Today, Corus Entertainment announces its upcoming lineup of new and returning premium original content for 2023/2024. This includes a total of 25 new and returning series, with 11 titles from Corus Studios and eight from kids & family studio Nelvana.
“Corus continues to produce the best Canadian content for our great channels and to delight audiences around the world. Our ever-growing slate of original content entices viewers with diverse scripted and unscripted series, which showcase real-life experiences, engaging storylines, and Canadian talent who are leaders in their industries,” said Colin Bohm, Executive Vice President, Content and Corporate Strategy, Corus Entertainment. “Through Corus Studios, Nelvana, Aircraft Pictures, Waterside Studios and our esteemed production partners, we are proud of our upcoming slate of new titles and tried-and-true formats, sure to delight audiences.”
Nelvana is an international producer and distributor of children’s animated and live-action content, with programming seen in over 180 countries around the world. This year, the studio has slated eight new and returning series coming soon to Corus’ leading kids’ networks, Treehouse and YTV.
Animation highlights include:
YTV
Best & Bester (6 x 30′) returns with the pair of hilariously individual twins continuing their adventures living in a weird and wonderful alternate reality where your neighbor could be a pair of disgruntled trousers or your best friend a floating cloud of bottom burp.
Treehouse
Treehouse original series Builder Brothers Dream Factory gets ready to “gear up and get it done” with new episodes (10 x 11′) beginning this fall. Distributed by Nelvana and co-produced by Sinking Ship Entertainment and Scott Brothers Entertainment, twin brothers Drew and Jonathan continue to use their extraordinary imagination, creativity, grit, and heart — coupled with a big dose of twinspiration to help friends and solve problems in the neighborhood by dreaming big.
Fans of the Thomas & Friends franchise can look forward to a new special with the beloved engines in Thomas & Friends: The Great Bubbly Build airing this fall. The 30-minute special sees Sandy and Carly set out to make an art project together, but when their ideas clash and the project fails, they learn that it needs the right mix of both ideas to succeed.
Agent Binky: Pets of the Universe Season 3 continues (10 x 30′) with more fur-raising adventures on Treehouse this summer and fall. Produced by redknot, a joint venture between Nelvana and Warner Bros. Discovery, P.U.R.S.T. agents Binky, Gracie, Gordon, Loo and Nola are ready to soar into new adventures and protect their human families and the entire world from even more aliens, robots and the WURST villains. Packed with action, humor and heart, the third season features fun-themed episodes and missions that are literally out-of-this-world.
This fall also sees the premiere of Nelvana short film Jelly, an inspirational modern fairy tale. The 13-minute film follows Molly, a fiercely talented artist, debating whether to pursue her creative passion or work a soul-sucking factory job. She can’t decide until she meets a mysterious liquid spirit who takes her on an exhilarating journey of self-discovery and helps make the choice easy.
Next summer, the Nelvana-produced series Millie Magnificent (52 x 11′) premieres, inspired by Canadian author-illustrator Ashley Spires’ popular children’s book, The Most Magnificent Thing, published by Kids Can Press. With a spark of imagination and endless determination, Millie and her Creato-crew friends, Maya and Ben, together with her adorable canine assistant, Wallace, strive to find the most magnificent solutions to their neighborhood’s challenges.
As part of Corus’ expansive distribution strategy, its originals portfolio extends to streaming with the latest episodes available on STACKTV. The portal featured 16 of Canada’s top TV networks, including animation desinations Treehouse, YTV, Adult Swim, Disney Channel, Disney XD and Disney Junior.
