Cartoonito is a pre-school brand owned British terrestrial television network and distributed by Warner Bros. Discovery (formerly Turner Broadcasting System Europe). It is available as a dedicated television channel in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy (as a joint-venture with Mediaset) and Latin America, and airs as a branded block on various Warner Bros. (mainly Boomerang) children's networks across the world, including Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and is a new channel from Cartoon Network.
Cartoonito channels and blocks across the world have aired both Thomas & Friends and All Engines Go.
Broadcast
Thomas & Friends
Italy
The CGI series has been one of the launch programmes on Cartoonito Italy since its launch in August 2011.
United Kingdom and Ireland
In October 2016, Turner Broadcasting System Europe acquired the British pay-rights to the series from longterm broadcaster Nick Jr..[1] The CGI series began airing on Cartoonito in the UK and Ireland on 6 March 2017 at 4pm, airing episodes from Series 19 from the start, and later airing episodes from Series 17 onwards, as well as every CGI-era special.
Other Regions
In March 2022, the block was brought over to Cartoon Network Japan, in-which episodes from the Classic series and CGI series air.
On 1 September 2022, in addition to Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go, the twenty-fourth series also launched with the CEE version of the Cartoonito block on Boomerang CEE.
Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go
United States
On 5 February 2021, Cartoon Network acquired the series for their new Cartoonito preschool block in the United States, which was set to launch in fall 2021. The series premiered on 13 September 2021.
In October 2021, Mattel pre-sold pay broadcast rights to All Engines Go to WarnerMedia in various EMEA regions. They also acquired the pay broadcast rights in Latin America, with the series launched with the rebranded Cartoonito channel in the region in December 2021.
All Engines Go was pulled from the block in December 2023 for unknown reasons.
Other Regions
In other European territories, All Engines Go was a launch program on the Cartoonito block on Boomerang Nordic (Finland, Norway, Sweden) in February 2022, and Cartoon Network MENA (Africa and Greece) in April 2022, while being added to the rebranded blocks on Cartoon Network Arabic and Cartoon Network Turkey in Mid-2022.
In Central and Eastern Europe, the Cartoonito block launched on Boomerang CEE on 1 September 2022, with All Engines Go as one of its launch shows, expanding the series to Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Belgium, Hungary, Germany, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Slovenia.
Airings
2017
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2021
2022
2023
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Trivia
- Cartoonito also aired Thomas & Friends in Italy.
- The block was launched the same day Follow that Flour was first broadcast.
- Following the launch of Cartoonito in Japan, the Brenner era started to run there.
Gallery
References
External Links
- Official Website
- Twitter account
- YouTube channel
- Cartoonito on Wikipedia
- The Cartoon Network Wiki
- Thomas & Friends on the Cartoon Network Wiki
- Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go on the Cartoon Network Wiki
- Cartoon Network/Adult Swim Archives Wiki