NEW DELHI: Make this summer vacation even more enjoyable with Discovery Kids’ special treat of three animated adventure movies based on the inspiring and timeless stories of Tintin. In each movie special premiering every Sunday starting May 12th at 10 a.m., Tintin will engage kids with his intriguing escapades, curious mind, riveting investigations and solve the deepest mysteries.

All animated adaptations of one of the most popular comic classics of all times, Tintin movies premiering on Discovery Kids include Tintin and the Calculus Affair airing May 12th, Tintin and the Lake of Sharks airing May 19th and Tintin and the Prisoners of the Sun airing May 26th.

The intrepid young reporter Tintin and his trusted aide Snowy travel around the world accompanied by an interesting cast of characters including Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus and the detective Twins Thompson and Thomson.

Rahul Johri, Senior Vice President and General Manager - South Asia, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, said, “This summer vacation kids will be presented with an exciting line-up of television entertainment with the biggest animation series, Transformers Prime and three Tintin movies from Discovery Kids. Tintin will entertain, engage and enlighten the kids with his clever and curious adventures all through the month of May.”

Follow Tintin on his adventures with Discovery Kids’ installment of exciting Tintin movies:

· Tintin and the Calculus Affair: In Tintin and the Calculus affair, mysterious events unfold at Moulinsart, chandeliers explode, glass shatters and mirror cracks. Professsor Calculus is deep in nuclear physics and later, gets kidnapped! His invention – a machine capable of destroying objects with sound waves gets the unwanted attention of the secret services and it is up to Tintin and Captain Haddock to help him keep the machine in good hands. Will Tintin and Haddock outwit the secret agents and find Professor Calculus?

· Tintin and the Lake of Sharks: Shark Lake, the headquarters for a worldwide art theft operation has the criminal mastermind Rastapopoulos behind it all. Will Tintin be able to solve the mystery? Will the evil Rastapopoulos go free? Watch as Tintin uses Professor Calculus’s inventions, and his own good sense and courage, to rescue people and put an end to the schemes of the crooks in Sildavia.

· Tintin and the Prisoners of the Sun: Professor Calculus is kidnapped while Captain Haddock, the Thompson twins and Tintin are condemned to death. How will they escape? Watch Tintin and Captain Haddock continue their efforts to rescue the kidnapped Professor Calculus through the Andean villages, mountains, and rain forests before finding a hidden Inca civilisation in the temple of the Sun.