Carmen Sandiego (TV series)

Carmen Sandiego
Promotional material for the upcoming series
Genre	Animated Educational Mystery
Based on	Carmen Sandiego
Voices of	Gina Rodriguez Finn Wolfhard
Production company(s)	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt DHX Media
Release
Original network	Netflix
Original release	2019
Chronology
Related shows	Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?

Carmen Sandiego is an upcoming Netflix animated educational series that is based on the media franchise of the same name. It was created through a partnership between Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and DHX Media, and will contain a "serialized look at Carmen’s backstory that is told from her perspective". Serving as an origin story for Broderbund's fictional thieving villain, it will be the fourth Carmen Sandiego television show after the PBS game shows World and Time, and the FOX animated series Earth.

On April 14, 2017, Hollywood insider information site The Tracking Board reported that they had exclusively learnt of an animated Carmen Sandiego project at Netflix, that Gina Rodriguez as the voice of the titular character. The site reported that the 20-episode series would aim to be "as educational as it is entertaining", in keeping with the style of the franchise. It was later confirmed that the series will be called Carmen Sandiego. Rodriguez confirmed the story via her Twitter feed the following day in response to a Hypable story, which compared the news to that of a Kate McKinnon-led revival of The Magic School Bus.Carmen Sandiego was set to appeal to a wider audience (ages 6–11), plus the parents of those kids and fans of the original series. On April 18 and 19, the news began to be published by reputable news sites, where it was confirmed that Netflix had rebooted the franchise on TV by ordering twenty 22-minute episodes of Carmen Sandiego, which is set to premiere in 2019 and with Gina Rodriguez in the starring role. Rotoscopers noted that this was "more than most Netflix Originals receive". The Hollywood Reporter noted that Rita Moreno, who voiced Carmen in the FOX animated series Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?, recently guest-starred on Rodriguez's show Jane the Virgin. The new series was described as having "thrilling adventure and intrigue", while offering an "intimate look into Carmen's past" and what inspired her career choices, essentially answering the question "Who in the world [is] Carmen Sandiego?" while simultaneously following her on her thieving escapades.