Cartoon
Open Season: Call of Nature
The story
Open Season: Call of Nature is an animated children's comedy television series, based on the Open Season CGI film franchise. The series follows Boog the grizzly bear and Elliot the deer as they create a new place for animals to live and embrace their inner wild. It was produced by 9 Story Media Group and Brown Bag Films in Toronto with Sony Pictures Animation. The series premiered on Family Channel on November 3, 2023.
It has also been broadcast on Discovery Kids in Latin America, ABC Entertains in Australia, Disney Channel in Germany and Nickelodeon in the United Kingdom. 26 episodes of the series were produced.
This is also the final series to involve Mark Thornton before his death in 2025.
Premise
When Boog and Elliot discover an abandoned Summer Camp in the middle of nowhere, they go on a new adventure of creating a place to live that welcomes many animals. Under the leadership of Boog and Elliot, the Campers must all work together to help create their own slice of paradise in the middle of the wilderness and rediscover their inner wild.
Main
Jonathan Langdon as Boog
Joshua Graham as Elliot
Supporting
Josette Jorge as Giselle
Ron Pardo as Ian
Jonathan Sconza as Mr. Weenie
Trevor White as McSquizzy
Sara Garcia as Karla, a striped skunk and the camp's psychiatrist
Annick Obonsawin as Kiki, a gibbon from a circus
Minor
Katie Griffin as Rosie
Cory Doran as Deni
Deven Mack as Norm, a vegetarian turkey vulture.
Ana Sani as Cleo
Carlo Essagian as Napoleon
Raoul Bhaneja as RJ
Sugar Lyn Beard as Sugar
Jonathan Sconza as Buddy
Deven Mack as Vulture
Chris Wilson as Cyril
Julie Lemieux as Sunny
John Cleland as Leslie
Martin Roach as Gunner
Broadcast
The series was announced on August 1, 2023. The series had its world premiere on Discovery Kids in Latin America on October 2, 2023, and it is made available on Discovery+ after the premiere. The series later premiered on Family Channel in Canada on November 3, 2023. Prior to that, a sneak peek of the series aired on October 30, 2023, after an airing of the most recent film in the Open Season franchise.
As a result of the series premiere of the show, the first three films: Open Season, Open Season 2 and Open Season 3 were aired between November 3 and 5, respectively. The French dub of the series premiered on Télémagino in Canada on February 4, 2024. The series was then followed by a German dub, which premiered on Disney Channel on February 5, 2024.
The series was broadcast on ABC Entertains (formerly ABC Me) in Australia, which premiered on February 1, 2024 and was made available on ABC iview. The series premiered on Minimax in Czechia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia in April 2024. The series made its debut in 2024 during the Okoo block on either France 3 or France 4 in France and on Cartoon Network in some parts of Europe and Asia. In the UK, the series premiered on Nickelodeon in July 2024.
In the United States, the series is currently available on YouTube. The series is available on HBO Max in Latin America since February 2024, with the first ten episodes and the second segment of the eleventh episode.
Most episodes of the show are also available on The Roku Channel, Amazon Prime Video, and Tubi (before being removed; as of 2026). The series is set to premiere on Cartoon Network in Southeast Asia, and soon to be available on Disney+. It is available on Paramount+ in the UK.
On October 10, 2024, 9 Story Distribution announced several licensing deals for the series with DR TV (Denmark), RTS (Switzerland), AMC Networks (CEE), Canal Panda (Portugal), RTÉ (Ireland), Paramount Media Networks (UK, Italy), Tubi, Roku, and Xumo (all three US), e.tv (South Africa), and PCCW (Hong Kong and Macau). On February 17, 2025, the series was actually broadcast on Panda Kids in Portugal instead of Canal Panda.