Warner Bros. Discovery South Asia has launched a new original intellectual property on kids’ channel POGO, with a factual entertainment senior executive announcing the debut of animated series ‘Sampat Champat’, inspired by the popular LotPot comic strip.

The show, which premiered yesterday, reimagines the long-running property as a “madcap universe” centred on “two bumbling thieves in a town where nothing is what it seems”.

Sai Abishek P R, Head of Factual Entertainment, Lifestyle & Kids at Warner Bros. Discovery South Asia, shared details of the launch in a LinkedIn post yesterday. Describing the tone of the series, he said the show is “driven by themes of brotherhood, friendship, slapstick humour” and some classic “evergreen nonsense logic”.

The executive also highlighted the scale of work behind the production, noting that “several hundred people have been working tirelessly to bring this show to life in its newly minted avatar in record time.” He thanked producers Aman Bajaj and Shivank Arora, along with Dheeraj Berry and the team at Cosmos Maya, while also crediting Kumar Vivek for leading the writing team.

At Warner Bros. Discovery, Jyoti Vikram was credited with “reimagining this world from scratch”, while executive producer Avinash Walzade handled production execution. Abishek also acknowledged Rajesh Yadgiri, Roohnaz Khan, Divya Chaturvedi and Nitesh Shrivastava for helping bring the project together, alongside WBD India country head Arjun Nohwar.

Ending the post on an optimistic note, he wrote, “Hope the kids like what they see!”, while also sharing the title track of ‘Sampat Champat’, which he said he had been “humming all week.”