PAW Patrol (2013): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• Scott Kraft, the show's first writer, and Jamie Whitney, the show's first director, decided to abandon the rescued dog theme in 2012.
• The pups' designs underwent major changes after Chapman's pitch; they were very realistic at first, with unique fur and textures based on their breeds, but they were later simplified and made more cartoonish.
• In early February 2023, series creator Keith Chapman said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter magazine that the series could still be on television for another ten years or more.
• In a 2016 interview with Maclean's Magazine, Guru president Frank Falcone stated that his studio's animators were originally suspicious of the show's "toyetic" concept.
• Later the same year, the company requested some proposals for a television show based on the transforming toy, and accepted one from Bob the Builder creator Keith Chapman.
• A research study, commissioned by Sky in March 2016, reported that 16 percent of surveyed British and Irish children named Paw Patrol as their favorite program.
• Criticism had been directed toward the show's unequal gender representation because initially the team of dogs was primarily male and included only one female character.
• On April 6, 2019, TV Tokyo premiered a Japanese dub of the show, starring Megumi Han as Ryder, who is renamed "Kento" (ケント).
• During his opening monologue for the 90th Academy Awards, host Jimmy Kimmel joked that Timothée Chalamet was missing Paw Patrol to attend the ceremony, but "Ryder and his team of pups saved the day, so".

Source: Wikipedia

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