''Space Chickens in Space'' is a Mexican-British-Irish-Australian

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created by José C. García de Letona and Rita Street and developed by Scott Sonneborn, Tommy and Markus Vad Flaaten, Alan Keane, and Shane Perez for

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and

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. The series was produced by Ánima Estudios, Cake Entertainment, Studio Moshi, Gingerbread Animation and

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, with the participation of Disney EMEA.

Plot

Chuck, Starley, and Finley are taken from their home and mistakenly enrolled in an elite intergalactic former military academy. It would take all their strength, and teamwork, to survive every escapade they have.

Characters

Main

* Chuck (voiced by David Menkin) is a male tall chicken who is the leader of the chicken siblings. He is cool, daring, and wacky. He can be selfish and stubborn when it comes to challenges, but he is a true softie when it comes to his siblings. He is the youngest of the three. * Finley (voiced by

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and Dash Kruck) is a male short chicken who is the brains of the chicken siblings. He is smart, inquisitive, and mostly calm-mannered. But he can become short-tempered when no one (especially his brother and sister) describes his ideas as good ideas. He is the oldest of the three. * Starley (voiced by Laura Aikman) is a female chicken who is the loving one of the siblings. Being the middle sister, Starley always looks after her brothers and defends them no matter what. She also has born super-strength.

Recurring

* Glargg (voiced by Roger Gregg and

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) is a Green Alien. * Niven (voiced by Lynette Callaghan) is a Female Blue Alien.

Production

''Space Chickens in Space'' is fully animated in-house at Studio Moshi (Australia) using their bespoke hybrid Harmony animation pipeline, incorporating a mixture of hand-drawn and rigged high-quality animation. Studio Moshi provided animation direction, design (original production-ready characters and original world development), storyboard supervision & artwork, hand-crafted digital animation, visual FX.

Release

The series premiered on

in Australia on 30 September 2018, on 2x2 TV Channel in Russia on 1 January 2020, and had its

premiere in Europe, Middle-East and Africa on 19 November 2018. In April 2022, all episodes and shorts were made available on

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Episodes

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