All four seasons of Instant Star, the Canadian teen drama about a songwriter dealing with overnight success, have been licensed to a pan-regional Latin American broadcaster, Echo Bridge Entertainment has confirmed.Some 52 half-hours of the show will be dubbed into Spanish and will air on Boomerang, a teen channel owned and operated by Turner Broadcasting System Latin America. The show makes its debut in March this year.
"We anticipate that the universal appeal of the series along, with high quality production values and intelligent character-driven storylines, to be a huge success with our teenage audience," said Vicki Zambrano, channel director of Boomerang Latin America.
The series stars Gemini-winner Alexz Johnson, who later signed a recording deal with Capitol Records after the success of the series soundtracks in the US and its airing on MTV's Teen Nick.
Echo Bridge has previously licensed Instant Star to Poland's Canal+ Cyfrowy, France's Canal J, Spain's Antena 3, Israel's Noga Communications and MTV Networks Spain. CTV in Canada originally commissioned the series from Epitome Pictures.
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