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This article is about the animation film studio. For the separate live-action studio, see DreamWorks Television.

DreamWorks Animation Television
FormerlyDreamWorks Television Animation
(1997–2012)
Company typeDivision
IndustryAnimation television
Founded1996
Founders
Headquarters1000 Flower Street,
Glendale, California 91201
,
U.S.
Areas served
Worldwide
ProductsTelevision animated series
OwnerDreamWorks Animation
(Universal Pictures)
ParentUniversal Television
(NBCUniversal (Comcast))
Websitedreamworks.com

DreamWorks Animation Television (formerly known as DreamWorks Television Animation and alternatively DreamWorks Television) is an American television animation studio and production company and the arm and label of DreamWorks Animation that the entity itself is a subsidiary of Universal Pictures' Universal Television and a division of Comcast's NBCUniversal. Founded in 1997, the entity was formerly named DreamWorks Television Animation. Its first programs from the 1990s and early 2000s used the live action television logo, and were produced by DreamWorks Television, Inc, before DWATV and it's parent company were spun off into an independent company and later purchased by NBCUniversal in 2016.

History

The company was first formed in 1996, as the animation division of DreamWorks Television a subsidiary of the main DreamWorks studio. The TV division was spearheaded by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg and was headed by Gary Krisel and David Simon. DWTA only produced two series: Invasion America and Toonsylvania .In a move to consolidate, DreamWorks Television Animation was shut down in 1999 as well as the direct-to-video subsidary has merged with the studio's feature animation division, As a way for the company to reorganize it's animation divisions to operate under one umbrella. More than two-thirds of the TV division's 50 employees were transferred to the direct-to-video unit and it was expected that only a minimal number of employees were be affected by the reorganization. In 2013 DreamWorks Animation entered a multi-year content deal with Netflix to provide 300 hours of exclusive original content. And the intent of the deal was to establish a reliable income for the studio to defray the financial risk of solely relying on the theatrical film market. The next day, DWA completed a five-year licensing agreement with Super RTL for the Classic Media library and the Netflix slate. DWA announced executive hiring for its new television group, DreamWorks Animation Television in late July. Former Nickelodeon senior executive Margie Cohn became Head of Television for the group. In September that same year, DreamWorks announced that it has acquired the TV library of London-based Chapman Entertainment with the programs to distributed through DWA's UK-based TV distribution operation. In Late 2014, DreamWorks Animation launch their own channel called the DreamWorks Channel. DreamWorks made a deal with HBO Asia to handle affiliate sales, marketing and technical services, the network will launch in several Asian countries (excluding China and Japan) in the second half of 2015. The channel first premiered in English on August 1, 2015, and a Thai-dubbed channel launched in September 2015. In 2016 DreamWorks Animation Televsion and it's parent company were purchased by Comcast through it's NBCUniversal division. After the completion of the deal, DWATV was placed under Universal Television with Margie Cohn heading DWATV.

