Disney Junior has started production for their new animated music-filled series Eureka! where the show will follow a talented young inventor in the fantastical prehistoric world of Rocky Falls.
Ruth Righi (Disney Channel’s Sydney to the Max) will star as the voice of the title character, Eureka, alongside Hamilton’s Renée Elise Goldsbetter and Free Guy’s Lil Rel Howery as her parents Roxy and Rollo, as well as Hamilton’s other alum Javier Muñoz as her teacher, Ohm.
Eureka! tells the story of a young girl inventor who is unlike any other. She’s way ahead of her time and is using her out-of-the-box thinking to design inventions and contraptions to help make the world a better place. Eureka also wants to help her prehistoric community become more modern. With the help of her parents, teacher, best friends, and her beloved pet mammoth Murphy, Eureka is learning to embrace her extraordinary self.
“Eureka is an inspiring young girl with a big imagination and even bigger heart,” Joe D’Ambrosia, senior vice president, Original Programming and general manager of Disney Junior shared. “Through her creative inventions and friendships, she brings her prehistoric town together and helps others learn to look at the world from different perspectives. We like to think of her as our very first Disney Imagineer.”
Christiana “Chee” McGuigan, a science educator who has worked at the California Science Center and Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County serves as the series’ science education consultant. Biomedical scientist and former senior policy advisor for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Dr. Knatokie Ford, advised on the original series development. Engineering experts from Disney’s Imagineering team advised on the early development of Eureka’s inventions.
Norton Virgien (Doc McStuffins) and children’s book author-illustrator Niamh Sharkey (Henry Hugglemonster) are the series’ creators and executive producers. Erica Rothschild (Sofia the First) also helped develop the series along with Virgien and Sharkey, and will serve as co-executive producer and story editor. Multitalented singer, songwriter, and producer Kari Kimmel (Spirit Riding Free) is the show’s songwriter and Frederik Wiedmann (All Hail King Julien) is the composer.
Eureka! is set to premiere later this year and we can’t wait to see what inventions Eureka ends up creating.
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