Home      Discussion      Topics      Dictionary      Almanac
Signup       Login
Canal Panda

Canal Panda

Overview
Canal Panda is a Portuguese
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east...

 cable
Cable television
Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required...

 television channel
Television channel
A television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and 59.75 MHz...

 dedicated to children's programming
Children's television series
Children's television series are television programmes designed for, and marketed to children, normally broadcast during the morning and afternoon. They can sometimes run in the early evening, for the children that go to school...

, mostly animated series. The channel was founded in 1996 as Panda Club in Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though España , Estado español and Nación española are used interchangeably...

 and Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east...

, but the name was changed to Canal Panda in 1997. In 2000, the channel left Spain, thus concentrating efforts on the Portuguese market.
Discussion
Ask a question about 'Canal Panda'
Start a new discussion about 'Canal Panda'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum
 
Encyclopedia
Canal Panda is a Portuguese
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east...

 cable
Cable television
Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required...

 television channel
Television channel
A television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and 59.75 MHz...

 dedicated to children's programming
Children's television series
Children's television series are television programmes designed for, and marketed to children, normally broadcast during the morning and afternoon. They can sometimes run in the early evening, for the children that go to school...

, mostly animated series. The channel was founded in 1996 as Panda Club in Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though España , Estado español and Nación española are used interchangeably...

 and Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east...

, but the name was changed to Canal Panda in 1997. In 2000, the channel left Spain, thus concentrating efforts on the Portuguese market.

Canal Panda is owned by Multicanal, which in turn is owned by Liberty Global.

For their tenth anniversary in 2006, Canal Panda released a CD featuring Ilona Mitrecey
Ilona Mitrecey
Ilona Mitrecey is a teenage French singer.-Biography:She became famous in France after the release of her hit single, "Un Monde parfait" , a high-energy techno song which had already been released in Italy in March 2004 under the name 'Très Bien featuring Ilona', on February 28 2005...

, D'ZRT
D'ZRT
D'ZRT was a Portuguese boy band consisting of Paulo Vintém, Angélico Vieira, Vítor Fonseca and Edmundo Vieira.The band was created when TVI cast a band for Morangos com Açucar. The four members portrayed Tope, David, Zé Milho and Ruca. Ruca already had musical experience as a contestant on Operação...

 and others, followed by another release in 2007.

Children and teens' shows


Cartoons:
  • Atomic Betty
    Atomic Betty
    Atomic Betty is a Canadian animated television series produced by Atomic Cartoons, Breakthrough Films & Television, and Tele Images Kids. Additional funding for production is provided by Teletoon in Canada and Métropole 6 and Télétoon in France....

  • Being Ian
    Being Ian
    Being Ian is a Canadian animated series, produced by Studio B Productions, Corus Entertainment and Nelvana, focusing on the young Ian Kelley, who is 12, who aspires to become a filmmaker....

  • Bruno the Kid
    Bruno the Kid
    Bruno the Kid is an animated series produced in 1996 and starring Bruce Willis as the voice of an 11-year old boy who becomes a top spy for a secret espionage organization...

  • Caillou
    Caillou
    Caillou is a children's television show based on the books by Christine L'Heureux and illustrator Hélène Desputeaux. Many of the stories in the animated version begin with a grandmother introducing the story to her grandchildren, then reading the story out of the book...

  • Charley and Mimmo
    Charley and Mimmo
    Charley and Mimmo is a Canadian animated Children's Series from Quebec that currently airs on YTV.- Plot :Charley and Mimmo consists of a typical family in a suburban town. The son, Charley , are the main characters...

  • Class of the Titans
    Class of the Titans
    Class of the Titans is a Canadian animated television series created by Studio B Productions and Nelvana. It premiered on December 31, 2005 at 5PM ET/PT on Teletoon with a special 90-minute presentation of the first three episodes. Currently the series airs in the United States on qubo.The series...

  • Dive, Olly, Dive
  • Fantaghirò
    Fantaghirò (TV series)
    Fantaghirò is a 1999 Spanish animated television series that is based on the Italian fantasy movie series Fantaghirò.The series was created by BRB Internacional with animation by Colorland Animation Production, with 26 episodes produced in all. The series is different from the films in that it is...

