London-based Meta Media Entertainment has signed several new distribution deals in Europe for the first season of animated series Rookie Robot Explores the World.

Norway’s NRK and ERR in Estonia have just picked up the preschool show (26 x three minutes), along with Spanish/Portugese VOD platform Filmin. These deals follow on the heels of sales to ORF and Flimmit in Austria last August.

Sine Lege Film and Leiss Postproduction, both based in Vienna, co-produce the non-dialogue series starring a curious robot whose adventures range from helping a gruff lion find his roar, to collecting plastic bags to clean up the environment. Its character designs are based on original children’s line drawings.

Rookie Robot season one premiered in 2021 on Daekyo TV (South Korea), and a second season (26 x three minutes) is currently in production, with the first 13 episodes scheduled to deliver in June, followed by the rest in December. 

Worldwide distributor Meta Media will be pitching the show’s second season at MIPTV, Annecy and Animation Production Days, which takes place next month in Stuttgart, Germany. The company took over the sales remit from Austria’s ORF Enterprises in July 2022.