Amazon and the Roots team up to create 2 new children series (Thompson: neighborhoods, live)

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Amazon Developing 2 Children’s Series With Hip-Hop Band The Roots | Deadline

Amazon has teamed with Grammy-winning hip-hop band The Roots and their Passyunk Productions to develop an animated children’s series, South Street Sounds (working title), along with a live-action children’s series. Both projects will be executive produced by The Roots’ Tarik Trotter and Ahmir Thompson, their manager Shawn Gee (Soundclash) for Philly Films, and Brian Sher (Boss) for Category 5 Entertainment.

Written by Becky Friedman (Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood) and featuring music by The Roots, South Street Sounds follows three friends growing up in the most musical of neighborhoods, where the birds tweet to a beat, every shop-keeper, pizza-maker and crossing guard dance perfectly in time, and having a bad day means literally singing the blues. With such musical surroundings, it’s only natural that these three friends have formed a band called “South Street.” Together, creative-scatterbrain Zora, future-entrepreneur Nick, and disaster-averse Tyson, pride themselves on playing gigs for any occasion: no event is too big or too small! No details are being provided about the live-action series.

I will definitely be keeping my eye on this. The Roots are great supporters of the city and it is cool to see one at least involving South Street in someway!

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Maybe they are just waiting to announce the HQ and the shows at the same time