  • Huntik
  • Garfield and Friends
    Garfield and Friends
    Garfield and Friends is an American animated television series based on the comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis. The show was produced by Film Roman, in association with United Feature Syndicate and Paws, Inc., and ran on CBS Saturday mornings from 1988 to 1994, and on Nickelodeon from 1997 to 2000...

  • Grimmy
    Grimmy
    Mother Goose and Grimm, also known as Grimmy for the second season, is an American animated television series that premiered September 14, 1991, on CBS. The show features the characters of Mike Peters's comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm...

  • Inspector Gadget
    Inspector Gadget
    Inspector Gadget is an animated television series about a clumsy, absent-minded and oblivious detective, Inspector Gadget, who is a human being with various bionic "gadgets" built into his anatomy. Gadget's main nemesis is the mysterious Dr. Claw, leader of an evil organization known as MAD...

  • Gadget and the Gadgetinis
    Gadget and the Gadgetinis
    Gadget and the Gadgetinis is a spinoff of the classic series Inspector Gadget, developed by DiC in cooperation with Haim Saban's SIP Animation and produced from 2001 to 2002. There are 52 episodes.-Plot:...

  • LazyTown
    LazyTown
    LazyTown is an Icelandic children's television program that features a cast and crew from Iceland, the United Kingdom and the United States. It has aired on Nick Jr., YTV, BBC One, CBeebies, RTP2, ABC1, Super RTL, Sjónvarpið, Discovery Kids, V-me and Ketnet, among other television networks...

  • Lola and Virginia
  • Lunar Jim
    Lunar Jim
    Lunar Jim is a pre-school-oriented stop-motion television show produced in Canada by Halifax Film and Alliance Atlantis. The show is based on an original concept created by Alexander Bar, and was script-edited in Season 1 by Peter Sauder of Nelvana fame. Season 2 was helmed by award-winning veteran...

  • Make Way for Noddy
    Make Way for Noddy
    Make Way for Noddy is an animated series for children, produced by Chorion of the United Kingdom in conjunction with SD Entertainment in the United States...

  • Madeline
    Madeline
    Madeline is a children's book series written by Ludwig Bemelmans, an American author of Belgian, Austrian and German origins. The first book in the series, Madeline, was published in 1939. It proved to be a success, and Bemelmans wrote many sequels to the original during the 1940s and 1950s. The...

  • Mighty Max
    Mighty Max (TV series)
    Mighty Max is an animated action/sci-fi/horror television series which aired from 1993 to 1994 to promote the British Mighty Max toys, an offshoot of the Polly Pocket line, created by Bluebird Toys in 1992. It ran for two seasons, with a total of 40 episodes airing during the show's run...

  • Mix Master
    Mix Master
    Mix Master is a Korean animated television series, also known by the name Mix Master King of Cards. It is a product of the major anime broadcaster KBS, and the animation was done by Sunwoo Entertainment. The story centers on the fantasy and adventure card war game, Mix Master...

  • Ned's Newt
    Ned's Newt
    Ned's Newt was a Canadian/German cartoon series produced by Nelvana and TMO Film GmbH. The program aired from 1993 to 1996 in Germany, and on Teletoon from 1997 to 1998 in Canada. In the United States, the program aired on Fox Kids from 1998 to 1999, and was later rerun on Fox Family Channel.-...

  • Pocoyo
    Pocoyo
    Pocoyo is a Spanish pre-school animated cartoon series created by David Cantolla, Luis Gallego and Guillermo García Carsi of Spain. It is about a young boy dressed in blue, who is full of curiosity. Viewers are encouraged to recognise situations that Pocoyo is in, and things that are going on with...

  • Rupert
    Rupert (TV series)
    Rupert is an animated television series based on the Mary Tourtel character Rupert Bear, produced by Nelvana, Ellipse Programmé, and Scottish Television , and aired from 1991 to 1997 with over 65 half-hour episodes produced. It was broadcast in syndication on YTV in Canada...

