CrossMore Presents: Royal Painmakers

***CrossMore Presents: Royal Painmakers*** is a computer-animated science fantasy television series developed by Aaron Montalvo, Mairghread Scott, and Jane Espenson.

It is the second in one of the planned CrossMore Universe spin-offs that started with CrossMore: The Series, with Espenson and Montalvo as executive producers alongside Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, and Stephen Sandoval. Craig Gerber, who created Sofia the First and Elena of Avalor, is set to be the series' executive consultant, and the series will be animated by Blur Studio and Orange and produced by Hollowfox Television Animation, 20th Television Animation, and ABC Signature.

The series, airing on Montalvo One, premiered in January 29, 2022, is rated TV-14.

## Production

With the possible spin-offs in mind and after the release of the first telefilm based on the show, it has been confirmed that a spin-off centered on Elena and Sofia from the Ever Realm kingdoms is in development. Like its other spin-off, Montalvo, Kitsis, Horowitz, and Stephen Sandoval are the executive producers with Craig Gerber (creator of both Sofia the First and Elena of Avalor) as an executive consultant.

Jane Espenson and Mairghread Scott are set to be the series' showrunners and co-developers alongside Montalvo with Espenson being an executive producer and Mairghread Scott as a supervising producer.

The series will be animated by American studio Blur Studio, and Japanese CG studio Orange, as the first CG-animated CrossMore series. The animation is set to be "inspired" by Land of the Lustrous and the Love, Death + Robots episode, "Suits", with the original character designer Ritsuko Notani returning as a character designer supervisor. Tim Miller, who directed Deadpool and Terminator: Dark Fate and co-founded Blur Studio, will be the series' co-executive producer. Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas are confirmed to be consulting producers.

As Disney relaunched 20th Television Animation as an adult-oriented unit and complement to Disney TVA, The series will move to 20th Television Animation , However, the cast and crew will remain as DTVA will collaborate with 20th.

### Premise

In the CrossMore-verse version of the Ever Realm, a modern country/kingdom, there are two collaborative states that are protected by two icons of royalty, Elena and Sofia. Now, as young adults, they will try to balance royalty, life, and a whole lot of heroism as protectors of the Ever Realm, even if someday, they might get too old for it.

## Episodes

*Main article: CrossMore Presents: Royal Painmakers/Episodes*
The series is set to have 16 episodes set to air on Montalvo One and syndicated with Freeform and FXX. The series will be aired as part of the Montalvo One programming block New Old Kids on the Block, making the second Montalvo Original series next to Embracer's Club to be aired in the block. Later, after the series is renewed for a second season, not only it is expanded into a 26-episode season, but also it will air on both Montalvo One and the newly-rebranded Montalvo Trio (a rebrand of Montalvo Allspark now as a joint venture between Disney, Hasbro and Montalvo Television Networks) as part of the new Chromix block, Chromix DualVerse, now moving into saturday nights.

Outside of the United States, it will air on Montalvo Chromix in Canada and on Montalvo Xtreme in Latin America with streaming rights being on MontalVue, Star+ and Netflix in Latin America and MontalVue, Disney+ (through Star) and Netflix in Canada. In Europe, United Kingdom, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, The series will be exclusively streaming on Disney+ through Star as a Star Original Series. In Japan, it will also stream on Disney+ through Star simultaneously with airing on TV Tokyo and its affiliates as well as AT-X and FOX.

## Music

* Music by: Nicholas Brittell (Season 1), Daniel Rojas, Amie Doherty (Season 2+)
* Theme Song Composed by: Nicholas Britell
* Japanese Music Production: Avex Pictures, TV Tokyo Music

### Japanese Songs

* Season 1
	+ Opening Theme: Unmei no Shizuku ~Destiny's Star~ by GIRL NEXT DOOR (From Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial)
	+ Ending Theme:
* Season 2
	+ Opening Theme 1: Trust x Last by Koda Kumi x Shonan no Kaze (From Kamen Rider Geats)
* Season 3