Screen Australia Whets It’s “Willy” For New Animated Comedy

We just showed you a week or so ago the projects that came from the 2024 class of Screen Australia‘s Fresh Blood production efforts, now we need to get in on the potential future. One of those projects is a new adult animated comedy series from Ludo Holdings called Willy from Samuel Leighton-Dore and Bradley Tennant with a proposal for 10×24 minute episodes.

Willy is a 10-part coming-of-age animated series. It’s 2003 and 15-year-old Willy is on the cusp of a sexual awakening, which would be great if he wasn’t stuck in the rural sugarcane farming town of Toee. Willy’s only salvation is his colourful imagination and the cast of fantastical friends who inhabit it, including razor-tongued rescue cat Beverley and a scornful op-shop portrait of the Virgin Mary. But soon the arrival of hot new neighbour Jack threatens to bust Willy’s carefully constructed inner-world wide open, changing the lives of Toee locals forever.

Could we have the next Michael Cusack on our hands? Only time will tell.