Overview
- Paramount+ announced series orders for two animated adaptations of Mo Willems’ bestselling children’s books aimed at pre‑K audiences.
- The Elephant & Piggie Show! focuses on the joys and challenges of best-friendship in the walkable neighborhood of Willemsburg, pairing careful Gerald with carefree Piggie.
- The Pigeon Show! Starring the Pigeon follows a bird determined to be heard and features familiar characters like Duckling alongside new additions such as Nana‑Dactyl.
- Both series are produced by Willems’ Hidden Pigeon Company in the first collaboration between the studio and Paramount+.
- Jane Wiseman of Paramount+ and Hidden Pigeon CEO Karen K. Miller endorsed the projects in statements, and Deadline reported the pickup bypassed Nickelodeon as an opportunistic arrangement.