AVOD platform Tubi has scooped up the rights to family sitcom Gordita Chronicles (10 x 25 minutes, pictured), which has been homeless since it was canceled and removed from WBD’s streaming service Max in 2022.

Produced by Sony Pictures Television, the show centers around a Dominican tween and her family, who move to Miami in the ’80s to pursue the American dream. Max originally greenlit Gordita in 2021 and premiered it the following year. But the series was canceled after just one season as part of the streamer’s strategic shift away from live-action content for kids. And in cost-cutting mode, WBD opted to pull the show off its platform altogether at the end of 2022, along with several other kids and family titles. 

Tubi (which operates in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala and Panama) now has exclusive AVOD rights to Gordita and will premiere the series on Friday, March 29. Last year, the platform acquired Aardman’s CG-animated series Lloyd of the Flies to launch as a Tubi Original in the North American market.

Claudia Forestieri (Good Trouble) created Gordita Chronicles, wrote the pilot and was an EP on the production with showrunner Brigitte Munoz-Liebowitz and Osprey Productions’ Josh Berman, Jennifer Robinson and Chris King. Hollywood actors Eva Longoria (who directed the pilot) and Zoe Saldana also served as EPs through their UnbeliEVAble Entertainment and Cinestar Pictures banners.