Powerbirds facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Powerbirds
Genre	Children's television series Action
Created by	Stephen P. Breen Jennifer Monier-Williams
Directed by	William Gordon
Voices of	Cory Doran Tara Strong
Theme music composer	PT Walkley
Opening theme	"Powerbirds" performed by Adam Sanders and Carmen Yanuzielle
Ending theme	"Powerbirds" (instrumental)
Composer(s)	Ropey Sound
Country of origin	United States Ireland
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	19
Production
Executive producer(s)	Cathal Gaffney Darragh O'Connell
Producer(s)	Uma Krishnamurthy
Editor(s)	Mark Edwards Sam Smith Andy Brittain
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	HappyAnimation Brown Bag Films
Distributor	NBCUniversal Television Distribution
Release
Original network	Universal Kids
Original release	January 19, 2020 (2020-01-19) – present

Powerbirds is a American-Irish children's animated television series created by Stephen P. Breen, and co-created by Jennifer Monier-Williams. The series premiered on January 19, 2020 on Universal Kids. This series is produced by HappyAnimation and Brown Bag Films.

Premise

The series follows Max with his pet parakeets, Ace and Polly. Max counts on them to keep saving the day while he is away. The powerbirds save the city from danger and they stop the main villains: Nibbles, Clawdette, Scrapper, Minerva, and Asher Stasher from the events that Max will be going to later, so then later, Max is excited to visit the events.

Characters

Main

• Ace (voice of Cory Doran) is a yellow parakeet who can turn into a superhero when trouble calls. He is determined, daring, and playful. When he's not fighting bad guys, he loves everything related to superheroes, and he's a food loving bird.
• Polly (voice of Tara Strong) is a blue parakeet who can also turn into a superhero like Ace. She is a very silly and creative bird, and can think outside of the box to solve problems. She has extra powers like super stretching herself that Ace doesn’t have.

Supporting

• Max (voice of Orlando Lucas) is an imaginative eight-year-old who owns Polly and Ace. He loves comic books that are about superheroes and counts on Ace and Polly to make sure no danger is around the city when he is away, despite him not seeing them saving the day like the other humans can.
• Gwen (voice of Ana Sani) is Max’s Little Sister who sometimes plays with him before they both leave to wherever they’re going and would usually play as another character in his superhero games.
• Mrs. Lopez (voice of Paloma Nuñez) is a bookmobile driver who speaks in a Hispanic accent.
• Grandpa Felix (voice of Deven Mack) is Max’s grandfather who would appear in some episodes prior to the mission and the lesson one of the Powerbirds must remember. These episodes are “Time to Dino-soar”, “The Powerbirds Pretender”, “Midnight Scrap”, “Wacky Wokka Walk”, and “Scrapper’s Magnet Mayhem”.

Villains

• Nibbles (voice of Rob Tinkler) is a dog who tries to gain attention to become famous but ends up causing disasters, mostly because he only thinks of himself and doesn’t know why the famous people are loved. He speaks in a British accent.
• Clawdette (voice of Evany Rosen) is Max’s cat and The Powerbirds’ adoptive sister. She believes that she is the best ninja, so she tries to get stuff so she can be the best at it. In "Power Meower Saves the Day", she actually helped Polly and Ace by wearing out Asher Stasher and she helps them again in "Food Caper" when Scrapper was stealing the cat food for himself to eat.
• Scrapper (voice of Tyler Muree) is a raccoon that likes to try to steal all other people's food, especially his favorite, pizzas. He seems to be the least villainous of them because all he wants is food. He speaks in a New York accent.
• Minerva (voice of Shannon Hamilton) is an owl who uses different tools to cause trouble such as bad dream bubbles, magic mirrors, consoles, and more to get herself smarter then the humans are.
• Asher Stasher (voice of Cory Doran) is a squirrel that tries to collect stuff for his "collection of shiny things", but sometimes wants stuff that is too big and decides that he either doesn’t want it anyway or gets interrupted by a phone call from his mom.

Episodes

The series has been picked up for 20 22-minute episodes. It premiered early on its original network for its first look of the show on January 1, 2020.

Production

Universal Pictures has chosen to make a TV series out of Breen's children's books, which are published by Penguin, include Stick, Violet the Pilot, Pug and Doug, Unicorn Executions and Skyhorse, and the choice was Powerbirds. Universal Kids planned the series in 2017, but with a different style, before Sprout’s rebrand to Universal Kids, a different style of the characters, which was Max, Polly, Ace and another character, the Golden Eagle.

9 Story Media Group's live-action and animation division co-produced the series with animators from Brown Bag Films.

Release

In 2017, Universal Kids, as Sprout, set a release date for Powerbirds in 2019, but on December 11, 2019, the show was delayed to a 2020 release date instead to January 19, 2020, and the show got a first look release on January 1, 2020.