‘Gumby Kids’ In The Works With Fox’s Bento Box Alongside Adult Animated Series

Peter White

6 June 2024 at 12:39 pm·2-min read

EXCLUSIVE: Gumby is getting closer to his official comeback.

Fox’s Bento Box Entertainment is developing an animated kids version of the show as well as an adult animated iteration based on the classic character after it acquired the rights to the universe in 2022.

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Gumby Kids comes from Deeki Deke, who wrote on the first season of Disney’s Mickey Mouse shorts and was head writer for all three seasons of Netflix’s The Cuphead Show!

The kids project is being taken out to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the major animation market, which takes place next week.

In the show, Gumby is the friendly, green, shapeshifting architect and city planner for Gumbtasia, a new city open to all outcasts, misfits and dreamers from nearby fantastical lands. Determined to build a Gumbtasia that works for everybody, Gumby often winds up in the center of conflict and chaos – but nobody is more adept at adapting than a shapeshifter.

Joining Gumby in Gumbtasia are best friend Pokey, Prickle, a cranky half dragon, half dinosaur, Goo, an open-minded and free-spirited flying blue mermaid and The Blockheads, Gumby’s incompetent, annoying, yet harmless, foes who encroach on Gumby’s role as City Planner of Gumbtasia.

Deke will write and exec produce alongside Stephen Davis, former EVP and Chief Content Officer of Hasbro, and Still Entertainment’s Will Davis.

Stephen Davis and Bento Box Head of Production Dana Cameron will attend the French event as they shop the series to potential buyers and co-production partners. It is being set up as a 52-part series, featuring 11-minute episodes, for kids aged eight to 12.

“We want to bring the character to kids, a lot of kids don’t know Gumby but the parents are the ones that are really going to vibe with Gumby Kids [initially]. Deeki Deke, who is our showrunner, is amazing and we feel that he’s got a really strong idea for the series that we’re really excited about,” Cameron told Deadline.

Bento Box will bring a treatment, script, artwork and a little bit of animation to Annecy to entice buyers. “We’ve got a strong pitch and strong designs,” she added.

The company is best known for producing adult animated shows such as Krapopolis and Grimsburg but it also has a healthy kids business. It has Wolfboy and the Everything Factory on Apple, Moon and Me for the BBC, Octonauts and the Great Barrier Reef and The Who Was? Show at Netflix and Future-Worm! with Disney XD.

Cameron added that once it gets Gumby Kids up and running, it will turn its focus to the primetime series.

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