March Entertainment was a Canadian animation studio of digital

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entertainment for

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and the

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. The company's properties include the television series '' Chilly Beach'', ''

Maple Shorts ''Maple Shorts'' is a children's television show produced by March Entertainment, producers of the TV show, '' Chilly Beach''. ''Maple Shorts'' debuted in April 2005 and aired on the CBC Television. ''Maple Shorts'' is hosted by a goose and a sal ...

'', '' Yam Roll'', and '' Dex Hamilton''. Founded as Infopreneur in 1996 by Dan Hawes and Doug Sinclair as a producer of

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, March Entertainment's '' Chilly Beach''

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animation series would be broadcast on

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starting in 2003. The property also yielded two movies, '' The World is Hot Enough'' and ''The Canadian President''. In 2011, the series launched in the U.S. on the

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website

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; the series had also been available on

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. Their series '' Yam Roll'' also made it to Hulu via Catherine Tait's distributor Duopoly Inc, which also released Smiley Guy Studios' ''

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''. In 2007, the company co-produced the series '' Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist'' with Australia's SLR Productions. The company also co-produced ''G2G: Got to Go'', which aired on Australia's

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in September 2008 and before airing on Canada's CBC-TV. In 2009, March produced its first and only animated movie for toymaker

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, entitled ''The Secret of Pirate Island''. The company was in production for a second DVD movie, which has since been scrapped. March animated season 1 of ''

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'', an international co-production with Rainbow S.p.A., broadcaster

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and Lucky Punch. The show, which mixes live action and CGI animation, was the most requested program at 2010s MIPJunior conference. March Entertainment was also responsible for the websites iLaugh and Edge of Toon. The company went into decline in the early 2010s, despite an investment of provincial funds, and was ultimately succeeded by Toonrush. The company's head office was in

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and it had an animation studio located in

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, before closing in 2013.

Works

*'' Chilly Beach'' (2003) *Faireez (2005, distributed with Southern Star Sales) *'' Maple Shorts!'' (2005) *'' The Very Good Adventures of Yam Roll in Happy Kingdom'' (2006) *''Uncle Joe's Cartoon Playhouse'' (2006) *'' Chilly Beach: The World Is Hot Enough'' (2008) *''G2G: Got to Go!'' (2008) *''Pet Squad'' (2010) *'' Chilly Beach: The Canadian President'' (2008) *'' Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist'' (2009) *'' Playmobil: The Secret of Pirate Island'' (2009) *''

'' (2011–12) (season 1 only)

References

External links

Toonrush official website
Canadian animation studios Television production companies of Canada Mass media companies established in 1996 Companies based in Toronto Companies based in Greater Sudbury {{animation-studio-stub