"Ghosts"

Netflix greenlights another animated series (hardly a surprise) ...

Netflix has ordered a new kids animated series, City of Ghosts, from first-time showrunner Elizabeth Ito (Adventure Time, Welcome to My Life).

City of Ghosts is described as a hybrid documentary and animated series in which a group of kids discover stories around their city by communicating directly with the ghosts who inhabit it.

Ito, an Emmy-winning director and writer on Cartoon Network’s animated series Adventure Time and creator of the Cartoon Network short Welcome to My Life, will executive produce and serve as showrunner.

Kindly note that the new colossus in town Netflix, has poached Ms. Ito away from Cartoon Network.

This can be considered a trend.

Netflix is building nw animation facilities like mad, there in downtwon Hollywood (cheek by jowl to the old Warners/KTLA studio). Netflix knows it has to be in animation long-term, and that the Mouse named Mickey will shortly be breathing down its corporate neck in the cartoon department. So speed and aggressiveness is a high priority.

Naturally, this will be a great boon to animation employees working in Los Angeles. More jobs are better than fewer jobs.