“The Chosen,” the hit television show about the life of Jesus and His disciples, is expanding its programming to new audiences. Now, the multi-season TV phenomenon is releasing an animated version of the series for children as the increasingly popular live-action version is also being translated into more than 50 languages.
“The Chosen Adventures” is a new animated series created by the same team.
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It “follows nine-year-old Abby and her best friend Joshua as they navigate life in the ancient city of Capernaum,” the series synopsis explains. “When the children encounter a wise craftsman and teacher, Jesus of Nazareth, he changes the way they see the world.”
Dallas Jenkins, creator, writer, and director of “The Chosen,” says he has envisioned this project since season one.
“When we were first devising Season 1, I remember specifically saying, ‘I’d love to do an episode where we are really spending time with Jesus and we are seeing him through the eyes of children,'” he said in a YouTube announcement last year.
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An episode entitled “Jesus Loves the Little Children” premiered during Season 1, but Jenkins and his team wanted to take it a step further.
“We did have this thought of, ‘Boy, it would be interesting to kind of dive deeper,'” Jenkins continued. “Like what happens to those kids after they’ve met Jesus.”
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Meanwhile, “The Chosen” is one step closer to translating the entire series into more than 600 languages.
Jenkins previously explained that the series has partnered with The Come and See Foundation, a nonprofit, to make it more globally accessible and free to people around the world.
“Fewer than 5% of global Chosen viewers pay to watch the show, and that’s because of the people around the world who donate to keep the show free and easy to watch and translated into as many languages as possible. This free global launch is why we do what we do,” said Jenkins.
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Now, “The Chosen” has officially been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most translated season for a streaming series in history. Season 5 is being dubbed into 50 languages, while Season 1 of the Bible series has already been dubbed into 58 languages and given closed captions in 86 languages.
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