Apr 23, 2019

TV summary: "The last children on Earth", "Bitches", "The World of Women", and the new slate of TFOU.

Regular round-ups of animated series that have been announced for development, production, or delivery.

A new animated series based on Max Brallier's book series, The Last Kids on Earth, is being developed by Atomic Cartoon and will debut on Netflix later this year. Currently working on Atomic, the show features voices from Mark Hamill, Rosario Dawson, Catherine O'Hara, Keith David, Bruce Campbell, Garland Witt, Monse Hernandez and Charles Demers.

The comedy action story follows Jack Sullivan (voiced by Nick Wolfhard), a 13-year-old boy who must survive the monster apocalypse and band with other children to defeat hordes of zombies and creatures that roam their town.

Brallier will also serve as executive producer along with Scott Peterson, the showrunner/EP. Matthew Berkowitz and Jennifer Twiner McCarron are executive producers on behalf of Atomic.

Atomic Cartoons acquired the rights to The Last Kids on Earth in 2017 and Netflix ordered the series in 2018/2.

Freeform, a young adult・focused cable network owned by the Walt Disney Company, has announced the development of 2 animation projects aimed at women.

Betches is based on a multimedia brand of the same name created by a group of millennial women. The half-hour animated series will focus on the relationship between three best friends and roommates suffering from adulthood in New York City. Working on the professional life and love prospects of the character, the show is said to have an "irreverent" tone.

Rachel Corler (Lauren Girard and Lady Bit) will write the pilot and Emma Roberts (American Horror Story), Carly Haney, Keshira Childers and Gil Gorshein will be executive producers of Bunim-Murray Productions. It is planned.

The other project, Women's World, will be a half-hour, comedy animated series based on the graphic novel of the same name Aminder Dhaliwal. The show is set in a world where men have become extinct and women have developed supportive communities with a newly discovered female-only presence. The pilot is executive produced by Felicia Day (Guild) and written by Aminder Dariwal (Pinky Malinky).

France's TFOU, TF1 channel's children's TV show Block, is developing 3 new animated series: Gus with Technicolor Animation Productions, Imago with La Chouette Compagnie and Studio Reaz, and Mille Bornes (Working Group) based on the famous board game dramatized by the Just Kids subsidiary of Blue Spirit Productions. The title).

Gus is inspired by the characters of Dunkirk Roux and Françoise de Guibert, created for the publisher edition of Gulfstream. The series, about a little boy who wants to be a knight, targets 52〜by-11-minute episodes for 4-7 years old.

Imago (pictured at the top of this post) is a fantasy adventure series based on the original concept of ah by sylvain Dos Santos. Set in the Kingdom of Lamar, the show follows Zayn and his friends Shazemine, Zola, Bo, and their pet imagos, "into the imaginations of children whose arcane magical fields have increased their sensitivity to their magic."Together, along with their imagos, the children have to rid the kingdom of the Shadow Queen, which they have accidentally released. The project is aimed at 26-26 years of age in the 6x10 format.

Mille Bornes is an action comedy series based on the classic card game by Edmund Dujardin. The show will be aimed at 5-8 years old and in a 52 × 11 format, followed by a car race in which all the animals on Earth dream of winning, including the Milbornes World Championship, a group led by Fleur of rabbits.