Powerbirds

Powerbirds is an animated children's television series created by Stephen P. Breen and co-created by Jennifer Monier-Williams and produced by Brown Bag Films. The series is about Max and his pet parakeets who owns it and transforms into superhero birds called the powerbirds, after Max leaves for school. The powerbirds find themselves to save the city from danger, and will stop him against the animal friends who are villains.

The series premiered on 19 January 2020, on Universal Kids. The series is available in 18 languages and his aired over 50 countries worldwide.

Premise
The series follows a boy named Max with his pair of parakeets, Ace and Polly. Max counts on them to keep saving the day while he is away. The powerbirds save the city from danger and they stop the villains: Nibbles the poodle, Clawdette the tabby cat, Scrapper the raccoon, Asher Stasher the flying squirrel and Minerva the owlet from the events where Max will be going later, so then later, Max is excited to visit the events.

Main

 * Cory Doran as Ace, a determined, daring, and playful yellow parakeet who can turn into a superhero when trouble calls. When he is not fighting bad guys, he loves everything related to superheroes, and he is a food-loving bird.
 * Tara Strong as Polly, a very silly and creative blue parakeet who, like ace, can also turn into a superhero. Polly can think outside of the box to solve problems. She has extra powers like super stretching herself that Ace does not have.

Supporting

 * Orlando Lucas as Max, an imaginative eight-year-old boy, who owns Polly and Ace. He loves comic books that are about superheroes and counts on Ace and Polly to make sure no danger is around the city when he is away, despite him not seeing them saving the day like the other humans can.
 * Ana Sani as Gwen, Max’s little sister, who sometimes plays with him before they both leave to wherever they are going and would usually play as another character in his superhero games.
 * Paloma Nuñez as Mrs. Lopez, a bookmobile driver who speaks in a Hispanic accent.
 * Deven Mack as Grandpa Felix, Max’s grandfather who would appear in some episodes prior to the mission and the lesson one of the Powerbirds must remember. These episodes are "Time to Dino-soar", "The Powerbirds Pretender", "Midnight Scrap", "Wacky Wokka Walk", and "Scrapper’s Magnet Mayhem".

Villans

 * Rob Tinkler as Nibbles, a selfish and greedy white poodle who wears a purple hat and suit, and speaks in a British accent. She tries to gain attention to become famous, but ends up causing disasters, mostly because he only thinks of himself and does not know why the famous people are loved.
 * Evany Rosen as Clawdette, an orange tabby cat, Max’s pet, and the Powerbirds’ adoptive sister. She believes that she is the best ninja, so she tries to get stuff so she can be the best at it, and he dressed up in a pink ninja clothing. In "Power Meower Saves the Day", she actually helped Polly and Ace by wearing out Asher Stasher, and she helps them again in "Food Caper", when Scrapper was stealing the cat food for himself to eat.
 * Tyler Muree as Scrapper, a brown striped raccoon whose all the other people's food are stolen. His favorite food is pizzas. He speaks in a New York accent, and seems to be the least villainous of them because all he wants is food.
 * Cory Doran as Asher Stasher, a weird-liking, gray and white flying squirrel, who wears glasses and a blue shirt with an acorn icon. He is trying to use a giant robot suit and collect all the stuff for his "collection of shiny things". However, she sometimes wants stuff that is too big and decides that he either does not want it anyway or gets interrupted by a phone call from his mom. Despite being a flying squirrel, his bushy tail is big so he can not fly.
 * Shannon Hamilton as Minerva, an infamous brown owlet. She can use different tools to cause trouble such as bad dream bubbles, magic mirrors, consoles, and more to make it herself smarter than the humans are.

Episodes
The series has been picked up for 20 22-minute episodes. It premiered early on its original network for its first look of the show on 1 January 2020.

Production
Universal Pictures has chosen to make a TV series out of Breen's children's books, which are published by Penguin, include Stick, Violet the Pilot, Pug and Doug, Unicorn Executions and Skyhorse, and the choice was Powerbirds. Universal Kids planned the series in 2017, but with a different style, before Sprout’s rebrand to Universal Kids, a different style of the characters, which was Max, Polly, Ace and another character, the Golden Eagle.

9 Story Media Group's live-action and animation division co-produced the series with animators from Brown Bag Films.

Reception
Universal Kids stated Hollywood Life that "The series promotes underlying positive messages that we can all be our own superhero if we do the right thing."

Release
In 2017, Universal Kids, as Sprout, set a release date for Powerbirds in 2019, but on December 11, 2019, the show was delayed to a 2020 release date instead to January 19, 2020, and the show got a first look release on January 1, 2020. The show will also air on Family Jr. in Canada.