Here’s what Mr. Peabody (right) and Sherman will look like in Netflix and DreamWorks Animation’s reboot of the popular animated series. Mr. Peabody is famous for being a beagle two-time Olympian, inventor, and Nobel laureate, among other accolades. The studio took a $57 million impairment charge for the first quarter of 2014 because of poor box office results for “Mr. Peabody and Sherman”. For Netflix, picking up a baker’s dozen episodes of The New Mr. Peabody and Sherman Show is an easy way to bolster its portfolio of kids’ shows – and if it can snare some parents and grandparents with fond memories of their own childhoods, that’s just a bonus. DreamWorks Animation released a full-length animated feature starring the characters previous year, Mr.
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Chris Parnell (30 Rock, SNL) will voice Mr. Peabody, and Max Charles (American Sniper, The wonderful Spider-Man) will voice Sherman.
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Peabody and Sherman Show (13 x half-hour) is based on the 1960s shorts interwoven with elements of DWA’s CG movie, and will recast the hyper brainy dog and his slightly less clever boy as the hosts of a latenight comedy show filmed in their cosmopolitan Manhattan penthouse in front of a live audience. The film’s failure obviously wasn’t enough to dissuade the studio from doing more with the property, as it’s producing the series for Netflix. Smith previously directed Cartoon Network’s The Powerpuff Girls: Dance Pantsed, Steven Universe, The unbelievable World of Gumball and Dexter’s Laboratory. “We loved the straight-up lampooning of historical figures”, Smith said.
