4Kids Gives Wumblers a Tumble

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Peak Entertainment has licensed the North American broadcast, home-video and merchandising rights to educational children's series The Wumblers to 4Kids Entertainment Inc.

The series, about a Wumbler, Bertrum, and his pal, a Latino snail named Raimundo, was developed by former preschool teacher Laura J. Wellington (Silly Goose Company LLC).

Peak bought the rights to the series from Wellington in 2003.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.