Disney+ is hard at work on their Phineas and Ferb revival series and the creative team has teased that the new series will act as a fifth season to the original Disney Channel show.
During Disney Television Animation’s presentation at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, as reported by Laughing Place, Dan Povenmire and Jeff Marsh, the co-creators of Phineas and Ferb, shared some insights into their new 40-episode series. They revealed that the new series will be set one year after the original show and will kick off a new summer with a special musical sequence. The creators consider this new series to be a continuation, essentially making it a “Season 5” of the original.
The original series four seasons between 2007 and 2015. The series follows stepbrothers Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher during summer vacation. Every day, the boys undertake the construction of a grand project or embark on a spectacular adventure, to make the most of their time on vacation. This annoys their controlling older sister, Candace, who frequently tries to expose their schemes to her and Phineas’s mother. The series follows a standard plot system; running gags occur in every episode.
A sixth season is also in the works for the streamer, per the creative team.
Povenmire and Marsh conceived the characters while working together on animated programs The Simpsons and Rocko’s Modern Life in the 1990s, and were inspired by the summers of their own childhoods. They developed the series together and pitched it to networks for 16 years before successfully selling it to The Walt Disney Company.
Phineas and Ferb is one of Disney Channel’s most successful animated franchises. The series won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2010 for Outstanding Writing in Animation and won several Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation.
