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Oggy Oggy

Oggy Oggy is a French CGI-animated preschool television series, a spin-off of the slapstick franchise Oggy and the Cockroaches, in which a young Oggy lives free of the cockroaches in a colorful world inhabited by a community of cats. It was produced by Paris-based Xilam Animation and announced on 4 November 2019 as Netflix's first French animated original series.¹ The show debuted globally on Netflix on 24 August 2021 and ran until 2023.²^•³

Key fact	Detail
Format	156 episodes of 7 minutes in two consecutive seasons, plus 30 shorts⁴^•⁵
Premiere	Global Netflix launch on 24 August 2021, with 43 initial episodes and new episodes every 4 months until the end of 2022²^•⁶
Budget and crew	Global budget of 22 million USD; a team of 150 people over two years⁴
Dialogue	None; the cats communicate through meows, sighs, and gestures⁷
Rating	TV-Y; Common Sense Media rates it suitable for age 3+, with violence, language, and sexual content all listed as not present⁸
End of run	Concluded on 16 October 2023 after its third season on Netflix³

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Premise and format

The series follows Oggy as a kitten, an eager and enthusiastic young cat in a world of colorful feline neighbors. Sensitive and compassionate, he is quick to help everyone he meets, whether a fearful pirate, a lonely astronaut, or a farmer who has lost her sheep; his clumsiness causes mishaps, but his resourcefulness lets him succeed in unexpected ways.⁴^•⁹ Each episode contains three distinct adventure stories, in which Oggy and his friends solve daily problems with creativity, teamwork, and tools from their surroundings.⁸

Like the parent franchise, the show is non-dialogue. Characters communicate through meows and gestures, and reviewers noted that small-scale lessons about kindness and creative problem-solving are conveyed without spoken words.⁷^•¹⁰ Common Sense Media describes the series as goofy fun rather than educational, highlighting friendship, teamwork, adventure, and creativity, and notes that it lacks clear social-emotional learning concepts and diverse representations.⁸

Production

Xilam Animation greenlit the series in April 2019 as its first fully CGI production, ordering two straight consecutive seasons of 156 seven-minute episodes at a global budget of 22 million USD, with about 150 people working on it over two years.⁴ The French-language announcement put the budget at more than 20 million euros.¹¹ It was created by Xilam's Jean Cayrol and Cédric Guarneri, directed by Frédéric Martin, and executive produced by Xilam founder and CEO Marc du Pontavice; it was the first full CGI production from Xilam's dedicated CGI studio in Angoulême, France.² Executive production of the first two seasons was entrusted to Les Films du Gorak under a contract signed on 25 September 2019, with the series mainly financed by Netflix under a contract signed on 6 September 2019.¹²

Netflix framed the commission as part of its preschool slate for ages 2 to 6, joining series such as Ask the StoryBots, Chip and Potato, and True and the Rainbow Kingdom. Xilam retained second-window global linear television distribution and worldwide merchandising rights.¹ The series was pre-sold to France Télévisions, Super RTL in Germany, and Discovery in Italy.¹³

Release and audience

The first season debuted globally on Netflix on 24 August 2021 with 43 initial episodes, followed by new episodes every four months until the end of 2022; a YouTube channel with short formats launched in January 2022, and free-to-air launches on Super RTL, France Télévisions, and Discovery Italy followed from September 2022.⁶ Season 2 reached France 5's Okoo block from 15 April 2023 and Netflix from 17 April 2023.¹⁴ Netflix's own publicity listed a third season for 2023,¹⁵ and the series concluded on 16 October 2023.³

Viewing figures from Netflix's "What We Watched" engagement report for the first half of 2023, cited by Xilam, put the first two seasons of Oggy Oggy at 14.4 million hours viewed, which Xilam described as strong family co-viewing performance.¹⁶ On JustWatch's aggregated audience rating the show scores 5.8 out of 10.¹⁷

Merchandising

Xilam built a licensing program from the start, assembling a consumer-products plan across toys, apparel, and homewares.⁴ In 2022 the company signed Simba Dickie Group as global master toy partner; the toy range, launching in fall/winter 2022 for children aged 3 to 6, includes plush, figures, playsets, vehicles, collectibles, and sand buckets, initially in France, Italy, Germany, and the U.K., expanding to Poland and Spain in spring 2023.¹⁸ In the U.K., Xilam appointed the London agency Licensing Matters Global as lead agent in November 2022, covering publishing, soft play, live events, fashion, gift and novelties, homeware, FMCG, promotions, and health and beauty; the series also began airing daily on Channel 5's Milkshake! block.¹⁹

Place in the Oggy franchise

Oggy Oggy is one of three properties in the Oggy franchise, alongside the classic Oggy and the Cockroaches (500 episodes at the time of Xilam's 2020 report) and the Oggy Next Gen reboot (78 episodes).¹³ The spin-off removes the franchise's central antagonists: in the original series, three cockroaches named Joey, Dee Dee, and Marky torment the cat Oggy, while in Oggy Oggy the character is "freed from the ceaseless tyranny of the cockroaches" and lives among cats.¹ Xilam positioned the preschool series to extend the brand to a younger audience of four- to six-year-olds and to demonstrate the studio's CGI capability, part of a plan to produce at least half of its future slate in CGI.⁹

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Scripted television and comedy series › Animated television series (individual series) › Children's animated adventure and fantasy series › Preschool and educational series › Premiered 2019 to 2025

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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