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JimJam is an international children's preschool television channel operated by AMC Networks International Central and Northern Europe, which originally launched in Italy on Sky in 2006 and is now available across Europe and Africa.

JimJam was launched on 1 October 2006. In September 2007, HIT Entertainment and Chellomedia (European content division of Liberty Global, currently AMC Networks International) formed a joint venture to run a children's channel. The channel was advertised as international, with plans to start cable and satellite broadcast in Western and Eastern Europe and then expand broadcasting worldwide (outside the UK, Ireland, US and Canada).

The channel was expanded to Central and Eastern Europe in December 2007. By March 2008, JimJam launched in the Netherlands and Switzerland, and continued expansion through MENA on Showtime Arabia and Russia and Bulgaria in July. In November 2008, it launched in Southeast Asia. On 28 November 2008, it launched in Portugal. In January 2010, the channel launched in Israel on Yes,

in 2018, JimJam was rebranded with a new logo and three mascots, Jim, Jam and Star.

Thomas would be one of the first shows to aired on the Central and Eastern Europe feeds, The original Italian feed would only get thomas in June of 2008.

Series premieres

Pan-European feed

Benelux feed

Specials premieres

Pan-European feed

Trivia

  • The episodes always air in blocks of two, consecutively, with a very short JimJam ident between them.
  • All Thomas episodes shown on JimJam have UK title cards, thus there are no credits for foreign dubs.
  • On March 5 2011, A Bad Day for Sir Handel aired in Romania without any narration.
  • The Dutch dubs of the fourteenth and fifteenth series were exclusive to the Dutch JimJam channel.
  • The last six episodes of Series 18 were considered part of Series 19.
  • Series 18 and 19 feature the Polish logo (Tomek i przyjaciele) in all countries and the Engine Roll Call does not feature any on-screen lyrics.

Thomas adverts on JimJam

English

Italian

Hungarian

Russian

Romanian

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