{"id":27382,"date":"2024-04-19T08:50:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T12:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/worldscreen.com\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T09:47:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T13:47:02","slug":"superkitties-soars-into-second-season-with-sarah-mullervy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/superkitties-soars-into-second-season-with-sarah-mullervy\/","title":{"rendered":"SuperKitties\u00a0Soars into Second Season with Sarah Mullervy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SuperKitties<\/em> has been working on instilling lessons on empathy, kindness, friendship and resilience since it first debuted early last year on Disney Junior. Its second season, now airing, furthers the adventures of its kitty superheroes to continue promoting these values to preschoolers and their families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our new\u00a0<em>SuperKitties<\/em>\u00a0adventure, we continue to explore the multifaceted characters of our world, heroes and villains alike, as we delve into situations and emotions that many preschoolers (and some of us grown-ups, too) experience,\u201d Sarah Mullervy, executive producer of the series, tells\u00a0<em>TV Kids<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the new set of episodes, the SuperKitties learn a slew of relatable lessons, from Ginny realizing that it\u2019s OK for her best friend to make a new friend to Sparks discovering that expressing your emotions to your friends can make you feel better.<\/p>\n<p>The villains the heroes battled in the first season return to give further glimpses into their personalities and motivations. While their evildoings are mild and wacky\u2014e.g., using high-tech devices to obtain cheese\u2014they are all \u201cmotivated by relatable preschool emotions: not wanting to share, trouble dealing with change, etc.,\u201d Mullervy explains. \u201cWe start with a real preschool emotion and, through the villains\u2019 personalities, take it to its most absurd and extreme. So, our evildoing is mild, but hopefully, it\u2019s also super silly and helps kids understand and empathize with our misguided baddies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cast features a wide array of talented names who add their own charm to the show, from the voices of the SuperKitties\u2014Emma Berman, Cruz Flateau, JeCobi Swain and Pyper Braun\u2014to the season one guest cast of Justin Guarini, Jeremy Jordan and Isabella Crovetti, among others. The new season brings even more talent to the table.<\/p>\n<p>Anika Noni Rose (<em>The Princess and the Frog<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Dreamgirls<\/em>), Pamela Adlon (<em>King of the Hill<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Louie<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Recess<\/em>) and Eric Bauza (<em>Looney Tunes Cartoons<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Bugs Bunny Builders<\/em>) are among the newest additions to the cast. They each play characters who bring out and expand on traits of the existing protagonists and villains, showing how people aren\u2019t defined by one characteristic but are multifaceted and can have both good and bad qualities.<\/p>\n<p>Rose plays Sassy, Cat Burglar\u2019s cousin, \u201ca sweet talkin\u2019 country kitten [who] is not only a fabulous character in her own right but also helps reveal a sweet side to Cat Burglar,\u201d Mullervy says. Adlon plays \u201cZsa-Zsa\u2019s dramatic aunt, and we\u2019ll finally see where Zsa-Zsa gets her commanding personality,\u201d while Bauza stars as Wiggles, a new robot friend \u201cwho Sparks creates as a fun dancing toy and a companion for the SuperKitties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The SuperKitties themselves get a few enhancements to add to the fun of the series, with new powersuits and a special Su-Purr Charge that allow them to upgrade their \u201calready pawesome superpowers to become even more super,\u201d Mullervy explains. \u201cThe SuperKitties use their Su-Purr Charge when they need a power boost, usually during an adventure when the villain seems to be gaining the upper hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mullervy is no stranger to producing a hit kids\u2019 show, having begun her career at Sesame Workshop working on various\u00a0<em>Sesame Street<\/em>\u00a0spin-offs and later helping develop shows such as\u00a0<em>Pinky Dinky Doo<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Upside Down Show<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Electric Company<\/em>, as well as adaptations of hit IP like\u00a0<em>Peter Rabbit<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Across these many projects, \u201cthe biggest thing I\u2019ve learned is that television takes a village,\u201d Mullervy stresses. \u201cEveryone along the process brings their own little spark to the show, and good ideas can come from anywhere.\u00a0<em>SuperKitties<\/em>\u00a0is truly a team effort, and I continue to marvel at how each member of the team elevates and enriches the work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Disney Junior has recognized the value and entertainment\u00a0<em>SuperKitties<\/em> provides to preschoolers and their families and the hard work the team has put into the show and already ordered a third season from series producer Sony Pictures Television\u2014Kids.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are already hard at work writing the third season, and it promises to be our biggest and most daring yet,\u201d Mullervy teases. Until then, families can catch new episodes of season two on Disney Junior every Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The executive producer of Disney Junior\u2019s SuperKitties shares what the series\u2019 second season entails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":27383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,21],"tags":[112,9378,7107],"class_list":["post-27382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-features","category-top-stories","tag-disney-junior","tag-sarah-mullervy","tag-superkitties","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SuperKitties\u00a0Soars into Second Season with Sarah Mullervy - TVKIDS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/superkitties-soars-into-second-season-with-sarah-mullervy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SuperKitties\u00a0Soars into Second Season with Sarah Mullervy - TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The executive producer of Disney Junior\u2019s SuperKitties shares what the series\u2019 second season entails.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/superkitties-soars-into-second-season-with-sarah-mullervy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-04-19T12:50:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-22T13:47:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/04\/DisneyJunior-SuperKitties2-0424.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"394\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/superkitties-soars-into-second-season-with-sarah-mullervy\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/superkitties-soars-into-second-season-with-sarah-mullervy\/\",\"name\":\"SuperKitties\u00a0Soars into Second Season with Sarah Mullervy - TVKIDS\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2024-04-19T12:50:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-04-22T13:47:02+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/superkitties-soars-into-second-season-with-sarah-mullervy\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/superkitties-soars-into-second-season-with-sarah-mullervy\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/superkitties-soars-into-second-season-with-sarah-mullervy\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"SuperKitties\u00a0Soars into Second Season with Sarah Mullervy\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\",\"name\":\"TVKIDS\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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