Squish is a French-American animated comedy television series produced and developed by American writer, director, and performer, John Derevlany, based on the best-selling comic book series by Matthew and Jennifer Holme.
The series, among other international kids programs, was picked up by HBO Max.
Premise[]
Squish is a comedy about an amoeba who wears a ball cap. His name is Squish. And oddly enough, he acts like all those other kids you might meet in a middle school. If those other kids were amoeba, paramecium, and microbes. This whole Town of Small Pond where Squish lives looks suspiciously like our own world, with its tidy streets and schools and homes. But it's inhabited solely by single-celled creatures with a few unicellular quirks. Algae are the cool kids, parasites can't be trusted. Bacteria, as always, makes a mess of everything.
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Release[]
On September 21, 2020, it was announced HBO Max has picked up exclusive U.S. rights to Federation Kids & Family’s animated children’s comedy Squish. The 52 x 11-minute series will begin airing on the streamer in Q1 2021.
Produced by Cottonwood Media and Planeta Junior, the show was originally commissioned by France’s Gulli. It has since been sold to VRT, RTBF (Belgium), Wow and Quebecor (Canada), Hop TV (Israel) and POP (United Kingdom). Squish is based on an original book series by New York Times best-selling authors Jennifer and Matthew Holm, and follows the adventures of a twinkie-eating grade-school amoeba.
It is executive produced and led by showrunner LEGO's 'Legends of Chima' and Nickelodeon's 'The Angry Beavers' writer, John Derevlany.
Paris-based Federation has used the time in lockdown to grow its catalog, recently partnering with France’s TeamTO on animated comedy series Presto! School of Magic.
HBO Max, meanwhile, has been busy acquiring kids' content. Since launching in May, the SVOD has added CBC series Detention Adventure, Moonbug toon Mia’s Magic Playground, and 41 Entertainment’s CG-animated S.M.A.S.H! to its offering.
Trivia[]
- The average 11-minute episode of Squish costs an estimated amount of $8,500,000.
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