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Animated Peanuts

The folks at Apple TV (they have dropped the plus-sign) just announced a batch of news for Peanuts animation fans, featuring both offering up more old content and premiering some new material.

  • June 26: a new season of Camp Snoopy drops.
  • July 3: added to the package is This Is America, Charlie Brown, the eight-episode miniseries from 1988 that uses the Peanuts characters to explore American history. (That show about the Mayflower that you ight have seen after an airing of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving? That’s part of this.)
  • July 10: The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show shows up on streaming. This originally ran in two seasons, one in 1983, another in 1985. (If you watched You’re on Nickelodeon, Charlie Brown in the late ’90s, that was this series leavened out with some of the less-run specials.)
  • July 31: a brand new special, Snoopy Presents: There’s No Place Like Home, Snoopy. You know you’re a star when your name is in the title twice! Snoopy’s doghouse is accidentally sold at a yard sale, and he and the rounded-headed kid have to see if they can track it down and get it back. The focus is on what makes a house a home, which is mostly having a pool table and a Van Gogh, I reckon.

Also in the pipeline at this point is Snoopy Unleashed, a new feature-length film with the same director and 2/3s of the same writing staff (and, judging from the one released image, much the same look) as The Peanuts Movie. Release date is not yet announced.

With Apple having the Peanuts animation rights through at least 2030, it is likely this embarrassment of riches shall continue!

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