Release date: December 17, 2024 on Disney+.
Episode title: O C’mon All Ye Faithful.
Synopsis: Famed British mentalist, Derren Brown, comes to Springfield and uses psychological tricks and showmanship to raise the town’s Christmas spirit.
When Homer gets hypnotized and mistakenly believes he is Santa Claus, it sets off a cheery chain-reaction and causes everyone to question what they believe and to explore the meaning of “miracle.”
Release date: January 16, 2024 on Netflix.
Season 2 synopsis: Now joined by the legendary Alucard, Richter Belmont and his band of vampire hunters are in a desperate race against time.
Erzsebet Báthory, the Vampire Messiah, who already seems invincible, seeks the full power of the goddess Sekhmet so she can plunge the world into endless darkness and terror.
Series synopsis: In a remote part of western France — at the height of the French Revolution — the counter-revolutionary aristocracy has forged an alliance with a terrifying Vampire Messiah, who promises to “eat the sun” and unleash an army of vampires and night creatures to crush the revolution and enslave humanity.
Annette, a sorceress from the Caribbean, seeks out Richter Belmont, last descendant of the long-fabled family of vampire hunters, to lead the resistance.
Release date: December 13, 2024 on Hulu and CBC Gem.
Synopsis: Cedric, a pumpkin farmer turned knight, has embarked on many quests — from saving towns to defeating monsters.
Now he’s started a new chapter with his prince charming and their daughter Nia, who aspires to become a knight just like him.
Cedric has battled trolls, witches, and even dragons… but his greatest challenge yet? Teaching Nia how to navigate the path to knighthood while being true to one’s self.
Created by Daniel Errico.
Release date: February 6, 2025 on Prime Video.
Series synopsis: Invincible follows 17-year-old Mark Grayson, as he inherits his father’s superpowers and sets out to become Earth’s greatest defender, only to discover the job is more challenging than he could have ever imagined.
Everything changes as Mark is forced to face his past, and his future, while discovering how much further he’ll need to go to protect the people he loves.
Synopsis: To prove himself to his gangster father, Alessandro decides to rob a local bar. What he doesn’t expect is to encounter a surprising side of his father’s world: Lady Victoria the drag queen.
Written and directed by:
João Buosi
Yangjia Chen
Adam Meziane Philipps
Carla Sampaio da Silva
Xinxin Qin
Zhen Zhou
Music by Alexandre Treille.
Sound by Mathieu Tiger.
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Release date: January 11, 2025 on Disney Channel. Spring, 2025 on Disney+.
Synopsis: The series follows six overambitious middle schoolers tricked into attending a fake academic summer camp by a mad scientist.
Now they’re stuck for three months on a wild tropical island with mind-reading manatees, giant fighting fungi and fashion-forward mutants — less academia than they’d hoped for but a lot more adventure.
(StuGo is short for student government.)
Created by Ryan Gillis (Pickle and Peanut, The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse).
Release date: December 13, 2024.
Season 2 release date: January 24, 2025.
Synopsis: The series stars Eva, a creative owlet who lives next door to her best friend Lucy in the woodland world of Treetopington. With big ideas and an even bigger personality, Eva goes on high-flying adventures, expressing herself in her diary along the way.
In the upcoming holiday special titled “Eva’s Moon Wish,” as Treetopington celebrates a special holiday, Eva helps a lost oriole look for his family — and learns the true meaning of community.
Season two takes viewers through a night in the life of Eva. Whether she’s planning a backyard campout with her friends or saving the town’s Spring Acorn Roll from hungry squirrels, Eva tackles her goals with conviction and flair.
Release date: March 21, 2025.
Directed by: Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man, (500) Days of Summer).
Written by: Greta Gerwig (Barbie, Little Women) and Erin Cressida Wilson (The Girl on the Train, Vinyl).
Original songs by: Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (The Greatest Showman, La La Land).
Release date: December 25, 2024 on BBC One.
Synopsis: Tiddler is a little fish with a big imagination. Every day he creates a new story to entertain his classmates, and especially his best friend Johnny Dory.
One morning, while dreaming up his latest story, Tiddler gets lost in the middle of the ocean. He has no hope of getting home until he hears a familiar story and is saved by his own storytelling.
Tiddler is a half-hour animated special directed by Andy Martin and Alex Bain, written by Michael Bohnenstingl, based on the book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler.
Synopsis: Mother and Father lay the child in his cot at the same time every night. However, come morning, only a shallow crater remains; a baby-shaped depression. The boy was destined to be a wanderer.
A short film by Stephen Irwin.
World to Roam was longlisted for a BAFTA, won the Audience Award at Vienna Shorts, Best International Short at Animatricks, received a Special Distinction Prize at BIAF, the Eadweard Muybridge prize at KIFF and a special mention at LIAF.
Written and directed by Jeanette Jeanenne, a Panamanian-American filmmaker based in Los Angeles and a graduate of CalArts.
Music and sound by Robert Allaire. Backgrounds by Josh Shaffner. Animation by Kevin Eskew, Kyle Brooks and Jeanette Jeanenne. Produced for FX Networks.
Penthouse is a six-member band consisting of Shintaro Namioka (vocals, guitar), Maho Oshima (vocals), Cateen (piano), Shintaro Yano (guitar), Takuma Ohara (bass) and Tatsunori Hirai (drums).
“Taxi to the Moon” appears on the Laundry album.
Animated and directed by Tomoyuki Niho.
Synopsis: Hélène, 40 years old, comes to visit her aging mother in the french countryside. But her mother isn’t being her usual self. She seems to have formed a strange bond with the plants, insects, and the old oak tree at the end of her garden…
Written and directed by:
Sofiia Chuikovska
Loïck du Plessis d’Argentré
Lina Han
Simin He
Jiaxin Huang
Maud Le Bras
Bingqing Shu
Sound and music by Jérémy Ben Ammar.
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Release date: April 11, 2025.
Inspired by Charles Dickens’ The Life of Our Lord.
Synopsis: While Dickens was a loving father, his work often kept him distant from his family. In particular he struggled to connect with his youngest son Walter, a five-year-old dreamer who is inseparable from his best friend Willa the cat.
One day, Dickens’ reading performance at a London theatre is ruined by Walter’s mischievous behavior. Dickens pleads to his son to try and enjoy the reading but Walter is not interested.
His wife Catherine, aware of Walter’s obsession with King Arthur, urges Dickens to tell his son the story of another king: Jesus Christ.
Release date: July 5, 2025 on Netflix.
Synopsis: Two best friends, Yoshiki and Hikaru, live in a rural Japanese village. They are inseparable — until the day Hikaru returns from the mountains, no longer himself. Something has taken over Hikaru’s body, memories, and feelings, and everything they know begins to unravel.
Crew:
Directed by Ryohei Takeshita.
Based on the manga by Mokumokuren.
Character design by Yuichi Takahashi.
Music by Taro Umebayashi.
Ending theme song: “Anata wa Kaibutsu (you are my monster)” by TOOBOE.
Animation production by CygamesPictures.
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