TORONTO -- Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana and Sony Pictures Animation have announced the debut details of their new animated series Hotel Transylvania: The Series, based on the film franchise of the same name. The 26 x 22-minute series, produced at the Nelvana studio in Toronto, focuses on the teenage years of Dracula’s daughter, Mavis, and her three closest friends Hank N Stein, Pedro and Wendy Blob.

With Dracula away on “official vampire business,” Mavis finally sees her chance to show her father what she can do. With the help of her friends, she decides to put her brilliant ideas of how to run the Hotel into motion, but Aunt Lydia, Dracula’s older and much meaner sister pushes for order and tradition at the Hotel.

Hotel Transylvania: The Series premieres on Disney Channel on Sunday, June 25th at 8pm ET/PT, with new episodes airing every night at 8pm ET/PT through Thursday, June 29th. The first episode will be available on the Disney Channel app, YouTube and VOD on Tuesday, June 20th. The series will air in its regular timeslot beginning Sunday, July 9th at 8:30pm ET/PT on the Disney Channel.

Three new Hotel Transylvania shorts will air leading up to the series debut. The shorts follow Mavis and her dad Drac as he prepares to join the prestigious Vampire Council. These shorts will also be available on the Disney Channel app and Disney Channel YouTube.

“We are thrilled to be teaming up with Disney Channel to share the visual and epic storytelling of Hotel Transylvania: The Series with audiences worldwide,” said Scott Dyer, president, Nelvana. “Working with our partners at Sony Pictures Animation, we are excited to build on the incredible global success of the franchise and bring the world of Hotel Transylvania to the small screen and family-friendly digital platforms.”

“We are so excited to expand the Hotel Transylvania franchise into television,” said Rick Mischel, executive producer at Sony Pictures Animation. “We look forward to bringing the prequel to audiences worldwide and to sharing the hilarious adventures of a younger Mavis and her monster pals. As we look to the upcoming launch of the original short Puppy! In theaters this summer and Hotel Transylvania 3 in 2018, the television series will keep the franchise fresh and the characters will become a part of families’ everyday lives.”

The 2013 monster comedy hit, Hotel Transylvania, was nominated for a Golden Globe and scored the best September opening of all time at the US box office, only to have its record broken by the 2015 sequel Hotel Transylvania 2. Both films were produced by Sony Pictures Animation and distributed by Columbia Pictures.

Sony Pictures Television is the US distributor and Nelvana Enterprises is the foreign distributor of Hotel Transylvania: The Series.

Source: Sony Pictures Animation