DeAPlaneta Entertainment and Superprod Group have teamed as much as reintroduce the enduring Underdog character to a brand new era with an animated kids’s collection. This collaboration builds on their profitable monitor report with the earlier exhibits, Helen’s Little Faculty and That’s Joey.
The Underdog collection was developed by Superprod Animation, and produced in Paris and Milan with Angoulême studios and Purple Monk; it’s presently in manufacturing with Gulli/M6, Purple Monk Studio, and RAI. Premiering in fall 2025 with 52 11-minute episodes, Underdog is a lighthearted comedy focused to children ages five to eight.
DeAPlaneta Leisure holds media rights for Spain, Portugal, and Central and Jap Europe (CEE), in addition to world merchandising and model licensing rights, excluding French- and Italian-speaking areas and the US. Superights, Superprod Group’s distribution arm, is promoting in different territories globally.
“Underdog has all of the qualities we search for in our collection, with an ingenious and engaging idea that offers a special dimension to the determine of superheroes,” says Carlos Biern, Content material and Media Gross sales Director of DeAPlaneta Children & Household. “We’re very a lot trying ahead to sharing it with audiences, and we’re additionally excited to be working once more with Superprod Animation, with whom we share a standard imaginative and prescient of household leisure.”
This present will revitalize the Underdog character, because the hero pup’s final on-screen look was within the 2007 Walt Disney Photos live-action movie.
“Underdog goals to be the perfect introductory superhero for younger kids: a delightfully goofy, genuinely sort canine superhero, backed by an superior workforce, who takes on splendidly mischievous, hilariously depraved supervillains,” says Clément Calvet and Jérémie Fajner, co-founders of SUPERPROD GROUP. “We’re thrilled to workforce up once more with DePlaneta Children & Household to deliver this recent, super-powered comedy to viewers globally.”
Go to Superprod Group and DeAPlaneta Entertainment to be taught extra about this collaboration and respective animated choices.
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