New York, United States – Big Bad Boo Studios announced that its hit animated series, 1001 Nights, aired for the first time in the United States this January on various Public Broadcast Channels. The company has signed a multi-year contract with the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA), which has over 95 public television station members in 50 states. NETA began airing the programme on 28 January.

The show is airing in over 80 countries on channels such as CBC, Discovery Kids, Global TV Brazil, RTBF, Children’s Channel Israel, TV Jamaica, Al Jazeera Children’s Channel, VRT Belgium and MTV3 Finland.

1001 Nights has been nominated for 13 LEO Awards and won 4. It has also won a Platinum Pixie Award and nominated for Best Comedy Series in the New York Kids Imagination Awards 2013. Most recently, the show has gone to air on major airline entertainment systems such as Qatar Airways. The brand also has associated comic books and licensing and merchandising deals in several territories.

Past stations that have aired Big Bad Boo programmes such as Mixed Nutz include New York’s NYCTV Life, Indiana’s Lakeshore Public Media, Arizona Public Media Channel PBS, WSIU PBS Kids Illinois and South Dakota’s PBS Kids SDPB3, to name a few.

Shabnam Rezaei, President and co-founder of Big Bad Boo said: “We are excited to debut 1001 Nights in the United States. These are classic tales, relevant to the issues that kids deal with today and very appropriate for the public television audience.”

Audience members who miss the television broadcast can play catch up on 1001 Nights in English, French and other languages on the OTT platform Oznoz.