Economics For Kids: ZDF Studios To Distribute Innovative Animated Series ‘Pipo, Pepa & Pop’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: A show for budding Warren Buffetts is headed to market after ZDF Studios scored the distribution rights to Pipo, Pepa & Pop.
The animated show teaches kids the basics of economics and finance using the principles of brainstorming and teamwork. In keeping with the theme, pioneering economist Adam Smith inspires a recurring character on the series, a Scottish elf who lives in a moneybox.
Pipo and Pepa are siblings and Pop is their dog. The trio have adventures and overcome problems together. Visually, the finance aspects are portrayed with stock market graphs that become the city skyline, percent signs that flutter in the skies turning into butterflies, and different currencies that become blooms of colorful flowers The series was made for Italian pubcaster RAI and has been a hit on its linear and on-demand services.
The show was created by sisters Fiorella Congedo and Maria Elena Congedo and produced by their Congedo CulturArte, a spin-off of Congedo Publishing.
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