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6TEEN Wins Daytime Emmy

9/1/2009

Fresh TV’s 6TEEN Wins a Daytime Emmy Award

Toronto, ON, September 1, 2009 – Fresh TV Inc., an award-winning family entertainment company, won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Song – Main Title and Promo, for their animated tween TV series, 6TEEN. Big winners for creating the catchy theme song are composers and lyricists Anthony Vanderburgh and Don Breithaupt of DNA Music Productions.
 
The Awards were broadcast on the CW Television Network on August 30, 2009 from The Historic Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles.
 
The popular series was created by Fresh TV Inc. executive producers, Tom McGillis and Jennifer Pertsch and currently airs throughout the world including Cartoon Network in the US and TELETOON in Canada.

“The 6TEEN theme song has become a touchstone for an entire generation of tweens.  It’s what the Brady Bunch theme song was for their parents. During six successful years of 6TEEN, kids have been singing the song around campfires and at sleepovers around the country.” said Tom McGillis, President, Fresh TV Inc.

6TEEN is an animated situation comedy set entirely in a gigantic shopping mall. It’s all about minimum wages and maximum laughs as the ensemble cast of six 16-year-old friends try to make it through their first part-time jobs and life as a teen. From stumbling through relationships to dealing with hideous uniforms, the larger-than-life mall provides its stars with the perfect venue to spread their wings - and take total nosedives. The series is distributed internationally by Nelvana and was funded by TELETOON and the Canadian Television Fund.

6Teen’s opening theme song and main title was produced by Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana Studio.


About FRESH TV Inc.
Fresh TV is one of the world's leading creators and producers of award winning, audience pleasing family entertainment.  This award winning multi-media entertainment company set new audience delivery records when their ‘Total Drama Island’ finale scored as the #1 telecast in Cartoon Network’s history and the series itself served as the anchor to Cartoon Network’s prime time comedy franchise HAR HAR THARSDAYS.

Founded by Gemini© nominated producers Tom McGillis, Jennifer Pertsch, George Elliott and Brian Irving, Fresh TV finances, develops and produces animated and live-action television that powerfully connects to the interests, influences and enthusiasm of tween and teen audiences around the world.
 
Fresh TV eats, sleeps and breathes to create television young people will love to watch right now. Their current productions include the ‘Total Drama’ franchise, ‘6teen’, ‘Stoked’ and the live action feature, ‘My Babysitter's a Vampire’. 
 
Fresh TV’s sister company is the world-renowned animation studio Elliott Animation which provides a full range of 2D, 3D-CGI and 2D Flash animation production services for major North American clients from it’s studios in Toronto and Hamilton, Canada.


About DNA Music Productions
Don Breithaupt and Anthony Vanderburgh have been friends and colleagues for many years and have separately produced songs for album and radio, toured with bands, and worked as studio musicians.  They decided to team up to form DNA Music Productions a few years ago and focus largely on music for television.  They have composed on various projects for Nelvana and recently Sony Home Entertainment.  Don and Anthony enjoy bringing their diverse backgrounds together and are able to cover just about any style.  “We’ve had a complete blast working together on 6Teen,” says Vanderburgh. “It’s been equally challenging and rewarding.  We feel so blessed to work on such a great show with an incredible cast and crew.”

For further information contact: 
Katherine Holmes kholmes@hccink.com / 416-628-5604

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