One of the most popular and influential comic strip in the history of United States that recently got itself a movie and did a phenomenal job at the box office office will now once again spread its magic on the small screen. Yes, we are talking about Charles M. Schulz’s beloved “Peanuts” characters who are headed to Boomerang next month in a series of animated shorts that will air for the first time in English.
Produced by Normaal Animation Studios for French public broadcaster France Télévisions, the 90 second shorts were first aired in 2014 in French language on French 3. Boomerang parent company Turner Broadcasting announced the deal to air the 500 shorts last fall.
As Normaal was roped in to animate this series, the series followed the 2D stop motion animation technique as it meant to please old and new fans. The 2015 The Peanuts Movie had for the first risked of coming with a 3D CGI animation even when everyone was sceptical if they would be able to pull off Schulz’s drawing style as it would have been easy to lose the ‘Peanuts’ essence in this transition. However the movie managed to garner $246.2 million at the box office and become a hit.
Getting Peanuts on the small screen in English will not only make fans relive the comic strips but will also help in reaching out to a larger audience. Peanuts will premiere Monday, 9 May, on Boomerang, with new episodes debuting daily at 11:30 am ET / 8:30 am PT. Viewers will be able to catch a sneak peek on Cartoon Network the week of 9 May at 10:30 am ET / PT, with select shorts also appearing on the Cartoon Network video app.
The series joins a Boomerang lineup that includes Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!, Bunnicula, The Tom and Jerry Show and Wabbit. For now, Peanuts will give India a miss but we hope to witness Snoopy’s adventures in future on any one of the Turner owned channels in India – Cartoon Network, POGO or Toonami.