Play Room Acquires Broadcasting Rights To Lego City Adventures + Makes Several Schedule Adjustments

Some consumers may have noticed that aside from Play Room Live being reduced to half an hour with its Reloaded offering on weekends scrapped. Play Room also reduced and yanked away a bunch of shows from its lineup like Batwheels, Nicky Ricky Dicky And Dawn and Iron Man: Armoured Adventures.

With its movie offering being the only major booster as there's been a lot of adult favoured films such as Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm, Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage The Cowardly and Spider-Man Across The Spiderverse.

We can only assume that similar to eToonz, Ngwato Nkosi Group who manage the channel are currently reviewing it's lineup and most likely making minor budget cuts. Take for instance, Play Room Live being a half hour show we can only assume the show is not financially liable.

That's what happened with Hectic Nine 9 on SABC 2, now the program went from airing 5 days a week for an hour to 2/3 days a week for half an hour.

Another has to do with the dubbed animated content on their channel. Play Room had garnered traction for the dubbing shows like Cocomelon and Supa Strikas yet they've moved at a rather slow pace in allocating more episodes to these titles so I wouldn't be surprised if they opted to source from third parties.

From Monday 18 August, Play Room is set to allocate a new animated series LEGO City Adventures.

LEGO City Adventures explores the intertwining paths of the city's everyday heroes as they work together to stop a mysterious master criminal who begins to wreak havoc on their town.

Citizens of LEGO City featured throughout the series include: Sergeant Duke DeTain (Joe Zieja, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4), an overly heroic cop; Freya McCloud (Misty Lee, DC Super Hero Girls), a crisis-ready fire chief; Shirley Keeper (Alex Cazares, The Loud House), the grumpy street sweeper; Harl Hubbs (Daniel MK Cohen, Fixed), an overeager handyman; Tippy Dorman (James Arnold Taylor, Star Wars: The Clone Wars), an expert doorman with a secret; Solomon Fleck (Roger Craig Smith, Avengers Assemble), the dedicated city mayor; Percival “Wheelie” Wheeler (Mick Lauer, Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal), a skateboarding police chief and more.

Created and produced by LEGO Group, LEGO City Adventures is also produced by Flaunt Animation (Scotland) and Passion Pictures (France) and written by Jon Colton Barry (Phineas and Ferb), Steven Banks (SpongeBob SquarePants), Jamie Moyer (Modern Family) and Brian Hunt (Second City Chicago). Jason Oliveri is the executive in charge of LEGO City Adventures for Nickelodeon.