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Nickelodeon & Hasbro s eOne Announce New Animated Transformers Series
Thursday, February 25th, 2021 11:38am CST Greetings Seibertronians! We ve got some big news that kids entertainment provider Nickelodeon and Hasbro’s eOne are teaming up to deliver a new animated Transformers series!
This series will initially be 26 episodes long (each being half an hour in length).
Full press release follows:
ON ORIGINAL ANIMATED TRANSFORMERS SERIES,
BASED ON HASBRO’S ICONIC GLOBAL FRANCHISE
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BURBANK, Calif. - February 25, 2021 - Nickelodeon, the number-one network for kids, and Hasbro’s Entertainment One (eOne) have partnered to co-produce an original animated Transformers series (26 half-hour episodes), based on the iconic global property. In the action-comedy series, a new species of Transformers must find their place and purpose among Autobots, Decepticons, and the human family that adopts them.
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and Nicole Dubuc (
Transformers: Rescue Bots) and will be developed and co-executive produced by Dale Malinowski (
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). It will be produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio.
Meanwhile, Netflix is working to develop
Transformers: BotBots, an animated comedy that will focus on the mischievous little robots known as the titular BotBots who disguise themselves as everyday mall objects and are part of a toyline introduced as recently as 2018.
The 20-episode animated comedy will tell their story as they spend their days hiding on store shelves and their nights coming to life and having all kinds of adventures. That is, until a group of them known as The Lost Bots run into a mall security guard, effectively blowing their cover and put
New Transformers Animated Series Set to Roll Out at Nickelodeon, Netflix
Courtesy of Netflix
Netflix s Transformers: War for Cybertron
Both shows are produced by Hasbro s Entertainment One, as is a new My Little Pony series at the streamer.
Entertainment One, the entertainment arm of toymaker Hasbro, is doubling up on
Transformers animated shows.
Transformers series at both Nickelodeon and Netflix. EOne will also produce a
My Little Pony animated series for Netflix that will continue the story of a feature film set for release on the streamer later this year.
Both
Transformers series will be aimed at younger viewers. Nick s untitled show the ViacomCBS network s first in the long-running animated franchise received a 26-episode order. It will follow a new species of Transformers who are looking for their place among the Autobots, Decepticons and the human family that adopts them. The show comes from executive producers Ant Ward (
New Transformers Animated Series Greenlit by Nickelodeon & Hasbro
Nickelodeon and Hasbro’s Entertainment One (eOne) have partnered to co-produce an original animated
Transformers series (26 half-hour episodes), based on the iconic global property. In the action-comedy series, a new species of Transformers must find their place and purpose among Autobots, Decepticons, and the human family that adopts them. The series will premiere exclusively on Nickelodeon in the U.S. before rolling out internationally.
“As soon as I read the creative concept, which at its core is about family, I knew we absolutely had to tell this story with our good friends at eOne and Hasbro,” said Ramsey Naito, President, Nickelodeon Animation. “The series will tell a reimagined story featuring both original characters and fan-favorites for a whole new generation of kids and families. The creative team at Nick, overseen by Claudia Spinelli, SVP of Animation Development, can’t wait to get started on