‘Camp Snoopy’ Comes to Apple TV+ on June 14
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While things have been relatively quiet on the Peanuts front lately, Apple has been working behind the scenes to bring Snoopy and the gang back for more animated features this year. Now, it looks like the first of these is set to debut just after the company wraps its annual Worldwide Developers Conference next month.
Apple’s latest kids series, Camp Snoopy, was mentioned last May as the company laid out its 2023–24 lineup of kids shows, but at the time, it only said it would be coming sometime in 2024. However, with the third season of The Snoopy Show debuting last June 9, it’s probably not surprising that Apple is following a similar timeline with its latest Snoopy series.
According to a news release this week, Camp Snoopy will premier on Friday, June 14. Apple hasn’t said how many episodes we can expect, but if The Snoopy Show is any indication, we’re probably looking at around 13.
Alongside the premiere date announcement, Apple has also shared a trailer giving us an idea of what to expect from the new series, which will focus on the adventures of Snoopy and the Beagle Scouts in the Great Outdoors while Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts characters enjoy a summer at Camp Spring Lake.
Camp Snoopy marks the third Apple original animated series based on the Peanuts comic strip. It was actually Charles M. Schulz’s famous beagle that kicked off Apple’s first foray into original television programming, with Charlie Brown and Snoopy starring in the first original series Apple ever released.
In a partnership with Canadian Peanuts rights-holder DHX Media (now WildBrain) and NASA, Apple premiered Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10 six months before Apple TV+ opened to the public.
That nine-minute animated short led to Snoopy in Space, and by the following year, Apple had expanded its STEM arrangement into a full-fledged deal to make Apple TV+ the home for “all things Peanuts.”
From this partnership came a regular series, The Snoopy Show, and the first new Charlie Brown Holiday Special in over 20 years, a heartwarming celebration of New Year’s that gave us a closer look at Lucy. Apple continued that trend of highlighting specific characters with It’s the Small Things, Charlie Brown, an Earth Day special featuring Charlie Brown’s sister, Sally, To Mom (And Dad) With Love which focused on Peppermint Patty, and last year’s One of a Kind Marcie which shed new light on Charles M. Schulz’s lovable introvert.
In February, Welcome Home, Franklin put the spotlight on one of the most significant background characters in animation history, providing an origin story for Franklin, one of the first African-American characters to grace the pages of a mainstream comic strip when this was considerably more controversial.
Schulz didn’t just draw Franklin into the background but wrote him in as a fully accepted member of the Peanuts gang who shared the same benches and beaches with the white kids, raising the ire of newspaper editors and members of the public at a time when segregation was still the norm in many parts of the United States. However, Schulz brooked no opposition and stuck to his guns, telling newspaper editors, “Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit.”
While waiting for Camp Snoopy to debut on June 14, Peanuts fans can enjoy a sizeable back-catalog of shows and specials featuring Charlie Brown and the gang, including not only Apple’s recent originals but also many of the classic TV specials from years gone by.
Apple is also working on a new full-length feature film that will bring Charlie Brown to the big screen for the first time since 2015’s The Peanuts Movie. A release date for that one hasn’t been announced, although it’s supposed to begin production sometime this year if it hasn’t already.
