Pocoyo (Pocoyó in Spanish and stylised as POCOYO) is an animated interactive preschool comedy television series created by David Cantolla, Luis Gallego, and Guillermo García Carsí, and is produced by the Spanish animation company Zinkia Entertainment, with the first two series were co-productions with Granada Kids, and the first series was a co-production of Cosgrove Hall Films, both in the United Kingdom.
José María del Río narrates the Castilian Spanish version of the show.
A half-hour special film titled Pocoyo & the Space Circus premiered on 23 November 2008 at Cine Capitol [es].
On 27 August 2009, another musical one-hour special titled Pocoyo's Big Party was released on CD, with a linear premiere on Clan on 31 December 2015.
[5] With the use of AI tools, a new series will release every 12 to 18 months for traditional television and premium streaming services.
[6] Set in a 3D space called Pocoyo World, with a plain white background and usually no backdrops, it is about Pocoyo, a four-year-old kid who is dressed all in blue, interacting with his animal companions Elly (the elephant), Pato (the duck), Nina (girl), Fred (the octopus), Loula (the dog), Roberto (the robot), Baby Bird, Caterpillar and Sleepy Bird.
[23][24] The show was showcased by Granada International at MIP TV in April 2005, with a broadcast window for CITV announced for the autumn.
[29] In May 2023, Zinkia announced the sale of the franchise to French children's investment firm Animaj for an indisclosed amount.
The sale would include all IP rights, distribution, and licensing to the franchise but would exclude the educational portions, which Zinkia would retain.
[45] In October, Granada pre-sold the series to Treehouse TV (Canada), Disney Channel (Southeast Asia), TVNZ (New Zealand), CYBC (Cyprus) Gulf DTH/Showtime and MBC (Middle East), IBC (Iceland), EBS (South Korea), Alter Channel (Greece), RTFBH (Bosnia), RTV (Slovenia), BabyTV (Israel) and the ABC (Australia).
At the time, deals were current underway for Germany, Japan, Finland, Sweden, France and Hong Kong.
[47] This was followed up in May with Granada pre-selling the series to KiKA (Germany), Discovery Kids (Latin America), WOWOW (Japan) and MNET (South Africa), and Zinkia selling Portuguese rights to RTP in June.
[51] Pocoyo aired alongside Peep and the Big Wide World in a shared half-hour timeslot on public television in the US from 2010 to 2021.
In 2021, the series moved to US commercial broadcast on Cartoon Network on September 13, 2021, as part of their preschool block Cartoonito.
The broadcast of the series on PBS Kids came to an end on December 26, 2021, and it, along with the show it aired with, was replaced with reruns of Dinosaur Train to the 7:30 a.m. weekend morning time slot instead.
[55] In 2024, the first 13 episodes of series 5 released on Max on 22 July 2024 in Latin America, and started airing on Cartoonito in that region.
As of September 2024, it is unknown when the series started airing on Cartoonito, but the earliest known date is 2 August 2024.
Episodes featured: Pocoyo & the Space Circus was released at Cine Captiol on 23 November 2008 as part of a charity.
[73] It later premiered on La 1 on 21 December 2008, during the stand-alone special El Show de Pocoyo.
The player will play the role as Pocoyo and search for his friends by using clues like colouring pictures and drawing objects.
Pocoyo Racing was released for the Nintendo DS and Wii on 18 November 2011, being published by Zinkia Entertainment and exclusive to Europe only.
Pocoyo Party was released for the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on 15 April 2021, and published by RECOTechnology.