''Berry Bees'' is an Italian-Australian

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developed for the

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that premiered on

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in Australia on 5 October 2019. The series is based on the Italian book series of the same name by Cat Le Blanc. The series is produced by Atlantyca Entertainment, SLR Productions, Telegael, and Cosmos-Maya Production. The entire series is available to stream on

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. The show centers around three young girls who carry out spy missions.

Plot

Bobby, Lola, and Juliette are three extraordinary 10-year-old girls who live a seemingly normal life. However the trio work undercover as the "Berry Bees" for the Bee Intelligence Agency (B.I.A. for short), a secret agency that selected them to carry out special spy missions. The girls, all codenamed after a type of berry, are given gadgets each episode by the head of the agency, Ms. Berry. Usually the girls have to foil the evil plans of recurring villains such as Tara Bytes, Mirage, and the Greenthumbs. At the end of each episode, the villain escapes the confusion to fight the girls another day while things return to normal.

Characters

Main

* Bobby – An expert in technology and a nerd. Her codename is Raspberry. * Lola – A skilled contortionist and acrobat. Her codename is Strawberry. * Juliette – A talented actress and mentalist. Her codename is Blueberry. * Ms. Berry – The head of the B.I.A.

Villains

* Tara Bytes – A corrupt tech mogul. Her plots usually focus on advanced technology. * Aaron Mirage – A thief who can assume the identity of anyone. * Cosmo and Fauna Greenthumb – A bickering old couple who wish to make the environment better for animals.

Production

On 16 October 2018, it was announced that an animated series based on the '' Berry Bees'' book series was being produced. The series is produced by Atlantyca Entertainment in Italy, SLR Productions in Australia, Telegael in Ireland, and Cosmos-Maya Production in India. The show's visual team found their inspiration in ''

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movies. The director, Niccolò Sacchi also singled out ''

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'' for its character and action scenes. He looked at ''

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'' all the time, "because of the show’s fantastic direction and staging of the shots." The team's reference for design was ''

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''. " ewanted to have the same feel for the characters with no outline and where shadows were used to give depth to the characters' skin and expressions."

Episodes

The first season consists of 52 11-minute episodes.

Broadcast

''Berry Bees'' first premiered on

in Australia on 5 October 2019. By the 7th episode, premieres suddenly moved from Saturdays to Sundays starting 27 October. In Italy, the series premiered on

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on December 16 with episodes 2 and 10. Since two segments are combined into one in the Australian broadcast of the series, the

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in every second episode that airs is cut, but is retained in the Italian broadcast due to the segments being separately aired.

Awards

On 12 July 2019, the episode "Hypnotic Hair Don't Care" was nominated in the 52nd Annual

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in the "Animation" category, with writer Joel Slack-Smith as a recipient, before the series premiered in Australia. It lost to an episode of ''

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''.

References

External links

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