Fun Tzu is a sporty TV competition where teams of children compete in an interactive SmartUs playground. Eight teams of both girls and boys compete for victory. As the games progress, the teams get enforcements in the form of famous athletes who take part in the same sports as the contestants.
The games test speed and agility but also require concentration, accuracy, memory and wit. The games are built around the basic components of SmartUs playgrounds. In addition to SmartUs products, the show features the Spinning Machine from Lappset's Axiom range as well as a Panna football arena where the contestants are challenged for a miniature game of one-on-one football.
The programme was shot on the playground of Aarnivalkea School in Espoo, Finland in the summer of 2008. The funds for building the playground were allocated from the jubilee budget celebrating the 550th anniversary of the city of Espoo. The city's sports and leisure department felt that investing in children and playgrounds was an important element of the jubilee celebrations. The filming went well and the playground technology functioned without fail throughout.
The series was aired in the autumn of 2008 on a Finnish children's TV channel called Juniori and will be repeated on the commercial MTV3 channel during 2009.
Intervisio Oy is an Emmy-winning TV production company that specialises in cross-media productions: formats that tie together the TV, the Internet and gaming. |
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