Backyard Sports: The Animated Series Revealed at Comic-Con
Today, Playground Productions announced the new animated series Backyard Sports: The Animated Series. The series, featuring the voices of Tiffany Haddish, Donald Faison, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and more, also released a sizzle reel at the San Diego Comic-Con.
Playground Productions Chief Product Officer Chris Waters will serve as showrunner. Juston Gordon-Montgomery serves as supervising director; Adam Aseraf and Sarah Nevada Smith will serve as head writers and co-executive producers.
The series will be produced by Playground CEO Lindsay Barnett, Waters, Ari Pinchot, and Stuart Avi Savitsky, with animation services by Lighthouse Studios. Filmmakers will create 20 episodes of Backyard Sports: The Animated Series, each running about 11 minutes.
Backyard Sports: The Animated Series stars Tiffany Haddish as Kiesha Phillips, Donald Faison as Dante Robinson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Dmitri Petrovich, Arturo Castro as Pablo Sanchez, and Uktarsh Ambudkar as Achmed Khan.
Deborah Baker Jr. as Kimmy Eckman, Michael Vlamis as Tony Delvecchio, Ashleigh Crystal Hairston as Sunny Day, Will Neff as Mr. Clanky, Vincent Tong as Kenny Kawaguchi, Joey Rudman as Marky Dubois, and Lindsay Barnett as Vinnie round out the cast.
The series is based on Backyard Baseball — the full-scale revamp of the beloved 2D arcade-style classic that has captivated kids and adults since 1997. The newly rebooted game launched on July 9th for Steam for Mac and PC, with Nintendo, Xbox, and PlayStation versions arriving soon.
“I am beyond thrilled to announce our series today,” said Lindsay Barnett, CEO of Playground Productions. “The Backyard Sports characters have inspired imaginations for generations, and their stories have always felt bigger than the game itself. As Backyard Baseball expands with the new game on Steam and soon consoles, bringing these characters into new forms of storytelling feels like a natural extension of the Backyard universe.”
The series marks the beginning of something far larger. Playground Productions is building the “Backyardiverse” — a connected world where sports, storytelling, and culture all come together. The all-new Backyard Baseball video game is not simply a throwback; it is the kickoff to a whole new era of Backyard Sports.
