Space Chickens in Space is a science fiction-comedy animated television series created by José C. García de Letona and Rita Street and developed by Tommy and Markus Vad Flaaten, Alan Keane, Shane Perez, and Scott Sonneborn for 9Go! and Disney XD. The series was produced by Ánima Estudios, Studio Moshi, Gingerbread Animation, and distributed by Cake Entertainment, 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 Nick Mohammed 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 Damien Garvey) 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 9Go! in Australia on September 30, 2018, on 2x2 TV Channel in Russia on January 1, 2020, and had its Disney XD premiere in Europe, Middle-East and Africa on 19 November 2018. In April 2022, all episodes and shorts were made available on Disney+.