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Official poster for the series featuring the Berry Bees. From left to right: Juliette, Lola, and Bobby.
Genre	Action Adventure Comedy Spy
Directed by	Niccolò Sacchi
Creative director(s)	Lisa Arioli Jo Boag
Voices of	Sheena May Nneka Okoye Harriet Kershaw Tim Howar Josie Taylor Harriet Collings Daniel Fletcher Dan Russell Ben Whitehead Colin Cassady
Theme music composer	Fabrizio Baldoni
Opening theme	"Berry Bees" by Filip (StudioPros)
Ending theme	"Berry Bees" (instrumental)
Composer(s)	Fabrizio Baldoni
Country of origin	Italy Australia Ireland India Singapore
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	30 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Caterina Vacchi Suzanne Ryan Paul Cummins Anish Js Mehta Sara Cabras Jo Rooney Andy Ryan Claudia Mazzucco Pietro Marietti
Producer(s)	Lorenza Lazzarini Yasmin Jones Cathy Ní Fhlaithearta
Running time	11 minutes
Production company(s)	Atlantyca Entertainment SLR Productions Telegael Cosmos-Maya Production
Distributor	Atlantyca Entertainment (Asia) Cosmos-Maya (Asia) SLR Productions (Australia and New Zealand) Telegael (UK and Ireland)
Release
Original network	9Go! (Australia) Rai Gulp (Italy)
Picture format	HDTV 1080i
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	5 October 2019 (2019-10-05) – present

Berry Bees is an Australian-Italian animated television series developed for the Nine Network that premiered on 9Go! in Australia on 5 October 2019. The series is based on the Italian book series of the same name by Cat Le Blanc. The series is produced by Atlantyca Entertainment, SLR Productions, Telegael, and Cosmos-Maya Production. The entire series is available to stream on Stan.

The show centers around three young girls who carry out spy missions.

Plot

Bobby, Lola, and Juliette are three extraordinary 10-year-old girls who live a seemingly normal life. However the trio work undercover as the "Berry Bees" for the Bee Intelligence Agency (B.I.A. for short), a secret agency that selected them to carry out special spy missions. The girls, all codenamed after a type of berry, are given gadgets each episode by the head of the agency, Ms. Berry.

Usually the girls have to foil the evil plans of recurring villains such as Tara Bytes, Mirage, and the Greenthumbs. At the end of each episode, the villain escapes the confusion to fight the girls another day while things return to normal.

Characters

Main

• Bobby – An expert in technology and a nerd. Her codename is Raspberry.
• Lola – A skilled contortionist and acrobat. Her codename is Strawberry.
• Juliette – A talented actress and mentalist. Her codename is Blueberry.
• Ms. Berry – The head of the B.I.A.

Recurring

Villains

• Tara Bytes – A diabolical mastermind.
• Mirage – A transformative thief.
• Cosmo and Fauna Greenthumb

Episodes

The first season consists of 52 11-minute episodes.

Broadcast

Berry Bees first premiered on 9Go! in Australia on 5 October 2019. By the 7th episode, premieres suddenly moved from Saturdays to Sundays starting 27 October. In Italy, the series premiered on Rai Gulp on December 16 with episodes 2 and 10. Since two segments are combined into one in the Australian broadcast of the series, the cold open in every second episode that airs is cut, but is retained in the Italian broadcast due to the segments being separately aired.

Awards

On 12 July 2019, the episode "Hypnotic Hair Don't Care" was nominated in the 52nd Annual AWGIE Awards in the "Animation" category, with writer Joel Slack-Smith as a recipient, before the series premiered in Australia. It lost to an episode of Beat Bugs.