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The studio’s writer program is also a full-time, paid, yearlong initiative and is aimed at television comedy writers, offering experiences in live-action and animation writers’ rooms.

Yet blending all of these aspects together, as well as tackling the sincerity with a hefty dose of outlandishness, proves unwieldy for writer-director Peter Hastings (“Country Bears”).

After the preschool years, kids still like cartoons, but they want something more complex than straightforward messages about friendship and sharing. They like a bit of conflict, some bad guys (who ...