Hotel Transylvania: The Series
Hotel Transylvania: The Series is an 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 in 2008, four years before the events of the first film, focusing on the activities of 114/115-year-old Mavis and her best friends at the Hotel Transylvania while Dracula is away at the Vampire Council. 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. The second and final season premiered on October 8, 2019 and ran through October 29, 2020. The series has currently not been released on DVD or any home media format. Premise. The series takes place in 2008, four years  before the original CGI film and follows Mavis and her best friends as they have fun adventures at the hotel while Dracula is away on business with the Vampire Council. 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. 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 United States 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.