To help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, Apple has launched the official trailer for “Snoopy in Space,” a new new Peanuts series that will debut on Apple TV this fall.
The official Peanuts YouTube channel has released a trailer for “Snoopy in Space.” The trailer’s tagline reads “It’s been 50 years since the first man walked on the moon, now it’s a dog’s turn.”
This is the second Peanuts-themed bit of content released as an Apple Original. The first was a “documentary of sorts” entitled “Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10” which debuted in the Apple TV app in May.
“Snoopy in Space” follows Snoopy, Woodstock, Charlie Brown, and the rest of the Peanuts gang in a brand new Peanuts production, directed by DHX Media. The deal between Apple and DHX Media was announced in December. DHX Media will develop and produce original programming based on the Charles M. Schulz characters.
Deadline reports the logline for the series is as follows: “Snoopy in Space follows Snoopy as his dreams of being an astronaut become a reality when he and Woodstock tag along with the Peanuts gang on a field trip to NASA and are chosen for an elite mission into space. As Snoopy and Woodstock fulfill their dreams of astronaut training and space travel, Charlie Brown and the gang assist their friends from mission control.”
The new Apple content isn’t the first time Peanuts has been associated with the U.S. space program. For the real-life Apollo 10 lunar mission, NASA and the mission’s crew dubbed the lunar module “Snoopy” and the command module was christened as “Charlie Brown.” NASA had contacted Peanuts creator Charles Schultz to convince him to incorporate his popular characters into NASA missions.