Since selecting up the rights to it for Apple TV+ practically 5 years in the past, Apple has revitalized the Peanuts franchise. From its begin with STEM content material like Snoopy in House to extra character-focused vacation specials, Apple has breathed new life into Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the remainder of the gang.
Now, it’s taking one other massive step with the primary Peanuts musical in 35 years. Right now, the corporate introduced Snoopy Presents: A Summer season Musical, which is able to premiere globally on Apple TV+ on July 18, 2025.
The custom of Peanutsmusicals started in 1967 with the venerable You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, a stay stage musical that was later tailored right into a TV particular in 1985. This was adopted by 1975’s Snoopy: The Musical, which was equally tailored for TV in 1988.
Snoopy Presents: A Summer season Musical, reasonably appropriately lands on the seventy fifth anniversary of Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and the Peanuts gang, will comply with in that custom. Nonetheless, this one can be coming on to an animated characteristic reasonably than being offered as stay theatre (for now, not less than). Apple’s new 40-minute musical will characteristic an unique rating by Emmy Award-nominated composer Jeff Morrow and Emmy Award-nominated singer, songwriter, composer, and New York Instances bestselling creator Ben Folds.
The brand new particular follows Charlie Brown as he spends one other yr at his beloved summer season camp, joined by his little sister, Sally, who’s there for the primary time. In the meantime, Snoopy and Woodstock discover a map that sends them off in pursuit of hidden treasure.
When the Peanuts gang discovers that the camp is shutting down on account of an absence of curiosity, they combat to reserve it by internet hosting a live performance.
Following over a decade of silence from Charlie Brown and Snoopy, damaged solely by 2015’s The Peanuts Film, Apple signed a STEM-focused deal to provide Snoopy in House as one of many first animated exhibits to launch with its new Apple TV+ service in 2019. It expanded that deal in 2020 to make Apple TV+ the house for “all issues Peanuts” — and it’s taken its new stewardship of the franchise very critically.
Apple kicked issues off in 2021 with the primary Charlie Brown vacation particular produced in over twenty years, however it did so with a twist. In a extra character-driven story, Auld Lang Syne centered on Lucy’s struggles to host the proper New 12 months’s Eve get together. That heartwarming look into the beloved characters continued with Earth Day’s It’s the Small Issues, Charlie Brown that includes Charlie Brown’s sister, Sally.
The development continued with To Mother (And Dad) With Love, that includes Peppermint Patty, and One in all a Form Marcie, revealing the trials and tribulations of the gang’s most considerate and caring introvert.
These deeper dives into what have been basically supporting solid members took on one other side with Welcome Dwelling, Franklin, which featured an origin story for the history-making first African-American to be featured within the Peanuts sketch — a comparatively daring transfer made by Charles M. Schulz, who launched the Black character in the course of the civil rights motion of 1968 and refused to again down when met with opposition by newspapers who threatened to drop his sketch over it.
Apple can be engaged on a feature-length movie that may see the Peanuts gang take an epic journey to the Large Metropolis, marking the second time the gang has come to the massive display screen and the primary main Charlie Brown challenge since Apple took the reigns (sadly, The Peanuts Film is the one entry that may’t be discovered on Apple TV+, on account of rights points, though it may be bought from iTunes).
Apple’s unique Peanuts content material on Apple TV+ has earned 27 award nominations and 4 wins because it first debuted in 2020. Whereas the unique characteristic movie nonetheless isn’t a part of the gathering, Apple has practically each different historic Peanuts particular obtainable within the Apple TV+ catalog, together with the enduring specials, A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and It’s the Nice Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.