50th Neighborhood

50th Neighborhood is an American animated series created by William R. Mayers for Nintendo TV, and released in April 2022. The series is about a 13-year-old boy named Jeff Pingles, who moves to a small neighborhood in New Mexico called  50th Neighborhood  where he will join a boy band, while learning to adapt to his new surroundings.

Plot
Jeff Pingles, a 13-year-old boy, moves to a small neighborhood in New Mexico, there he meets 4 boys who form a gang, Mike Geller, Dianne Miller, Tommy Marsh and Jennette Pilgrim, with whom he will join to be part of the gang. gang, and he will also have to adapt to his new life in the  50th Neighborhood 

Development
William R. Mayers, who created the animated series Bertram in 1992, started the idea in mid-2016, when he was in a coffee shop in Los Angeles with his wife, he began to draw some figures of a gang of children on a napkin, so that from that drawing he would start developing a series for the company where he worked for years, Nintendo Studios, so he started talking to the executives, waiting for a response, not receiving a response for a year, he thought that Nintendo Studios had canned the series, and express It's not cancelled, just canned, for now, I just hope they accept my project, because I have several ideas for it, and everything would go to hell if they rejected me. Mayers did not receive answers until 2019, when he was informed that they would start production for Nintendo TV, so the production stage of the series began there.

Production
Production start was delayed until February 2021, and took place at the headquarters of Nintendo Television Productions, Inc. at the Nintendo Studios' Lot in Burbank, California, with Mayers directing production, was also produced in conjunction with Harpar Television Animation, Fox Entertainment, 20th Television Animation. Mayers uploaded a small clip to Twitter in October 2021, where the team of the series was seen, where Mayers spoke with them and to tell them about his experiences, and they had some problem during production. In December 2021, the series was renewed for a second and third season, the second season began production in January 2022 and ended production in March 2022, and the third began production in June 2022 and ended production in August 2022.

Animation
The animation was produced by Nintendo Animation Studios in Glendale, which was directed by John Griffin and animated by a total of 17 people. The designs and shapes are very similar to those that Nintendo Studios traditionally uses in humans, but always with different physical features, depending on the show's creator preference, the backgrounds were made in cel-shading, the sky has many more clouds, and the sun it now seems to glow more like it does in the real world (something that has been implemented in the other series), and also like many Nintendo Studios series, it uses a bright and colorful color palette. And like all animated series from Nintendo Studios, the 2D characters are animated by rigging, something that has been done since 1988.

Broadcast
The series airs on Nintendo TV, with new episodes airing in the Nintendo Premiere segment. Internationally it is broadcast on other versions of Nintendo TV, although it has also been broadcast on other channels, such as in the United Kingdom, due to the closure of Nintendo TV in that country, the series premiered on Comedy Central UK, in Japan the series was premiere on TV Tokyo, Also for the same reason as in the UK, while in Poland the series premiered on Fox

Reception
During its premiere, the series had a total of 3 million viewers, being one of the most watched programs during its premiere, The series had a positive reception, in IMDb the series had a rating of 7.6, with positive reviews

Home Media
The first season was included on the HBO Max service in September 2022.