Breakthrough Animation has gone into production on the first season of its new animated comedy series Jimmy Two Shoes, which the Toronto prodco is producing in collaboration with Teletoon and Jetix Europe. But they’ve dropped that whole ‘little boy in hell’ idea.

The 26 x 30 series has been through an ‘extended development phase,’ according to Breakthrough managing partner Kevin Gillis, adding they’ve made some tweaks and changes to the overall concept.

‘The show is different than what we originally came up with two years ago…we went back into further development in the summer for the new concept,’ he says.

Jimmy was originally about a boy, who, through a series of missteps, ends up in hell, but Gillis explains that broadcasters had concerns about the setting.

The series, which is aimed at kids aged eight to 12, is now set in anguish-laden Miseryville, where Jimmy stirs up fun, to the disgruntlement of its evil ruler, Lucius Heinous the Seventh.

Gillis says Breakthrough is currently casting for voices, with animation set to start in the new year under directors Sean Scott and Jeff Barker.

The toon, already presold to Nickelodeon Latin America, is set to air in January 2009.