Television series

# Title Creator(s)/Developer(s) Premiere date End date Network Co-production with
1 Toonsylvania Bill Kopp
Chris Otsuki		 February 7, 1998 (1998-02-07) January 18, 1999 (1999-01-18) Fox Kids N/A
2 Invasion America Steven Spielberg
Harve Bennett		 June 8, 1998 (1998-06-08) July 7, 1998 The WB/Kids' WB
3 Alienators: Evolution Continues Louis Gassin September 15, 2001 (2001-09-15) June 22, 2002 Fox Kids DIC Entertainment
The Montecito Picture Company
Columbia TriStar Television
4 Father of the Pride Jeffrey Katzenberg August 31, 2004 (2004-08-31) May 27, 2005 NBC N/A
5 The Penguins of Madagascar Mark McCorkle
Bob Schooley		 November 29, 2008 (2008-11-29) December 19, 2015 Nickelodeon (2008–2012)
Nicktoons (2013–2015)		 Nickelodeon Animation Studio
6 Neighbors from Hell Pam Brady June 7, 2010 (2010-06-07) July 26, 2010 TBS Wounded Poodle
Bento Box Entertainment
20th Century Fox Television
7 Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness Peter Hastings September 19, 2011 (2011-09-19) June 29, 2016 Nickelodeon (2011–2014)
Nicktoons (2016)		 Nickelodeon Animation Studio
8 DreamWorks Dragons Linda Teverbaugh
Mike Teverbaugh		 August 7, 2012 (2012-08-07) February 16, 2018 Cartoon Network (2012–2014)
Netflix (2015–2018)		 N/A
9 Monsters vs. Aliens Mark McCorkle
Bob Schooley		 March 23, 2013 (2013-03-23) February 8, 2014 Nickelodeon Nickelodeon Animation Studio
10 Turbo Fast December 24, 2013 (2013-12-24) February 5, 2016 Netflix Titmouse, Inc.
11 VeggieTales in the House Characters:
Phil Vischer
Mike Nawrocki		 November 26, 2014 (2014-11-26) September 23, 2016 Big Idea Entertainment
12 All Hail King Julien December 19, 2014 (2014-12-19) December 1, 2017 N/A
13 The Adventures of Puss in Boots January 16, 2015 (2015-01-16) January 26, 2018
14 Dinotrux August 14, 2015 (2015-08-14) August 3, 2018
15 The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show October 9, 2015 (2015-10-09) April 21, 2017 Jay Ward Productions
16 Dawn of the Croods December 24, 2015 (2015-12-24) July 7, 2017 N/A
17 Noddy, Toyland Detective Heath Kenny
Myles McLeod		 April 2, 2016 (2016-04-02) present France 5 (France)
Channel 5 (United Kingdom)
Universal Kids (United States)		 Gaumont Animation
18 Voltron: Legendary Defender June 10, 2016 (2016-06-10) December 14, 2018 Netflix Studio Mir
World Events Productions
19 Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh Ryan Crego
Thurop Van Orman		 July 29, 2016 (2016-07-29) July 20, 2018 Titmouse, Inc.
20 Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia Guillermo del Toro December 23, 2016 (2016-12-23) May 25, 2018 Double Dare You Productions
21 Spirit Riding Free Aury Wallington May 5, 2017 (2017-05-05) present N/A
22 Trolls: The Beat Goes On! Matthew Beans January 19, 2018 (2018-01-19) November 22, 2019[1]
23 The Boss Baby: Back in Business Brandon Sawyer April 6, 2018 (2018-04-06) present
24 The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle Marco Schnabel
David P. Smith		 May 11, 2018 (2018-05-11) January 11, 2019 Amazon Video Jay Ward Productions
25 Harvey Street Kids Emily Brundige June 29, 2018 (2018-06-29) January 10, 2020 Netflix N/A
26 The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants Peter Hastings
Mark Banker		 July 13, 2018 (2018-07-13) present Titmouse, Inc.
27 She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Noelle Stevenson November 13, 2018 (2018-11-13) May 15, 2020 N/A
28 Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny Elliott Owen November 16, 2018 (2018-11-16) present Amazon Video N/A
29 3Below: Tales of Arcadia Guillermo del Toro December 21, 2018 (2018-12-21) July 12, 2019 Netflix Double Dare You Productions
30 Where's Waldo? Koyalee Chanda
Lucas Mills		 July 20, 2019 (2019-07-20) present Universal Kids
(2019)
Peacock (2020–present)		 N/A
31 Archibald's Next Big Thing Tony Hale
Drew Champion
Jacob Moffat		 September 6, 2019 (2019-09-06) Netflix Titmouse, Inc.
32 DreamWorks Dragons: Rescue Riders Jack Thomas
Johnny Belt
Robert Scull		 September 27, 2019 (2019-09-27) N/A
33 Cleopatra in Space Mike Maihack
Doug Langdale
Fitzy Fitzmaurice		 November 25, 2019 (2019-11-25) (Asia)
July 15, 2020 (2020-07-15) (USA)		 DreamWorks Channel (Asia)
Peacock (United States)[2] 		Titmouse, Inc.[3]
34 Fast & Furious Spy Racers December 26, 2019 (2019-12-26) Netflix Universal
35 Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts Radford Selchrist
Bill Wolkoff		 January 14, 2020 (2020-01-14) Studio Mir
36 Rhyme Time Town June 19, 2020 N/A