  • Sam and Max
  • Sky Dancers
    Sky Dancers
    Sky Dancers is the name of a line of toys that were popular in the mid-1990s. The toys were constructed of a pull-string base and a doll with foam wings. When the doll was inserted into the base and the string pulled, the doll would launch into the air, spinning its wings like a propeller as it flew...

  • Sonic Underground
    Sonic Underground
    Sonic Underground is an animated series that follows the adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and his siblings, pink hedgehog Sonia and green-hued Manic.-Plot:...

  • The Legends of Treasure Island
    The Legends of Treasure Island
    The Legends Of Treasure Island is an animated cartoon from the UK that ran from 1993-1995. It had two seasons of 13 episodes each and each episode runs for 22–25 minutes....

  • The Secret World of Benjamin Bear
    The Secret World of Benjamin Bear
    The Secret World of Benjamin Bear was an animated television series produced from 2003 to 2006 by Amberwood Entertainment. It is still being aired in Canada on both Family and Playhouse Disney specialty TV channels....

  • The Koala Brothers
    The Koala Brothers
    The Koala Brothers is an animated children's television show that features the adventures of two brothers, Frank and Buster, as they seek to help their neighbors in a sleepy town in the Australian Outback...

  • ToddWorld
    Toddworld
    ToddWorld is an animated children's TV programme about the adventures of a boy named Todd and his friends.ToddWorld features the artistic style of Todd Parr's children's books and was created by Todd Parr and writer Gerry Renert of SupperTime Entertainmenet...

  • Winx Club
    Winx Club
    Winx Club is a 2004 Italian animated television series, created by Iginio Straffi and produced by Rainbow S.p.A.. The series is aimed toward children between the ages of five and twelve and has spawned an international franchise of toys, books, clothing, DVDs, as well as a CGI feature film.Apart...



Anime:
  • Air Gear
    Air Gear
    is a shōnen manga by the mangaka Ito "Oh Great" Ōgure. Air Gear is about the life of Itsuki Minami "Ikki", also known as "Baby face" and "Lil Crow", and his friends. The story follows their use of Air Trecks, an in-universe invention derived from inline skates. The early parts of the story carry...

  • Battle B-Daman
    Battle B-Daman
    is an anime and manga series by Eiji Inuki that first aired in January 2004 in Japan, replacing Beyblade in its timeslot. It premiered in the United States on April 2005. Like its predecessor, it is themed around an enhanced version of a children's schoolyard game - whereas Beyblade was based...

  • Beyblade
    Beyblade
    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takao Aoki. Originally serialized in CoroCoro Comic from 2000-2002, the individual chapters were collected and published in 14 tankōbon volume by Shogakukan...

  • Captain Tsubasa
    Captain Tsubasa
    , also known as Flash Kicker, is a popular long running Japanese manga, anime, and video game series, originally created by Yōichi Takahashi in 1981. The series mainly revolves around the sport of Football....

  • Card Captor Sakura
  • Clamp School Detectives
    CLAMP School Detectives
    is a manga series by Clamp, which was adapted into a 26-episode anime series, produced by Bandai Visual and Pierrot. The manga series was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Asuka manga magazine between January 1992 and October 1993, spanning three tankōbon,while the anime premiered in Japan on...

  • Doraemon
    Doraemon
    is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio and Fujiko A. Fujio which later became an anime series and Asian franchise...

  • Duel Masters
    Duel Masters
    is a franchise based on a manga, anime and a trading card game. The English-language version of the series made a truncated three-episode preview premiere on Cartoon Network's Toonami block on February 27, 2004...

  • Fancy Lala
    Fancy Lala
    Fancy Lala, known in Japan as is a magical girl anime series produced by Studio Pierrot in 1998. A two-volume manga adaptation by Rurika Kasuga ran in Ribon. The original designs were created by Akemi Takada, who worked on many of the 80's Studio Pierrot series...

  • Fushigi Yuugi
  • Kaleido Star
    Kaleido Star
    is an anime series produced by Japanese studio Gonzo Digimation Holding. The series was created by Junichi Sato, who also directed the first season, and written by Reiko Yoshida...

  • Kiteretsu
  • Ninja Hattori
    Ninja Hattori-kun
    Ninja Hattori-kun is a manga series by Fujiko Fujio, later adapted into an anime series, a video game and eventually a live-action movie.- Plot :...

