Apple TV+ released a trailer for the animated series Interrupting Chicken, based on the 2011 Caldecott Honor-winning book written and illustrated by David Ezra Stein. Premiering November 18, the animated preschool series "introduces children to the joy of creative writing--starting with a young little chicken named Piper who has a habit of interrupting storytime! Every time Piper hears a story, she can't help but jump in, ask questions and let her imagination run wild," Apple noted.
Interrupting Chicken's voice cast includes Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul) as Papa; Juliet Donenfeld (Pete the Cat) as Piper; Sarah Elizabeth Thompson as "CJ"; Maximus Riegel (Klaus) as Benjamin; Luke Lowe (Big City Greens) as Duckston; Jakari Fraser (Spidey and his Amazing Friends) as Theodore and more.
The project was developed by Emmy Award winner Ron Holsey, who serves as executive producer. In partnership with Mercury Filmworks, the series is also exec produced by Stein, Loris Kramer Lunsford, Clint Eland and Chantal Ling. Dr. Lucy Calkins, founding director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project and the Richard Robinson Professor of Children's Literature at Teachers College, Columbia University, serves as reading and writing expert through the Apple TV+ changemaker initiative.