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GUS, THE ITSY BITSY KNIGHT IS ANNOUNCED TO PREMIERE ON TFOU IN SEPTEMBER

8 July 2021

Yann Labasque, director of youth programmes at TF1, has presented on Wednesday, June 30, the line-up of the 2021-2022 season for Tfou.

Tfou will broadcast from September several new animation series that feature a variety of around the worlds of knights, pirates and ghosts, and which, while being part of the action and adventure, give a large place to comedy. The audience will discover the first season of Gus the itsy bitsy knightin 52 episodes of 11 minutes each.

Produced and created by Mikros Animation (formerly Technicolor Animation Productions), the serie is an adaptation of the of the albums by Dankerleroux and Françoise de Guibert (Editions Gulf Stream) and tells about the adventures of Gus, a 7 year-old boy, dreams of becoming the greatest knight in the Kingdom of Karamel.

In this article of Ecran Total magazine, Yann Labasque comments:

The series is set in a fantasy Middle Ages, full of anachronisms, magic and silly, nasty creatures. It is sparkling and very successful.”

To know more, please watch the presentation made by Yann Labasque and the press kit on TF1 Pro website by clicking here.