Production Wraps on Old Enough! Season 3: More Fun, Surprises, and Life Lessons Coming Soon

Blue Ant Studios & Nippon TV Launch Strategic Partnership with New Format: Majority Rules

TORONTO, ON – February 23, 2026 – Blue Ant Studios is happy to announce that season 3 of the Canadian adaptation of Nippon TV format Old Enough! (6 x 30) has wrapped principal pictures and is now in post-production. With filming full, the brand new season of the TVOkids Original will convey one other spherical of heart-warming, confidence-building, smile-inducing adventures to audiences in Fall 2026.

 Old Enough! is an English language manufacturing of Nippon TV’s hit authentic format of the identical identify. The collection follows Canadian youngsters, ages three to 6, as they tackle real-world adventures, discovering independence, marvel, and on a regular basis challenges. Each episode highlights how households encourage autonomy, with a security group offering steering and help each step of the way in which.

Seasons 1 and a pair of of the Canadian adaptation of Old Enough! will air on prime time in April in Japan on CS Nippon, a number one satellite tv for pc broadcaster and subsidiary of Nippon TV Holdings.

Blue Ant Studios and Nippon TV’s profitable collaboration round Old Enough! has now sparked a bigger strategic partnership between the 2 corporations. This will entail engaged on improvement and manufacturing of unscripted codecs popping out of Nippon TV’s Gyokuro Studio, for the North American market.

Today, beneath this new collaboration, the businesses are happy to unveil Majority Rules, a brand new social technique experiment that challenges the societal paradigms of majority/minority – every thing from residing circumstances to methods to carry out in challenges and who stays within the sport is determined by a well-liked vote. Participants stay collectively in an remoted atmosphere with restricted facilities. They should cooperate to enhance their collective expertise – and doubtlessly their monetary acquire. Will going with the gang lead you down a flawed or silly path, or will it yield you riches? When energy belongs to everybody by means of a vote, who really wins? 

Blue Ant Studios and Nippon TV are gentle launching the format at London Screenings and partnering to convey it to the North American market. 

“We cannot wait for families across the country to see more extraordinary stories and the joy of watching children step into their growing self-reliance in season 3 of Old Enough!,” stated Matt Hornburg, Co-President, Blue Ant Studios. “We value the commitment our partners at TVO have made to this series and we’re equally thrilled to build on our partnership with Nippon TV by announcing Majority Rules. This collaboration allows us to bring a compelling new format to North America and, ultimately, to audiences worldwide,” provides Hornburg.

“This marks a historic milestone for the Canadian adaptation of Old Enough!, one of Nippon TV’s most treasured and beloved formats, as it reaches an impressive third season. It is even more meaningful for our  partnership with Blue Ant Studios to successfully ‘re-import’ their outstanding Canadian adaptation back into Japan for CS Nippon,  bringing it to  audiences who have loved Nippon TV’s Old Enough! for over 30 years,” stated Tom Miyauchi, Head of Nippon TV LA Business Office. “Our partnership with Blue Ant Studios has evolved into a dynamic creative alliance, and we have great expectations for future collaborations through Gyokuro Studio. Their trust in our creative vision has been invaluable and we are confident that our latest format, Majority Rules, will prove to be a groundbreaking addition to the global marketplace.”

Executive Producers the Canadian adaptation  Old Enough! for Blue Ant Studios are Matt Hornburg, Mark Bishop and Donna Luke. Carly Spencer serves as Series Producer and Eva Filomena serves as Senior Producer. For TVO, Natasha Negrea is the Head of Programming, Kirsten Hurd is Commissioning Editor for TVOKids and Alexandra Roberts is Commissioning Editor for TVO Docs. Old Enough! was produced with the participation of the Canada Media Fund.

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About Blue Ant Studios
An award-winning worldwide manufacturing and rights administration enterprise, Blue Ant Studios’ numerous slate spans premium factual and high-impact documentaries, competitors and leisure codecs, life-style, youngsters, youth and household, comedy, drama and animation, for broadcasters and streamers all through the world. A division of Blue Ant Media (TSX: BAMI), the Studio encompasses Blue Ant Studios, Insight Productions, Jam Filled Entertainment and Atomic Cartoons. Its award-winning slate contains iconic, fan-favourite reveals resembling Blown Away, Canada’s Drag Race, Mysteries From Above, Davey and Jonesie’s Locker, Kim’s Convenience, Highway Thru Hell, Top Chef Canada, Northwoods Survival, The Great Canadian Baking Show and Amazing Race Canada.

The Studio’s International distribution arm, Blue Ant Rights, represents over 9,000 hours of acclaimed content material from Blue Ant Studios and third-party producers, maximizing rights alternatives and connecting patrons with programming that resonates with international audiences. With workplaces in Toronto, London, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Ottawa, Halifax, Singapore, Sydney, and Vancouver the studio is well-positioned in key markets worldwide. blueantmedia.com⎮Instagram⎮LinkedIn blueantmedia.com⼁Instagram⼁LinkedIn

About Nippon TV
Nippon TV is Japan’s main multiplatform leisure powerhouse, in addition to proprietor of streaming large Hulu in Japan. Nearly 90% of its content material IP is totally owned by Nippon TV and the corporate has been energetic in bringing its content material to the worldwide market within the type of anime, ready-made applications, codecs, and thru co-production partnerships.
The firm has additionally lately introduced Nippon TV LA Business Office, the co-development and gross sales headquarters for US/LatAm, devoted to unscripted codecs.

About Gyokuro Studio
Gyokuro Studio, launched by Nippon TV, the Japan-based multi-platform leisure powerhouse, is an in-house manufacturing studio devoted to creating premium content material together with unscripted codecs for the worldwide market. Gyokuro Studio co-creates with prime in-house expertise in addition to main unbiased creators to ship premium Japanese content material to the world. The studio is headed by Ken Akiyama, who has served in key roles such because the chief producer of a number of prime time leisure reveals at Nippon TV. Akiyama has been essential behind the event of unscripted codecs together with Block Out, which has been efficiently tailored in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Mongolia, Spain, and the Netherlands, Pharaoh!, and Meet Me There, whereas additionally producing branded content material for luxurious homes resembling Cartier, Boucheron, and FENDI in Japan. Nippon TV website⼁LinkedIn⼁Nippon TV LA Business Office⼁Gyokuro

About TVO Media Education Group   
TVO Media Education Group conjures up studying that modifications lives and enriches communities. Founded in 1970, we’re a globally acknowledged digital studying group that engages Ontarians of all ages with inclusive experiences and numerous views. Through our manufacturers TVO Today, TVO Learn, TVO ILC and TVOkids, we’re investing within the transformative potential of schooling for everybody. TVO is a registered charity funded partly by the Province of Ontario and supported by 1000’s of sponsors and donors. Visit TVO.me for extra data.

For extra data, please contact:

Yuki Akehi, Head of Global Communications, Nippon TV [email protected]

Chihiro Shizawa, Global Communications, Nippon TV [email protected]

Kate Calder, Director, Communications, Blue Ant Media, [email protected]