Backyard Sports: The Animated Series

The series features further adventures of the Backyard Kids happening around their neighborhood.

• Tiffany Haddish as Kiesha Phillips, a jovial African American girl.
• Donald Faison as Dante Robinson, a short African American boy with a large afro and equally large appetite.
• Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Dmitri Petrovich, an intelligent and inventive Caucasian boy.
• Arturo Castro as Pablo Sanchez, a short, helpful, athletically skilled Hispanic boy who normally speaks Spanish.
• Utkarsh Ambudkar as Achmed Khan, a rock music loving Pakistani American boy.
• Deborah Baker Jr. as Kimmy Eckman, a candy-obsessed Caucasian girl.
• Michael Vlamis as Tony Delvecchio, a greaser-like Italian American boy.
• Ashleigh Crystal Hairston as Sunny Day, a cheerful African American girl who serves as play-by-play announcer of the Backyard Baseball League.
• Will Neff as Mr. Clanky, a robot built by Dmitri.
• Vincent Tong as Kenny Kawaguchi, a paraplegic Japanese American boy who plays sports in his wheelchair.
• Joey Rudman as Marky Dubois, a Cajun boy who has a pet frog and goes around barefooted. Marky previously made an unvoiced cameo in The Animated Special.
• Lindsay Barnett as Vinnie the Gooch, a snarky Caucasian boy who serves as color commentator of the Backyard Baseball League.
• TBA as Pete Wheeler, a fast but slow-witted Caucasian boy. Pete was previously voiced by Adam Pally in The Animated Special.
• TBA as Stephanie Morgan, a baseball enthusiast African American girl. Stephanie was previously voiced by Ego Nwodim in The Animated Special.
• TBA as Vicki Kawaguchi, a ballet-loving Japanese American girl and Kenny's sister. Vicki previously made an unvoiced cameo in The Animated Special.
• TBA as Angela Delvecchio, a clumsy yet spunky Italian American tomboy and Tony's sister. Angela previously made an unvoiced cameo in The Animated Special.

Haddish, Faison, Mintz-Plasse, Castro, Ambudkar, Baker, Vlamis, Hairston, and Barnett all reprise their roles from The Animated Special.^[1]

Backyard Sports: The Animated Special, a television special based on the Backyard Sports franchise, particularly the Backyard Baseball series, began development in April 2024,^[2] a month after Playground Productions CEO Lindsay Barnett gained the franchise's rights from film producers Stuart Avi Savitski and Ari Pinchot, who co-maintain film and television rights after the transfer. Irish animation studio Lighthouse Studios animated the special and co-produced it alongside Playground Productions. Production on the special completed in October 2025, and was released to YouTube in January 2026, thus providing the first major original production in the franchise since two mobile games released in 2015 and Playground Productions' reboot commenced in 2024. In November 2025, Barnett and Playground's chief product officer Chris Waters stated hopes that a scripted series would be made if the special is successful.^[3] The Animated Special would be followed by the release of a new Backyard Baseball game developed by Mega Cat Studios and published by Playground Productions on July 9, 2026; Lighthouse Studios animated the game's intro.

At San Diego Comic-Con on July 24, 2026, Playground Productions announced that the special would be followed up by a series titled Backyard Sports: The Animated Series.^[1][4][5] Lighthouse Studios will again provide animation, while several cast members from the special reprise their voice roles.^[1][4][5] Twenty episodes running for 11 minutes each will be produced.^[1][4][5] The announcement was accompanied by a sizzle reel teaser trailer featuring new footage and footage from The Animated Special, along with new images from the series.^[1][4][5] Waters will serve as the series' showrunner, as well as an executive producer alongside Barnett, Pinchot, and Savitsky.^[1][4][5] Juston Gordon-Montgomery will serve as the series' supervising director, while Adam Aseraf and Sarah Nevada Smith will be the head writers and also serve as co-executive producers.^[1][4][5] Ashleigh Crystal Hairston, the voice of Sunny Day in the special and the series, posted on Instagram that she would also be writing for the series.^[6] According to Bleeding Cool, the series is targeting a January 2027 release.^[7]