Tales from the SMP

Tales from the SMP is a Jonathian television program produced by JBC and licensed by the TCA, based on the television series Dream, itself based off the eponymous franchise created by Caddam Green. The series follows the adventures of minor character Karl Jacobs (played by Frederick Weaves), a time traveller who goes into the past and future, and documents the occurrences he observes. The series was first broadcast on JBC Three on January 31st, 2021, and has lasted two seasons.
The show is considered a form of side anthology series - a show comprised of "one-shot" style, nonlinear episodes, each with a different cast of characters - involving different members of the "Dream SMP", and on rare occasions, external guests. Each episode is considered canonical to the lore of the original show and explores past, present, and future stories from the Dream SMP through the eyes of time-traveling protagonist Karl Jacobs. In most episodes, the other actors involved in the original show play characters separate from their SMP characters.
Episodes are regularly aired on JBC Three on Monday nights at 9:00pm. Repeats are aired on the TCA Channel internationally.
== Cast ==
As well as Frederick Weaves, multiple other cast members from the original series have made appearances in Tales from the SMP. These include:
* Joshua Shirley
* Robert Bridges
* Oscar Williams
* Patrick Brown
* Connor Fenchurch
* Jayden Whitehall
* Michael van Hebaten
* Alex Kaybirch
* Joshua Fox
* Christopher Harvall
* Daniel May
* Laura Weber
* Boris Parker
* Isaiah Lonnington
* Kaleb Brown
* Chris Hill
* Sarah Cook
* Preston Buckner
* Patrick Green
* Simon Hedate
* Alan Parker
== Production ==
A spin-off series was first proposed in September of 2020 after a backstage conversation between Frederick Weaves and scriptwriter Thomas Sanders. The idea was glued into Sanders head, and around two days after the conversation wrote a script for the first episode of the series. Weaves and Sanders presented this script to Caddam Green, the creator of the original series. He immediately took it to the JBC, who were skeptical that if two shows about the same series were going to be filmed, the budget of one show would have to be cut to support the other. After much back and forth, the series was greenlit, and filming for the first series began on October 19th, 2020.
A second series was suggested immediately after the airing of the eighth and final episode of season one, but this was turned down by the JBC, who had redirected funding to programs like Life, People, and Top Gear in an attempt to keep their flagship shows afloat. Fan speculation that a second series was in the works led to Weaves, Sanders, and Green attempting to film the second season in secret, though JBC found out after the first episode was filmed. Facing immense pressure from Green, who threatened to pull out of production on the main series, a second season was greenlit, and filming resumed in July of 2021.
==See also==
*Dream (franchise)
*TCA
*JBC
*Frederick Weaves
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