Open Season: Call of Nature

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Open Season: Call of Nature
Genre
Based on Open Season
by Steve Moore
John B. Carls
Jill Culton
Anthony Stacchi
Sony Pictures Animation
Developed by
  • Jennie Stacey
  • Kent Redecker
Directed by
  • Mark Thornton
  • Todd Kauffman
Voices of
Country of origin
  • United States
  • Canada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes26 (52 segments)
Production
Executive producers
  • Vince Commisso
  • Rick Mischel
  • Natalie Osborne
  • Blake Tohana
Producers
  • Jazmin Playtis
  • Alicia Moore
Running time22 minutes (11 minutes per segment)
Production companies
Original release
Network Family Channel [note 1]
ReleaseNovember 3, 2023 (2023-11-03) [note 2]  
present (present)

Open Season: Call of Nature is an animated children's television series based on the Open Season film franchise. The series follows Boog and Elliot, a pair of urban animals who are best friends. They embark on an adventure to create a new place for animals to live and embrace their inner wild. It is a co-production between Sony Pictures Animation in the United States and 9 Story Media Group's Brown Bag Films Toronto Studio in Canada. The series premiered on Family Channel on November 3, 2023.

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It is also been broadcast on Discovery Kids in Latin America, ABC Entertains in Australia, Disney Channel in Germany and Nickelodeon in the UK. 26 episodes of the series have been produced.

Premise

When Boog and Elliot discover an abandoned Summer Camp in the middle of nowhere, they embark on a brave new adventure of creating a safe and special place to live that welcomes animals of every kind. Under the leadership of Boog and Elliot, the Campers must all work together to help create their own slice of paradise in the middle of the wilderness and rediscover their inner wild.

9 Story Media Group

Cast

Main

Supporting

Minor

Episodes

No.TitleOriginal release date
1a"Welcome to Camp Wild"TBA
1b"A Break from the Norm"TBA
2a"The Wisdom of the Naked Mole Rats"TBA
2b"Doormates"TBA
3a"Duty Calls"TBA
3b"Finding Dinkleman"TBA
4a"The Wild Ways of Wild the Wolf"TBA
4b"More Bang for your Bucks"TBA
5"Escape from Pet Palace"TBA
6a"Chore and Peace"TBA
6b"Hypno-Weenie"TBA
7a"A Shear Audacity"TBA
7b"Karlita's Way"TBA
8a"Father Fibber"TBA
8b"Freaky Fried Eggs"TBA
9a"Camp Takes Two"TBA
9b"Straight from the Horse's Mouth"TBA
10a"A Shame of Thrones"TBA
10b"New Phone Who's Dis"TBA
11a"Sleeping Boogie"TBA
11b"Pet vs. Pests"TBA
12"Camp of the Cave Bear"TBA
13a"Camp Palace"TBA
13b"Will the Real McSquizzy Please Stand Up?"TBA
14"Cash Camp"TBA
15"Treasure Island"TBA
16a"Hunter Gatherers"TBA
16b"There's No E In Team"TBA
17a"Uptown Squirrel"TBA
17b"Mother Nature's Fawn"TBA
18"The Possum Job"TBA
19a"What a Chinook"TBA
19b"Everybody Loves Ian"TBA
20a"Mr. Weenie's Trailer Trash"TBA
20b"Close Encounters of the Nutty Kind"TBA
21a"Radio Wild"TBA
21b"Undercover Karla"TBA
22a"What Happens in The Wild"TBA
22b"Squirrel Down"TBA
23a"Clowning Around"TBA
23b"The Deer and the Pussycat"TBA
24a"Playing Dead"TBA
24b"Beef in the Mess Hall"TBA
25a"Fish Out of Water"TBA
25b"Mukluck"TBA
26a"Breaking Big"TBA
26b"The Polar Empress"TBA

Broadcast

The series was announced on August 1, 2023. [1] [2] The series had its world premiere on Discovery Kids in Latin America on October 2, 2023, and it is made available on Discovery+ after the premiere. The series later premiered on Family Channel in Canada on November 3, 2023. Prior to that, a sneak peek of the series aired on October 30, 2023, after an airing of the latest film in the Open Season franchise.

As a result of the series premiere of the show, the first three films: Open Season , Open Season 2 and Open Season 3 were aired between November 3 and 5, respectively. The French dub of the series premiered on Télémagino in Canada on February 4, 2024. The series was then followed by a German dub, which premiered on Disney Channel on February 5, 2024.

The series was broadcast on ABC Entertains in Australia in February 1, 2024, and was made available on ABC iview. The series premiered on Minimax in Czechia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia in April 2024. The series made itd debut in summer 2024 during the Okoo block on either France 3 or France 4 in France and on Cartoon Network in some parts of Europe and Asia. In the UK, the series premiered on Nickelodeon in July 2024.

In the United States, the series is currently available on YouTube. [3] The series is available on Max in Latin America since February 2024, with the first ten episodes of the second segment of the eleventh episode. Episodes of the show are also available on The Roku Channel, Amazon Prime Video, and Tubi. [4] It will be available on Disney+ later. [5]

On October 10, 2024, 9 Story Distribution announced several licensing deals for the series with DR TV (Denmark), RTS (Switzerland), AMC Networks (CEE) Canal Panda (Portugal), RTÉ (Ireland), Paramount Media Networks (UK, Italy), Tubi, Roku, and Xumo (all three US), e.tv (South Africa), and PCCW (Hong Kong and Macau). [6] [7]

Notes

  1. Episodes have premiered early on Discovery Kids in Latin America, ABC Me in Australia, and Disney Channel in Germany.
  2. The series first premiered in Latin America on October 2, 2023.

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References

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  5. "Premiering today on @Family_Channel with the amazing talent of @jlangdon17 🐻, directing prowess of @alysontheother and @kauf13 . On @Disney plus in 2024. Definitely take a peek! Thanks for allowing me the opportunity to play 🦌 Elliot #OpenSeasonCallofNature" . Retrieved March 16, 2024.
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