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version, while the

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version was presented by Nils Bomhoff. The series was produced by

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in association with the

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and with the participation of the Nova Scotia Film Industry Tax Credit, the

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, the Shaw Rocket Fund, the

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, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit and the

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, with the first season being co-produced as a Canadian-German co-production with MotionWorks GMBH and with the support from Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung and MTV Networks Germany. The series originally premiered in Germany on Nickelodeon Germany in February 2010 before it expanded internationally.

Premise

Each episode would revolve around something, which would inspire the host, Jeremie Saunders, to do an art project about the episode's topic. While doing the art project, he would show viewers the steps to do the art project.

Segments

* Make Idea * Art? (1) * Silly What? * Lights Camera Artzooka!/Make Art Idea * Art? (2) * Drawing Idea (Episode Used In Secret Hiding Place, Photos and Celebrating Art) * Paper Bag Movie * An Artzooka! Challenge * Art? (3) * Make Craft Idea * Artzooka Safety Message * Drawing Idea * An Artzooka! Challenge Movie

Broadcast

While some regions broadcast the original Canadian version of the series with Jeremie Saunders (especially in the UK, where it was so massive that the chain HobbyCraft carried the arts and crafts sets they released) dubbed over by local actors, other countries produced their own version of the show like with Germany. The French version of the show, which aired on

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, was hosted by Mark Antoine. A local version for Latin America which aired on

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also exists. Reruns were broadcast in the United States on the

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television network from June 30, 2012 (alongside ''

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'' and ''

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'') to May 31, 2015. Reruns were aired once more from September 28, 2015 to March 24, 2017, then again from January 6, 2018 to March 25, 2018.

References

External links

*{{IMDb title, id=2258863 2010s Canadian children's television series 2010 Canadian television series debuts 2012 Canadian television series endings 2010 German television series debuts 2012 German television series endings Television series about art CBC Kids original programming Canadian English-language television shows Canadian preschool education television series 2010s preschool education television series