Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana Studio has announced start of production on a new boys preschool CGI-animated series Trucktown, based on a series of children’s books. Forty half-hour episodes have been greenlit with delivery set for next spring. Corus Entertainment’s Treehouse, Canada’s No. 1 24-hour preschool channel, is the first broadcaster to pick up the new series.
Trucktown, which follows the playful adventures of a group of rough and tumble young trucks, is based on a successful series of bestselling books by children’s author Jon Scieszka (The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales, The Time Warp Trio, Spaceheadz) and published by Simon & Schuster, which includes more than 50 titles and has sold more than 1 million books.
The action centers around Jack Truck and his best friends Dump Truck Dan and Max the Monster Truck and the rest of the truck gang as they roar, romp, and power their way through Trucktown. This group of friends have never met a wall they couldn’t smash or a road or bridge they couldn’t build—and smash again. Filled with fun, Trucktown tells big stories that capture the big personalities of the trucks that live there.