When
DreamWorks bought
Classic Media and
Big Idea Entertainment in 2012, all
VeggieTales productions produced at Big Idea were to be controlled and overseen by DreamWorks. As a result,
DreamWorks launched production of the
Netflix original series
VeggieTales in the House in late 2013 and announced that it would shut down production of the original VeggieTales
direct-to-DVD series after the release of its 58th episode entitled
VeggieTales: Noah's Ark in 2015. DreamWorks replaced the original creative crew that had been working at
Big Idea Entertainment for nearly two decades with an entirely new team of nearly 75 artists led under the direction of
Doug TenNapel. VeggieTales creators
Phil Vischer and
Mike Nawrocki were given no control over the creative content of
VeggieTales in the House and were only allowed to provide the characters' voices. Since DreamWorks ordered 78 22-minute episodes for
VeggieTales in the House in 2013, production of the last 13 episodes wrapped up in the summer of 2017 and DreamWorks' team left Big Idea Entertainment to work on new animated series for Netflix such as
Trolls: The Beat Goes On! and
Dragons: Rescue Riders. DreamWorks then sold Big Idea Entertainment's headquarters in Franklin, Tennessee once production concluded. While the last season of
VeggieTales in the City premiered on Netflix in the fall of 2017, marketing employees continued to work for Big Idea Entertainment. As discussions to revise the series began to take place in 2018,
NBCUniversal, would now manage
Big Idea Entertainment itself as a in-name-only subsidiary through
DreamWorks Classics. In late 2018, Vischer received a phone call from
The Trinity Broadcast Network, which was in talks to license VeggieTales from NBCUniversal in order to create a new
reboot. Lisa Vischer, the original voice of Junior Asparagus, also returned from a five-year hiatus to reprise the role. With this being said, Vischer has made
The VeggieTales Show go more theologically in-depth than the previous few series (from the "Netflix era"). It teaches the tenets of Christianity rather than just teaching children to behave morally. though Vischer later filled in as the voice of the character in select episodes. Due to the high number of
iTunes digital downloads for the pilot, "The Best Christmas Gift", as well as the large number of DVDs sold in the first two weeks of its release, TBN ordered an additional eight episodes for the first season on November 1, 2019, bringing the total number of episodes to 26. ==Distribution==