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—That sound from Marathon's Vanity Plate.
Marathon Media was a French television studio based in Paris. They produced live-action dramas, nature documentaries, and animated series, usually animesque, in French and Japanese (although their work has been dubbed into many other languages). They were called Marathon Media Group before being bought out by Zodiak. After this, the third word was omitted from their name.
In February 2016, Marathon Media shut down after Zodiak Media was folded into the Banijay Group, who currently own the rights to Marathon's library with their animated shows in particular being under the Zodiak Kids label.
Around these parts, they're most recognized for having created Totally Spies!.
Some of their work:
- Atomic Betty (with Breakthrough Entertainment and Atomic Cartoons)
- 15/Love
- Famous 5: On the Case (A modern update of the literature series The Famous Five)
- Get Blake!
- Gormiti: The Lords of Nature Return! (with Giochi Preziosi S.p.a.)
- Kody Kapow
- LoliRock
- Marsupilami
- Martin Mystery
- Mission Odyssey (with Berliner Film Companie)
- Monster Buster Club
- Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend (with Nelvana, CBS and Scottish Television)
- Redakai (with Spin Master Entertainment)
- Rekkit Rabbit
- The Secret World of Santa Claus (with CineGroupe)
- Team Galaxy
- Totally Spies!
- Totally Spies! The Movie
- The Amazing Spiez! (Spin-Off picking up where Totally Spies! left off)
- The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti (with Gigglebug Entertainment)
