Tuesday, July 07, 2020

How 'DeadEndia' Nearly Became a Nickelodeon's Animated Series

London, UK-based animation show runner, writer and comics creator Hamish Steele has revealed in a interview with Our Culture that his brand new animated series, DeadEndia, based on his hit horror-comedy graphic novels of the same name was once destined for Nickelodeon!


DeadEndia “follows the adventures of Barney and Norma, two humans who stumble upon the supernatural secrets of Dead End, an amusement park haunted house! Joining their adventures are Pugsley, a pug possessed by a demon king, and Courtney, the guardian of the elevator to the 13 Planes of Existence!”

Talking to Our Culture, Steele revealed: "My first proper job in the industry was a DeadEndia short for Cartoon Hangover. We developed that for a little bit at Nickelodeon but it didn’t end up happening. But I did do a couple of pilots there and they got me in touch with Blink Industries and I’ve worked there ever since."

Steele added: "Between the short and now, I developed DeadEndia into a webcomic on the side and the planets ended up aligning where Alexi Wheeler, the guy who originally wanted to make DeadEndia at Nickelodeon, moved over to Netflix. Sometimes it takes many years for the right time, right place to happen but it does happen."

Whilst DeadEndia didn't happen at Nickelodeon, Steele did get to make a couple of animated shorts for the Nickelodeon International Animated Shorts Program: The Tall Tales of Urchin and Badly Drawn Animals.

You can read Our Culture's exclusive interview with Hamish Steele here. To find out more about Hamish Steele, visit https://hamishsteele.co.uk.

A DeadEndia animated series is currently in development at Netflix.

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