Upcoming television series

# Title Creator(s)/Developer(s) Premiere date Network Co-production with
37 Wizards: Tales of Arcadia[4] Guillermo del Toro August 7, 2020 Netflix Double Dare You Productions
38 Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous[5] TBA September 18, 2020 Universal
Amblin Television
39 Gabby's Dollhouse[6][7] Traci Paige Johnson
Jennifer Twomey		 2020 N/A
40 Go, Dog. Go![8] TBA WildBrain
41 The Mighty Ones[9] Sunil Hall
Lynne Naylor-Reccardi[10]		 Peacock
Hulu		 N/A
42 Trollstopia[9] Matthew Beans
43 Madagascar: A Little Wild[9] Johanna Stein
44 Robot Of Future[11] TBA
45 Felix the Cat[12] TBA Felix the Cat Productions
46 Bearbrick[13] Dentsu Entertainment
47 Good Times[14] N/A
48 Cloudsland[14]
49 Bros[15]
50 New Moon[16]




References

  1. ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (April 10, 2020). "Will 'Trolls World Tour' Profit Off Universal's Experimental VOD (& Drive-In Theater) Model?". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
  2. ^ Pedersen, Erik (January 16, 2020). "Peacock Programming: List Of NBCUniversal Streaming Service's Series, Films, Sports, News & More". Deadline. Retrieved January 16, 2020.
  3. ^ Maihack, Mike (November 25, 2019). "Mike Maihack on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
  4. ^ Amidi, Amid (November 7, 2017). "'Trollhunters' Universe Will Expand Into The Trilogy Series 'Tales of Arcadia'". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
  5. ^ ByMercedes Milligan, Mercedes (June 4, 2019). "DreamWorks 'Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous' Roars to Netflix in 2020". Animation Magazine.
  6. ^ ByMercedes Milligan, Mercedes (October 15, 2018). "DreamWorks, Netflix Set 3 New Originals Series for 2019–20". Animation Magazine.
  7. ^ "Spin Master enters Gabby's Dollhouse". Kidscreen. July 29, 2019.
  8. ^ https://www.animationmagazine.net/streaming/netflix-slates-7-preschool-originals-from-award-winning-creators/
  9. ^ a b c https://deadline.com/feature/peacock-tv-nbc-universal-streaming-service-1202832718/
  10. ^ https://www.animationmagazine.net/streaming/hulu-unveils-animation-slate-at-tca/
  11. ^ Masenello, Massimiliano (May 5, 2020). "'Robot of Future' a Comedy-Sci-Fi-Children From DreamWorks Animation Television, Peacock and Hulu Hit Future". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved May 5, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ Hulett, Steve (March 2, 2016). "The Animated Production Among Us ... Again". Animation Guild Blog.
  13. ^ "Dentsu, DreamWorks Plan TV Animation for Medicom's Be@rbrick Figures". Anime News Network. December 26, 2017. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
  14. ^ a b Masenello, Massimiliano (June 9, 2020). "'Good Times' and 'Cloudsland' from DreamWorks Animation Television hit in Development". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved June 9, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ Masenello, Massimiliano (June 28, 2020). "'Bros' a Animated-Musical-Adventure-Comedy Song from DreamWorks Animation Television". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved June 28, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ^ Masenello, Massimiliano (July 18, 2020). "'New Moon' from DreamWorks Animation Television in Development". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved July 18, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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