Bunnytown is a children's television series that airs on Playhouse Disney's block in the United States and Canada, as well as more than seventy other countries. It is Disney's first large-scale international production. The program, created by David Rudman, his brother Adam and Todd Hannert, under their Spiffy Pictures banner, began airing in Canada on November 3, 2007, and in the USA a week later. It is produced by Bill Barretta, who currently worked for Jim Henson Productions. UK viewers got a premiere of this program on January 13th, 2008 on the Playhouse Disney channel sublet of... pay-broadcaster Family. In France, the series began on January 27, 2008, and kept its original title Bunnytown. The show is produced in Ontario, Canada with many of the outdoor segments done at Clarence Park and Verulamium Park in nearby St Albans. The final episode was scheduled to air sometime in 2009. On March 23 2012, the program returned as a set of shorts shown as interstitial content on the new 24-hour Disney Junior channel. Some are also being made available via the channel's official website. The animated bunny characters are mostly archetypes found in pop culture and storybooks.
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