PBS Kids has expanded its “Super’s Comic Book Adventures,” which debuted in 2023 as a shorts series, into a 30-minute series that debuts in 2026.
“Super’s Comic Book Adventures,” a spin-off of “Super Why,” which ran on PBS Kids for 103 episodes from 2007 to 2016, focuses on literacy. A release from a children’s broadcaster shows that a recent study has shown that children’s reading scores have fallen, with the proportion of children falling below grade level. The new 39-episode series is aimed at preschoolers and kindergarteners, and is based on a curriculum to build skills such as letter sound knowledge, phonological recognition, spelling, vocabulary, and understanding. In addition to episodes featuring songs that force reading lessons, PBS Kids will release four new games and three digital storybooks on its website and app.
“Super’s Comic Book Adventures” focuses on Power Page, which is said to be the “newest super leader” in addition to characters from the original series. According to the official logline, “Each reading hero uses its own literacy power and gadgets to protect Leader Valley from a group of stupid super villains, including Eraser, who likes to annihilate things. Words.”
This series was created by Angela C. Santomero, Sarah Warrend Jack and Alex Breen and developed by Zircozza Turner. Sean Currigan is the director. 9 Story Media Group produces series and retains rights to global distribution and consumer products. The brown bag film is animated.
Sara Dewitt, Senior Vice President and General Manager, PBS Kids, said: “We are pleased to bring this multi-platform series to the “super leader” nationwide next year. ”
“We regularly go ‘Why Super!'” Coral Schoug, Vice President of Production at Brown Bag Films, said: “We are thrilled to be able to introduce you to this latest ‘Super Why’. The series and support help children develop their early literacy in a fun and effective way. ”
PBS Kids has also set a new premiere date for their new postponed animated series, “Phoebe and Jay.” The project will debut on February 2nd.
In a statement, DeWitt said: “PBS support for children is more important than ever. The recent abolition of federal funding and exclusion to learn grants that enabled “Phoebe & Jay” will delay its release and continue to have a ripple effect on the creation and distribution of PBS series with high quality, life-like impacts like PBS children with research and the creation and distribution of life-like PBS series with life-like children with life-like effects. Mathematics etc. ”
“Phoebe & Jay” follows six-year-old sibling twins Phoebe and Jay Yaber, and according to the official description, “It highlights the various texts that preschoolers encounter in their daily lives.
The series is produced by Minie Deez and Thy Than and is produced by executives by Phoebe & Jay Productions and Mainframe Studios. Tanya Green acts as a director producer rather than a director’s director. Co-directors include Mike Alcock and Mark Sinclair, while Isle Walden is the headwriter. Executive producers include mainframe Michael Hefferon and Kim Dent Wilder, Wendy Mosque Line and Nancy Steingard.
