Beat Bugs to sing for CBC Kids

The Beatles-inspired Netflix series will make its Canadian broadcast debut in February.

Netflix’s Beatles-inspired children’s series Beat Bugs is headed to CBC Kids.

Season one and two of the animated series will debut on the pubcaster’s kids channel on Feb. 26. It is set to air at 7:30 a.m. weekday mornings and at 8 a.m. on Saturdays.

Beat Bugs is produced by Australia- and U.S.-based production company, Grace: A Storytelling Company, Vancouver’s Thunderbird Entertainment and its animation arm Atomic Cartoons, as well as Sydney, Australia-based Beyond Screen Production. Beat Bugs was renewed for a second season ahead of its series premiere on Netflix in August 2016.

Created by Grace’s Josh Wakely and exec produced by Martin Bandier, Beat Bugs follows bugs who explore their backyard with Beatles renditions incorporated into each episode. Musical artists who contribute to the series include P!nk, James Corden, Sia, Of Monsters and Men, Eddie Vedder, The Shins, Chris Cornell and Regina Spektor, to name a few.

Netflix previously inked a worldwide rights deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing to allow Beat Bugs to record covers of Beatles songs from the Lennon/McCartney “Northern Songs” catalogue.

Thunderbird boarded the show as a coproducer in February 2016. The kids show was nominated for best children or youth fiction series at this years’ CSAs.