Teletoon's original cartoon '6TEEN' wins daytime Emmy Award
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Posted on Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 05:56 PM
Teletoon
Fresh TV Inc., an award-winning family entertainment company, won a
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Song – Main Title and
Promo, for their animated tween TV series, 6TEEN. Big winners for
creating the catchy theme song are composers and lyricists Anthony
Vanderburgh and Don Breithaupt of DNA Music Productions.
The Awards were broadcast on the CW Television Network on August 30,
2009 from The Historic Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles.
The popular series was created by Fresh TV Inc. executive producers,
Tom McGillis and Jennifer Pertsch and currently airs throughout the
world including Cartoon Network in the US and TELETOON in Canada.
“The 6TEEN theme song has become a touchstone for an entire generation
of tweens. It’s what the Brady Bunch theme song was for their parents.
During six successful years of 6TEEN, kids have been singing the song
around campfires and at sleepovers around the country.” said Tom
McGillis, President, Fresh TV Inc.
6TEEN is an animated situation comedy set entirely in a gigantic
shopping mall. It’s all about minimum wages and maximum laughs as the
ensemble cast of six 16-year-old friends try to make it through their
first part-time jobs and life as a teen. From stumbling through
relationships to dealing with hideous uniforms, the larger-than-life
mall provides its stars with the perfect venue to spread their wings -
and take total nosedives. The series is distributed internationally by
Nelvana and was funded by TELETOON and the Canadian Television Fund.
6Teen’s opening theme song and main title was produced by Corus
Entertainment’s Nelvana Studio.