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Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are leaning into nostalgia next as the Canadian creative duo reimagine Cancon classic The Littlest Hobo for new audiences.
Revealed Thursday as part of Bell Media’s coming screen projects, The Littlest Hobo revamp is set to be an hour-long, live-action scripted drama, with 10 episodes to start.
The show is slated to be a revival of the beloved Canadian series, which followed an intrepid, brilliant and ownerless German shepherd — a heroic canine that wanders through towns, helping people in need at every stop. The show is set to the jangling optimistic theme track Maybe Tomorrow, sung and co-written by Canadian Terry Bush.
Rogen and Goldberg called The Littlest Hobo, which ran on CTV from 1979 through 1985, “a foundational show of our childhood,” and expressed excitement at reimagining it for a new generation.
“Though the hobo may be little, we promise big things to come,” the two said in a statement. “That doesn’t mean the dog will be huge like Clifford. The hobo will still be little. But the adventures will be BIG.”
Production details, casting and when the forthcoming show is slated to debut will be announced at a later date.
The 1980s-era Littlest Hobo followed an American TV series broadcast in the 1960s, with that earlier series inspired by a 1958 film.
The revival is a Canadian offering from the current partnership between Rogen’s and Goldberg’s Point Grey Pictures and Lionsgate. It comes on the heels of their Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning comedy series The Studio, a star-studded send-up of movie studio executive life.
Actor-filmmaker Rogen and childhood friend Goldberg, a screenwriter and producer, were born in Vancouver. They’re the team behind a list of successful TV and movie projects, including Superbad, Pineapple Express, The Boys and a revival of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
“Canada is the greatest country on Earth and deserves the greatest content on Earth,” Rogen and his Point Grey partners said in December 2024, when their alliance with Bell Media and Lionsgate Canada was first announced
They added they aim for “creatively exciting and financially lucrative work that flows forth from our alliance like syrup from a well-tapped maple tree.”
