Wed. March 3rd 20:00 (Central)
Source
Lat Am sale for teen drama Instant StarAll four seasons of Instant Star, the Canadian teen drama about a songwriter dealing with overnight success, have been licensed to a pan-regional Latin American broadcaster, Echo Bridge Entertainment has confirmed.
Some 52 half-hours of the show will be dubbed into Spanish and will air on Boomerang, a teen channel owned and operated by Turner Broadcasting System Latin America. The show makes its debut in March this year.
“We anticipate that the universal appeal of the series along, with high quality production values and intelligent character-driven storylines, to be a huge success with our teenage audience,” said Vicki Zambrano, channel director of Boomerang Latin America.
The series stars Gemini-winner Alexz Johnson, who later signed a recording deal with Capitol Records after the success of the series soundtracks in the US and its airing on MTV’s Teen Nick.
Echo Bridge has previously licensed Instant Star to Poland’s Canal+ Cyfrowy, France’s Canal J, Spain’s Antena 3, Israel’s Noga Communications and MTV Networks Spain. CTV in Canada originally commissioned the series from Epitome Pictures.
21 Jan 2010
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There’s a bit more to this story as well, but I’m not in the place to tell it. This time just reporting on a big victory for us and Alexz, since the fan she gains from this show will, as the article says, simply add to her universal appeal.
