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EMMY NOMINATED ANIMATED SERIES
SUPERBOOK AVAILABLE ON DVD IN
SOUTH AFRICA IN AUGUST 2017
Johannesburg, 20 July 2017: Christian Art Media is excited to name for this series was Superbook. Research undertaken
announce the release of the Emmy-nominated Superbook during and after the outreach, showed that this series was
Series, in DVD format, in South Africa. Superbook has been an unprecedented success. Over 8 million people a night
broadcast in more than 106 countries, watched by more watched Superbook on Japanese prime-time television,
than 500 million people, and has been translated into 50 and the Bible became the nation’s best-selling book. By
languages. Today, CBN and a team of Emmy-winning art- 1989, in the midst of economic and political turmoil, Super-
ists and storytellers, whose credits include Mulan, The Lion book began broadcasting in the Soviet Union with astound-
King, and Beauty and the Beast, have collaborated to com- ing results.
pletely re-imagine the classic series, using the latest 3D CGI
technology, for today’s audiences, from the ages of 6 years When Superbook aired during primetime on the Soviet
and upwards. National Channel, CBN received over 6 million letters from
children, introducing an entire generation to the Bible. The
In 1981, the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) created Superbook YouTube Channel is a great source of exciting
a children’s animated Bible series for the Japanese TV mar- clips and testimonies from children: https://www.youtube.
ket. Little did they realise what an impact the series would com/user/SuperbookTV
have in Japan and around the world. The series was known
as Animated Parent and Child Theater (アニメ 親子劇場,, Anime Oya- “Our goal with Superbook is to captivate the excitement
ko Gekijō), produced by Tatsunoko Productions in Japan, and imagination of the new generation with the power of
in conjunction with CBN in the United States. The English God’s word”, says CBN Africa’s Regional Director, Ian Wal-