  • Magic Knight Rayearth
    Magic Knight Rayearth
    is a Japanese manga series created by Clamp, a mangaka team made up by Satsuki Igarashi, Ageha Ohkawa, Tsubaki Nekoi and Mokona. Rayearth combines elements from the magical girl and mecha anime genres with parallel world fantasy....

  • Medabots
    Medabots
    was originally an Imagineer video game released in 1997. The game was later adapted into a Japanese anime television series produced by Bee Train. Spanning 52 episodes, the series originally aired on TV Tokyo from July 2, 1999 until June 30, 2000...

  • Mermaid Melody
  • Mirmo
  • Minky Momo
  • Mix Master
    Mix Master
    Mix Master is a Korean animated television series, also known by the name Mix Master King of Cards. It is a product of the major anime broadcaster KBS, and the animation was done by Sunwoo Entertainment. The story centers on the fantasy and adventure card war game, Mix Master...

  • My Melody
    Onegai My Melody
    is an anime series based on the Sanrio character, My Melody. Produced by Studio Comet, the first series premiered between 3 April 2005 and 26 March 2006 on Animax, TV Osaka and TV Tokyo, spanning 52 episodes. A sequel, Onegai My Melody ~Kuru Kuru Shuffle!~, started airing 2 April 2006 and finished...

  • Pandalian
    Pandalian
    Pandalian is a multinationally developed animated series, with characters created by the Taiwanese company named TVbean, animation produced by Fuji Creative Corporation and Planet Inc. in Japan, with Nelvana and FUNimation jointly control sales, distribution and merchandising rights outside of Asia...

  • Saint Tail
    Saint Tail
    Saint Tail, known in Japan as , is a magical girl manga and anime series. Originally a twenty-four part manga by Megumi Tachikawa, the story was brought to television anime by producer Tokyo Movie Shinsha, with forty-three episodes and one short, broadcast by ABC...

  • Sgt. Frog
    Sgt. Frog
    is a manga series by Mine Yoshizaki. It was later serialized into a TV anime series directed by Junichi Sato. Both the anime and manga are comedies that follow the attempts of a platoon of frog-like alien invaders to conquer Earth...

  • Speed Racer
    Speed Racer
    Speed Racer is an English adaptation name of the Japanese manga and anime, which centered on automobile racing. Mach GoGoGo was originally serialized in print form in Shueisha's 1958 Shōnen Book, and was released in tankōbon book form by Sun Wide Comics, re-released in Japan by Fusosha...

  • Star Blazers
    Star Blazers
    Star Blazers is an American animated television series adaptation of the Japanese science fiction trilogy anime series , first broadcast in the United States in 1979. Significantly, it was the first popular English-translated anime that had an over-arching plot and storyline that required the...



Live Action
  • 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd
    100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd
    100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd is a television program that ran from 1999 to 2002 on Nickelodeon.-Plot:The show's premise is that the title character, schoolyard bully Eddie McDowd, is punished by a man called The Drifter because of Eddie's behavior. The 17 year old finds himself very attractive and...

  • Mortified
    Mortified
    Mortified is an Australian Children's television series, co-produced by the Australian Children's Television Foundation and Enjoy Entertainment for the Nine Network Australia, Disney Australia and the BBC. Debuting in 2006, it is a live action comedy-drama which includes surreal fantasy elements...

  • Ocean Girl
    Ocean Girl
    Ocean Girl is an Australian science fiction television series aimed for family audiences and starring Marzena Godecki as the lead character...

  • Spellbinder
    Spellbinder (TV series)
    Spellbinder is a sci-fi television series, produced by Film Australia & Telewizja Polska in association with the Australian Children's Television Foundation.The series is a 1995 serial of 26 episodes, co-produced between Australia and Poland...

  • The Adventures of Shirley Holmes
    The Adventures of Shirley Holmes
    The Adventures of Shirley Holmes is a Canadian mystery TV series that originally aired from 1996 to 1999. The show was created by Ellis Iddon and Phil Meagher who had produced a successful series of books with Harper Collins, teaming up with Credo and Forefront to devlop the TV series...


External links