Hotel Transylvania TV Series Lands on Disney Channel

TORONTO: Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana and Sony Pictures Animation have licensed the global broadcast and on-demand rights for Hotel Transylvania: The Television Series to Disney Channels Worldwide.

Hotel Transylvania: The Television Series is based on the hit film franchise from Sony Pictures Animation. The 26×22-minute animated show, produced at the Nelvana studio in Toronto, centers on the teenage years of Dracula’s daughter, Mavis, and her three friends. It is slated for broadcast next year on Disney Channel in the U.S., Europe (excluding Germany), Latin America, Australia/New Zealand, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, and will premiere on Corus’s Disney Channel platforms in Canada.

Sony Pictures Television will distribute Hotel Transylvania: The Television Series in the U.S., with Nelvana Enterprises distributing outside of the country.

“We are thrilled to be teaming up with Disney to share the visual and epic storytelling of Hotel Transylvania with audiences worldwide,” stated Scott Dyer, the president of Nelvana. “Working with our partners at Sony Pictures Animation, we are excited to build on the incredible global success of the franchise and bring the world of Hotel Transylvania to the small screen and Disney’s family-friendly platforms.”

Rick Mischel, executive producer at Sony Pictures Animation, added: “We know the Hotel Transylvania TV series will be in great hands with a strong global broadcasting partner like Disney, and look forward to audiences worldwide discovering the hilarious unknown adventures of a younger Mavis and her monster pals in a new adventure as we expand the franchise into television.”