This Is Daniel Cook

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marblemedia is a content creation company on the forefront of television and new media production, devoted to telling stories that entertain and engage audiences across all platforms.

 

marblemedia cofounders Mark Bishop and Matt Hornburg were recipients of the 2007 Lions Gate/Maple Pictures Innovative Producer Award and nominated for Company of the Year by the 2008 CNMA’s.

 

Some of marblemedia’s notable projects include the teen competition series The Adrenaline Project; the hit preschool series This is Daniel Cook and This is Emily Yeung; the first television series and website in American Sign Language, deafplanet.com; and the mobile short film anthology Shorts in Motion: The Art of Seduction.

 

Upcoming projects for the independent producers include Taste Buds, The Dating Guy and Camerahead.

 


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Upcoming projects include: the animated comedy The Dating Guy, in production with Teletoon for debut in 2009, and Camerahead a user-generated cross platform comedy series in development with CBC.


DITCH PIRATES

Ditch Pirates is an animated comedy for older teens and adults featuring 6 year old twin brothers, their amnesiac girlfriend, and their utterly inappropriate adventures spurred on by the "treasures" they find in their neighborhood ditch.

 

I WANT TO BE (in development with Sun TV)

From Fire Eaters to Fashion Designers today's kids are into a wide variety of stuff. Traditionally, kids had to wait until we were adults for a chance to live out their dreams. Not any more. I Want to Be helps talented kids make their dreams come true TODAY!

 

THE INVASION

The Invasion is about a bunch of teenagers who literally invade a big time television studio and produce, write, direct and star in the ultimate teen sketch comedy show.

 

THE PARENT MANUAL

A new reality series that ignores the so-called experts, challenges conventional wisdom, and helps today's parents solve their child rearing dilemnas the right way - THEIRS.

 

WAITING IN THE WINGS

A comedy about a group of teenagers who form an after-school theatre troupe that explodes off the stage with comedy, tragedy, secret crushes, and secret ambitions.

 

WASHED UP

It's Gilligan's Island meets The Surreal Life in an animated comedy featuring America's most loveable has-beens and a deserted, uncharted island.


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THIS IS DANIEL COOK

How many kids do you know with their own TV show, website, DVD's, books and more? These days, maybe a few, but if you explore the world through Daniel's eyes you'll go on some pretty cool adventures and find there's a lot more to see down there than people's knees.

 

Co-produced with Sinking Ship Productions.

 


 

THE ADRENALINE PROJECT

This action-packed youth game show brings extreme adventures and intense competition to the screen. Contestants will feel their hearts pumping, blood rushing and palms sweating.

 

New episodes airing on YTV, 2008.

 


 

TASTE BUDS

Take two curious kids, a high-tech fridge and a wacky friend who always has just the right gadget to save the day, and you've got a recipe for a taste adventure.

 

In production. Fall 2008.

 

 


 

THIS IS EMILY YEUNG

Who says Daniel gets to have all the fun? In proving their "This is ... " format, seven-year-old Emily is showing audiences that even a little person can have a whole lot of girl power!

 

Co-produced with Sinking Ship Productions.




Profile

  • marblemedia is a finalist for Company of the Year and Mark Bishop is a finalist for Producer of the Year.
  • marblemedia is a member of the Alliance for Children and Television, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, Interactive Ontario, and the Canadian Film and Television Production Association. 
  • This is Daniel Cook and This is Emily Yeung are now airing in multiple languages in over 85 countries and in over a dozen languages, in territories covered by: Discovery Latin America, C4U Media Co Ltd (South Korea), Playhouse Disney US, Disney Germany, Disney Japan, ABC Australia, Treehouse, TVO, as well as all three western Canadian ed nets.
  • This is Daniel Cook also has a five volume DVD collection, produced by marblemedia, a series of six books and a Juno nominated CD based on the television program now available at retail locations across North America. 



Spotlight - Marblemedia

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

2008 Webby Award
    Official Honoree for
www.thisisemilyyeung.com
Youth Category

2008 Parents’ Choice Awards
    Approved Parents’ Choice Award
The Adrenaline Project

2008 Juno Awards
    Nominated for Best Children’s Album of the Year
“This is Daniel Cook. Here we are!”

2008 Independent Music Awards
    Nominated for Favorite Children’s Group/Artist or Duo
“This is Daniel Cook. Here we are!”

Visit the Marblemedia website for a full list of awards and successes.

OMDC


io's 6 Part Spotlight Series is made possible with the generous support of the OMDC on behalf of the Ministry of Culture.