GBH Boston and Atomic Cartoon’s award-winning and ground-breaking animated series Molly Denali has been renewed for a second season at PBS – but not for Canada.

CBC Kids, which was a broadcast partner on season one with PBS, will not be involved in season two, Playback Daily has confirmed. A spokesperson for CBC said there are currently “no plans to air season two of Molly of Denali,” but season one will continue to be available to view on CBC Gem. There is no Canadian broadcaster currently attached to season two, according to a spokesperson from GBH.

“CBC Kids was a commissioning partner on season one of Molly of Denali spanning 80 individual episodes, which has provided ample content for our programming rotation on television and the CBC Kids streaming library on CBC Gem,” said Marie McCann, senior director of CBC Kids, in a statement. “We’re thrilled with Molly’s success and proud to have supported the creation of such a landmark series.”

Produced by Thunderbird Entertainment’s animation studio Atomic Cartoons and GBH Boston, the series about a young Alaska Native girl living in the fictional village of Qyah, Alaska.  PBS has ordered 23 half-hour episodes and a one-hour special, with Indigenous languages from Alaska worked into the episodes.

The new season comes with digital games and educational resources on PBS, as well as a Molly of Denali podcast.

Season one earned critical acclaim and awards success, including a Peabody Award for a children’s and youth program and a Television Critics Association award for Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming. The first season reached more than 42 million viewers on PBS Kids, according to the U.S. pubcaster, stating that the series is “the first nationally distributed children’s program to feature Native American and Alaska Native lead characters in all aspects of the production, both on screen and behind the scenes.”

A number of CBC programs have come to an end in 2021. Both Kim’s Convenience and Trickster had their initial renewals reversed; Trickster ended in the wake of questions around the Indigenous identity of co-creator, director and executive producer Michelle Latimer, while Kim’s Convenience ended following the departure of its creators. Frankie Drake Mysteries was also cancelled after its fourth season, while Burden of Truth‘s producers announced the show would end with its fourth season.