Netflix Orders an Animated ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ Series Produced by Ellen DeGeneres

The classic 1960 Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham is headed to Netflix. Deadline reports that the streaming network has given a 13-episode order to an animated series based on the book written by Wreck-It-Ralph and The Lego Movie Sequel’s Jared Stern and co-executive produced by Ellen DeGeneres. Production on the series – which will reportedly be “the highest-end, most expensive animated program ever produced for television†– starts next month, and it’s not expected to premiere on Netflix until 2018. Watch DeGeneres announce news of the series on her daytime talk show below:

Netflix Orders an Animated ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ Series […]