Lacey Entertainment

Lacey Entertainment is an American company focusing on the creation, production, packaging and distribution of entertainment content across a number of genres.

It was founded in 1994 by Brian Lacey, an entertainment executive, who has been actively engaged in the production, marketing and distribution of content totaling over 3,200 episodes broadcast in over 120 countries in a variety of genres, most notably in popular children's content over the past three decades such as Pokémon, Yugioh, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Voltron, and Shin chan (Crayon Shin-chan).

Most recently, Lacey engineered a worldwide (excluding the US) broadcast agreement with Viacom for broadcast on the Nick Jr. platforms for the young children's animated series Kiva Can Do! from the Dublin-based studio Kavaleer Productions. The series will be broadcast in 24 languages covering more than 130 countries worldwide.[1]

Lacey's former involvement with 4Kids Entertainment[2] included the international (excluding Asia) distribution of Pokémon[3] and Yu-Gi-Oh!.[4][5] Lacey also executed the successful re-launch of the classic action adventure series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Lacey has engineered broadcast placement among the leading platforms worldwide, such as Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, the BBC, ITV Network, GMTV, Sky TV, TF1, France Television, M6, Lagardere, YTV, Mediaset, RTL II, TEN Network, Nine Network, Telecinco, Antena 3, Télé-Quebec, Universal Kids and Jetix

In early 2000, Lacey orchestrated the global roll out of the Japanese animated comedy cult series, Shin chan (Crayon Shin-chan). Executive producing the English language adaptation of this offbeat and slightly controversial series, Lacey's distribution efforts cleared the series in over 90 countries where the content garnered outstanding audience ratings.

In 1996, Lacey introduced the light entertainment series America's Dumbest Criminals.[6] Lacey co-owns all rights to this brand and represents the entire 104 half-hour episode library for all media exploitation.[7]

Lacey also introduced the young children's classic The Mr. Men Show (Mr. Men and Little Miss) to American audiences in '97 via first-run syndication, and later broadcast on Cartoon Network. Over the years, Lacey packaged and executive produced a number of co-productions involving French, UK, Canadian, and Asian broadcasters and producers, most recently the comedy series Rocket Monkeys with Breakthrough Entertainment of Canada.[8]