Hopla

Hopla
Title card
Genre	Babies Toddler Computer-animated
Created by	Bert Smets
Country of origin	Belgium
Original language	Dutch (no dialogue in the series)
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	128
Production
Running time	5 minutes
Original release
Network	Ketnet
Release	2 April 2000 (2000-04-02) – 3 September 2008 (2008-09-03)
Related
Tik Tak

Hopla is a Belgian computer-animated children's television series, it was created by Bert Smets in 2000 and produced by Bert Smets Productions. The cartoon features the rabbit Hopla and his friends – the pig Onki, the bear Nina, and the kitten Lola. Similar to its spiritual predecessor Tik Tak, the series is aimed at babies and toddlers between 0–2 years old and has no dialogue (the only dialogue is the show's name). Each episode is about five minutes, the show was animated with Strata 3D.

The show first aired on Ketnet, a Flemish television channel, in 2000, and became popular soon afterward. Hopla has been aired in 31 countries (including Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Spain, Israel, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States).

In Belgium, Hopla's home entertainment titles have sold over 300,000 copies and their book-related merchandise has garnered sales close to 700,000. In Portugal, the show aired on public channel RTP2, with some dialogue added to briefly describe each scene's contents.

Characters

• Hopla, a white rabbit.
• Onki, a pink pig.
• Nina, a brown bear.
• Lola, a orange kitten.

Broadcast

Hopla airs in the United States due to an exclusive multi-year distribution deal between Bert Smets Productions and NCircle Entertainment, a subsidiary of Alliance Entertainment, signed in 2007. In December 2007, the series was aired on BabyFirst.

External links

• Official website