Runtime: | 22 minutes |
Creator: | Liz Scully |
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Composer: | Steve London |
Num Series: | 1 |
Num Episodes: | 26 |
Language: | English |
Zeke's Pad is a Canadian-Australian computer-animated television series co-produced by Bardel Entertainment, Flying Bark Productions, Star Farm Productions, and Leaping Lizard Productions in association with Seven Network Australia and YTV Canada Inc.. The show was produced with the participation of The Canadian Television Fund, The Province of British Columbia Production Services Tax Credit, Film Incentive BC, The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, The Shaw Rocket Fund, The Independent Production Fund, The Cogeco Program Development Fund, The Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, and British Columbia Film. It aired on YTV in Canada on Saturdays at 7 PM. The show is about the adventures of a 14-year-old skateboarder and artist named Zeke who owns a magic electronic pad that brings life to anything he draws on it.
Zeke Palmer is a 14-year-old imaginative artist and skateboarder who lives with a weird and wacky family. His Pad is an electronic gadget that functions as a mobile phone, PDA, GPS, MP3 player, and drawing tablet, all rolled into one. Anything he draws in the all-in-one pad comes to life. Being a creative artist, Zeke is constantly drawing and making his drawings come to life, making decisions without thinking about their consequences. He learns that for every action there is a reaction, and things do not turn out the way he imagines.
Before its Canadian premiere on YTV, the show had been broadcast more than a dozen countries: Australia (Seven Network), Germany (ZDF), France on (Canal+ Family), Poland (ZigZap), India and Sri Lanka (Sun TV), Spain (Televiso de Catalunya), Latin America (Cartoon Network), and the Middle East (Spacetoon). Zeke's Pad was nominated for the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Children's Television Animation in 2010.[1] At the 2010 Elan Awards, which honours achievements in video games, animation and visual effects, Zeke's Pad took home Best Animation TV Production and Best Art Direction awards.[2]