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Here Is A Showmax Holiday Watchlist For Kids
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With the school holidays almost here, we know parents and guardians are already making a list of activities to keep the kiddos occupied and entertained — and save themselves.
In solidarity with the adult-folks, here’s a list of children-friendly shows streaming on Showmax the kids are sure to love watching – and re-watch!
With these titles in your queue, your kids are in good hands. Check them out:
- PAW PATROL S1-8 | All ages
Get ready for a whole new season of action-packed adventures with the paw-somest pups in Adventure Bay.
Join Ryder and the heroic pups – Chase, Marshall, Rubble, Skye, Rocky, Zuma, Everest and Tracker – as they jump in to save the day on the hit series from Nickelodeon.
This season’s missions include saving kittens in a runaway clown car, a missing mayoral moustache, a flying farmhouse, a Glow-in-the-Dark Party, baby dragons and… an Xtreme Shark!
- BLAZE & THE MONSTER MACHINES S1-6 | All ages
Join monster truck Blaze and his human friend AJ for another season of exciting challenges and adventures in Axle City.
Along with their friends – fearless Darington and his sidekick, Stunt Kitty, cowgirl truck Starla, racer Stripes, dino-truck Zeg, and their trusty mechanic, Gabby – they’ll engage preschoolers in fun challenges that help build skills from number sense and colour recognition to the basics of measurement, motion, friction, and simple machines.
- SUPERWORM | All ages
Superworm is super-long and super-strong, and always save the day. But who can save him when he gets too full of himself and is captured by the evil Wizard Lizard?
An animated adaptation of the bestselling picture-book of the same name by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, Superworm’s voice cast includes Oscar winner Olivia Colman (The Crown) as the narrator, Emmy nominee Matt Smith (House of the Dragon) as Superworm, and Ghanaian-British actor Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Paddington 2, Mary Poppins Returns) as the Wizard Lizard.
- KAMP KORAL: SPONGEBOB’S UNDER YEARS S1 | Ages 6+
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years takes us back in time to meet 10-year-old SpongeBob and his pals as they spend their summer building underwater campfires, catching wild jellyfish, and swimming in Lake Yuckymuck at the craziest camp in the kelp forest!
- THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2 | Ages 7+
Everyone’s favourite spooky family is back in The Addams Family 2, which finds Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and are totally consumed with “scream time.”
To reclaim their bond, they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester and the crew into their haunted camper for one last marvellously miserable family road trip.
Their adventure across America to see Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon and of course, Death Valley, takes them out of their element and into hilarious run-ins with their iconic cousin, It, as well as many new kooky characters. What could possibly go wrong?
- FIREHEART | Ages 7+
The animated family film Fireheart is set in 1930s New York, where girls can’t be firefighters. But 16-year-old Georgia Nolan dreams of changing that.
When Broadway is hit by a series of mysterious arson attacks and firemen start disappearing, Georgia’s former-firefighter dad, Shawn, is brought out of retirement to lead the investigation. Desperate to help her father and save her city, Georgia disguises herself as a young man called “Joe” and joins a group of misfit firefighters determined to save the day.
- RONJA, THE ROBBER’S DAUGHTER | Ages 7+
Narrated by two-time Emmy winner Gillian Anderson, Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter is an epic, Emmy-winning animated series from Studio Ghibli, based on the bestselling book by Astrid Lindgren.
Ronja is a 10-year-old girl born into a band of robbers. Over the course of 26 episodes, she befriends the son of her father’s rival and explores the beautiful but frightening forest, which is full of strange creatures.
- THE LOUD HOUSE | Ages 8+
The latest season of The Loud House brings even more fun with 11-year-old Lincoln Loud and his right-hand man Clyde, as they try to survive Lincoln’s 10 sisters and the craziness of life in the Loud house.
Nominated for a 2023 Annie Award, Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse sees Lex Luthor unite the world’s super-villains to capture all of Earth’s super heroes, until only the DC Super Hero Girls are left to stop the Legion of Doom.
Our heroes must cross dimensions to rescue their fellow super heroes from the Phantom Zone, but a fortuitous wrong turn leads them to Titans Tower – where they find much-needed allies in the Teen Titans! The young super heroes discover their combined strength – and sense of humour– are essential to save the day.
Co-written by JK Rowling and directed by David Yates, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore was the 12th biggest box office hit of 2022.
The third instalment in the Harry Potter prequel series, the film is set several years after the events of The Crimes of Grindelwald and follows Newt Scamander and his partners, who are tasked by Professor Albus Dumbledore with a mission that takes them into the heart of dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald’s army.
You can also binge all eight Harry Potter films as well as Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them.
Showmax is also home to Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, Rumble, Paw Patrol: The Movie, Mighty Pups and Ready, Race, Rescue, The Astronauts, The Smeds and Smoos and Young Rock S1-2 and many more.
Take the kids on a movie holiday without breaking the bank as Showmax offers these amazing shows from as low as ₦1,200. Sign up on www.showmax.com to get started.
