{"id":29982,"date":"2025-06-27T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/worldscreen.com\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T11:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:05:36","slug":"lion-forge-to-expand-lostlings-to-long-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/lion-forge-to-expand-lostlings-to-long-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Lion Forge to Expand Lostlings to Long-Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lion Forge Entertainment has signed a deal with TalesVision to adapt its short-form YouTube series <em>Lostlings<\/em> into a long-form series.<\/p>\n<p>TalesVision founders Tristan Tales and Luke Pounder will write all episodes for the first season and serve as showrunners. <em>Lostlings<\/em> is set in a town where, every year, a teenager mysteriously vanishes without a trace, only to return exactly one year later with no memory of where they were or what happened while they were gone.<\/p>\n<p>When Jesse becomes the latest victim and the first \u201cLostling\u201d to not return after one year, a group of his friends set out to rescue him and free their town from its curse once and for all.<\/p>\n<p>The long-form series will premiere on the TalesVision YouTube channel before it becomes available on traditional streaming and linear platforms in second windows around the world. Production is set to begin this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTristan and Luke are amazing creators who meet the audiences where they are,\u201d said Stephanie Sperber, chief creative officer of Lion Forge, who will executive produce the new series. \u201cThey have a unique ability to create content that is high-quality, super watchable, globally appealing and spot-on for the YA audience. We are very enthusiastic about their YouTube-first model and are looking forward to exploring more IP through their \u2018pocket pilot\u2019 model.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I watched the pocket pilot for <em>Lostlings<\/em> I was hooked,\u201d commented David Steward II, CEO and founder of Lion Forge and executive producer of the new series. \u201cWe see this as the first project in a strategic partnership to develop YA-focused live-action content working with some of the best YouTube creators in the business. We\u2019re happy to make this investment and feel confident that this approach is a smart path forward in the future of live-action development and content distribution\u2014especially for YA audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tales and Pounder added, \u201cFrom day one, Lion Forge understood that this wasn\u2019t just about adapting a social media hit\u2014it was about reimagining how stories are discovered, built and delivered. Stephanie, David and the team immediately embraced our YouTube-first strategy, allowing us to deliver the series where our fans discovered it first. We\u2019re hopeful that this partnership will become a blueprint for how future IP can grow\u2014digitally-native and community-driven from the start.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lion Forge Entertainment has signed a deal with TalesVision to adapt its short-form YouTube series Lostlings into a long-form series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":29988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[5600,7499,11146,11147,4216,11148,11149],"class_list":["post-29982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-david-steward-ii","tag-lion-forge-entertainment","tag-lostlings","tag-luke-pounder","tag-stephanie-sperber","tag-talesvision","tag-tristan-tales","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lion Forge to Expand Lostlings to Long-Form - 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\/lion-forge-to-expand-lostlings-to-long-form\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lion Forge to Expand Lostlings to Long-Form - TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lion Forge Entertainment has signed a deal with TalesVision to adapt its short-form YouTube series Lostlings into a long-form series.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/lion-forge-to-expand-lostlings-to-long-form\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-27T12:30:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-27T15:05:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/06\/LionForgeEntertainment-Lostlings-0625.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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/lion-forge-to-expand-lostlings-to-long-form\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/lion-forge-to-expand-lostlings-to-long-form\/\",\"name\":\"Lion Forge to Expand Lostlings to Long-Form - TVKIDS\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-27T12:30:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-27T15:05:36+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/lion-forge-to-expand-lostlings-to-long-form\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/lion-forge-to-expand-lostlings-to-long-form\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/lion-forge-to-expand-lostlings-to-long-form\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Lion Forge to Expand Lostlings to Long-Form\"}]},{\"@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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