Sky Kids unveils a pair of new preschool toons

Happy Town and Let's Go, Bananas! will roll out on the UK linear net later this year.
February 20, 2024

British broadcaster Sky has added two new 2D-animated series for its preschool viewers: Happy Town (pictured above) and Let’s Go, Bananas! (pictured below). 

Both titles will roll out sometime this year on the Sky Kids linear channel, which launched a year ago to serve the under-seven demo. 

Happy Town is a 50 x seven-minute series about two besties, a hedgehog and a ladybird, who live in a colorful town and work hard to help others in their community. Mel B from the Spice Girls is lending her voice to the toon, which was created by director James Fox and will be produced by London-based Happy Town Productions.

Let’s Go, Bananas! (52 x 11 minutes) is a 9 Story Media Group/Brown Bag Films comedy-driven concept centering around the lives of three neighboring families who end up bonding even though they are from different animal species. Canadian broadcaster CBC Kids commissioned the series and 9 Story owns worldwide distribution and merchandising rights to the show, which will debut on CBC and CBC Gem this Spring.

Tim Bain (Bluey) created Let’s Go, Bananas! , which is billed as a “celebration of different family structures” for young audiences. Sonia Santarelli (Phineas and Ferb) will produce with EP Lisa Mackintosh for Sky Kids.

Updated on February 20 at 4:40 pm 

Correction: Canada’s CBC Kids is the commissioning broadcaster of Let’s Go, Bananas! while Sky Kids pre-bought the series. An earlier version of the story stated that Sky Kids commissioned the series.

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