Canada’s “The Beachcombers” To Be Adapted Into An Animated Series

Long-time Canadian TV live-action comedy drama series The Beachcombers is being adapted as a new animated series. The series is expected to be pitched to networks and streamers by Spring 2023.

For those that don’t know, The Beachcombers ran for over 350 episodes making it one of Canada’s longest-lasting series. Now, producers Blair Peters and Nick Orchard are teaming up to produce an animated adaptation of the series that followed the life of Nick Adonidas, a Greek-Canadian log salvager in British Columbia who earned a living travelling the coastline northwest of Vancouver with his partner Jesse Jim aboard their logging tug Persephone tracking down logs that broke away from barges and logging booms. The series also focused on a supporting cast of characters in Nick’s hometown of Gibsons, often centering on a café, Molly’s Reach, run by Molly, a mother figure to virtually all the characters in the series (including Relic). Molly had two grandchildren living with her, Hughie and his younger sister Margaret.

[h/t: ET Canada]

Update 7/6: Slap Happy Cartoons will produce the series.