Netflix Orders Four New Animated Preschool Shows, Renews Two More
An animated action-comedy series which follows the adventures of Sam Snow and Kit Casey, agents of CLADE: the Covert League of Animal Detective Experts. In a world populated exclusively by animals, these brilliant sleuths travel the globe solving mind-boggling mysteries that mix real zoological facts with wild detective action! The series is produced by Silvergate Media and animated by TeamTO.
The streamer has renewed two series that recently debuted: Ridley Jones and Ada Twist, Scientist. It has ordered second seasons for both, which will launch in November 2021 and in 2022 respectively. Both shows are created by Chris Nee (Disney’s Doc McStuffins), who has an overall deal with the streamer.
Executive producers: Adam Shaw, Oli Hyatt
Head writer: Sam Morrison
An all-action, all-comedy series from Emmy Award-winning Blue Zoo Animation. Hot-sauce volcanoes, biscuit dinosaur mysteries, and exploding soda pop factories; join the wild rescues of Major Prickles and his overzealous team, as they try to save the animal citizens of Big Tree City.
Action Pack (January 2022)
Here are the details of the new shows, complete with official blurbs:
Creators: Munjal Shroff, Lisa Goldman, Heather Kenyon (Gnomeo & Juliet)
Executive producers: Fred Soulie, Christopher Keenan
The Creature Cases (spring 2022)
Image at top: “Deepa & Anoop”
Netflix’s rivals are increasingly investing in this area — not least Warnermedia, which launched dedicated preschool block Cartoonito on HBO Max and Cartoon Network earlier this month. Meanwhile, this demographic is dominant among the most popular Youtube animation channels, as our new research shows.
Big Tree City (spring 2022)
Executive producer/showrunner: Chris Hamilton (Muppet Babies, Corn & Peg)
Story editor: Shea Fontana (DC Super Hero Girls, Wonder Woman)
Creator: Bill Harper
Executive producers: Kurt Mueller, Adam Idelson
Creator/head writer: Gabe Pulliam
Deepa & Anoop (2022)
In addition, Netflix has ordered four new shows: Action Pack, Big Tree City, The Creature Cases, and Deepa and Anoop. All will premiere in 2022. See more details below.
Subscribers with young children are attractive to streaming companies competing in an ever-busier marketplace. Children are famously loyal to their favorite shows, and parents are therefore seen as less likely than others to cancel their subscription (they are “sticky,” in industry parlance).
An all-new animated preschool series from Mattel Television that follows the adventures of fun-loving seven-year-old Deepa and her best friend Anoop, a color-changing elephant, at Deepa’s family’s bed and breakfast Mango Manor. Deepa and Anoop are the unofficial “ambassadors of fun” and make sure every guest has the best time possible, often solving the simplest of problems with the most imaginative (and complicated!) solutions that frequently involve large-scale musical numbers.
