Constructing on a partnership began in 2019, Netflix and the Dr. Seuss property introduced Tuesday that they had been creating 5 new animated collection and specials for preschoolers based mostly on the work of the famed kids’s creator.
The reveals embrace “Horton Hears a Who!,” “The Sneetches,” “One Fish, Two Fish, Crimson Fish, Blue Fish,” “Wacky Wednesday” and “Thidwick the Huge-Hearted Moose.” The screenwriter and producer Dustin Ferrer (the creator of “Esme & Roy”) would be the showrunner for all of them.
“One Fish, Two Fish,” “Wacky Wednesday” and “Horton Hears a Who!” shall be collection of varied lengths. “The Sneetches” and “Thidwick” will each be 45-minute specials. The streaming service didn’t announce launch dates for the reveals.
Netflix hopes the gathering of Dr. Seuss reveals will function an anchor for the service because it expands extra aggressively into the preschool house. Netflix mentioned it has had robust viewership for different preschool content material, like “Cocomelon,” which started as a YouTube channel; “Gabby’s Dollhouse” from DreamWorks Animation; and “Sharkdog,” created by the Singaporean artist Jacinth Tan Yi Ting.
The primary collaboration between the Seuss property and Netflix got here in 2019, with the creation of the animated collection “Inexperienced Eggs and Ham.” The second season of that collection will turn into obtainable on April 8.
“We’re all the time searching for new and interesting methods to share our tales, characters and messages with the subsequent technology of followers, and Netflix has a novel capacity to create authentic, pleasant diversifications of our timeless classics with an emphasis on creativeness, enjoyable, and schooling,” Susan Brandt, the president and chief government of Dr. Seuss Enterprises, mentioned in an announcement.
