Hotel Transylvania: The Series

Hotel Transylvania: The Series
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Genre	Comedy horror Animation
Based on	Hotel Transylvania by Todd Durham Sony Pictures Animation
Developed by	Mark Steinberg
Directed by	Robin Budd
Voices of	Bryn McAuley Evany Rosen Gage Munroe Joseph Motiki Dan Chameroy David Berni
Theme music composer	Stephen Skratt Asher Lenz
Composer(s)	Stephen Skratt Asher Lenz
Country of origin	Canada United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	40 (74 segments) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Rick Mischel Scott Dyer Irene Weibel
Producer(s)	Jane Crawford
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	Sony Pictures Animation Corus Entertainment Nelvana
Distributor	Sony Pictures Television (United States) Nelvana International (International)
Release
Original network	Disney Channel/Disney XD (U.S.) Teletoon (Canada)
Picture format	HDTV 1080i
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	June 25, 2017 (2017-06-25) – present

Hotel Transylvania: The Series is a Canadian-American animated comedy television series produced by Sony Pictures Animation and Nelvana in association with Corus Entertainment. It is based on and serves as a prequel to the film Hotel Transylvania (2012), taking place four years before the events of the first film, focusing on the activities of Mavis and her friends at the Hotel Transylvania.

The 26-episode first season premiered on June 25, 2017, on Disney Channel in the United States, with the first episode released earlier on June 20, 2017, on the WATCH Disney Channel app, YouTube, and VOD. The last eight episodes of the first season were first streamed onto Netflix in the United States on June 25, 2018, prior to their television air dates. In Canada, the series premiered October 2, 2017, on Teletoon.

On September 12, 2018, a second season was announced. Season 2 premiered on October 8, 2019.

Premise

The series takes place four years before the first film and follows Mavis and her friends as they have fun adventures at the hotel.

Characters

Main article: List of Hotel Transylvania characters

Main

• Mavis Dracula (voiced by Bryn McAuley) is Dracula's daughter who wants to have fun with her friends.
• Wendy Blob (voiced by Evany Rosen) is a blob that is the daughter of Mr. Blob and is one of Mavis' friends.
• Hank N. Stein (voiced by Gage Munroe) is the son of Frank and Eunice and is one of Mavis' friends.
• Pedro (voiced by Joseph Motiki) is a fat mummy who resembles Murray and is one of Mavis' friends. Pedro enjoys eating, sleeping, and rapping. His hero is The Sandman.
• Aunt Lydia (voiced by Dan Chameroy) is Dracula's and Gene's older sister and Mavis' aunt, who pushes more order and tradition at the hotel when Mavis and her friends want to have fun. Aunt Lydia is strict.
• Diana is Aunt Lydia's pet chicken who used to be a human.
• "Drac" Dracula (voiced by David Berni) is Mavis' widowed overprotective father and is away on "official vampire business" at the Vampire Council. He is replaced by his elder sister Lydia as the head staff of the hotel.

Supporting

• Frank (voiced by Paul Braunstein) is the father of Hank N. Stein.
• Eunice is the mother of Hank N. Stein.
• Quasimodo (voiced by Scott McCord) is Hotel Tranyslvania's residential chef.
• Uncle Gene (voiced by Patrick McKenna) is Mavis' uncle and Dracula's and Lydia's younger brother, who enjoys playing video games.
• Dr. John Gillman is a gill-man who is Hotel Transylvania's residential physician.
• Donald and Kitty Cartwright are a couple of humans who live with their toddler daughter near Hotel Transylvania. Donald is the fun and dim-witted father and Kitty is the overprotective mother who does anything to keep monsters away from her house, including installing the house with a high tech security system.
• Cerberus is a three-headed guard dog that mostly resides in Hotel Transylvania's Cerberus Pit.
• Klaus (voiced by Carter Hayden) is Mavis' cousin who is always out to beat her. His name is pronounced "Klow-shh."

Production

Hotel Transylvania: The Series' voice cast is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with the Dayton/Walters casting agency being responsible for the casting. None of the original cast returned for the show.

Episodes

Main article: List of Hotel Transylvania: The Series episodes

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
	1	26	June 25, 2017 (2017-06-25)	October 25, 2018 (2018-10-25)
	2	26	October 8, 2019 (2019-10-08)	October 29, 2020 (2020-10-29)

Broadcast

Sony Pictures Animation licensed Hotel Transylvania: The Series for platforms in Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe (excluding Germany), Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States. Sony Pictures Television is the distributor in the United States, while Nelvana Enterprises, successor of Nelvana International, is the distributor of the Hotel Transylvania: The Series internationally. The series debuted on Teletoon in Fall 2017 in Canada. In India, the series premiered on December 18, 2017, on Disney Channel India. The series was shown in Germany by Super RTL in 2018 and also on CITV in the UK the same year. Repeats of the series started airing on Disney XD in the US as of October 2019. The last eight episodes of the first season were shown on Netflix in the United States on June 25, 2018, a year after the show premiered.

External links

• Official website at Corus Entertainment
• Official website at Sony Pictures Animation
• Hotel Transylvania: The Series at IMDb