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Former NASA engineer turned social media creator Mark Rober will partner with Jimmy Kimmel for a new Netflix kids and family competition show.<\/p>\n
The series, which is currently untitled, will be produced by Rober\u2019s company, CrunchLabs, as well as Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s production company\u2019s Kimmelot, extending Rober and Kimmel\u2019s relationship given Rober\u2019s frequent guest appearances on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d The new series is slated to debut in 2026.<\/p>\n
More from TheWrap<\/strong><\/p>\n Rober and Kimmel will executive produce the new series alongside CrunchLabs chief content officer Scott Lewers and Kimmelot president Scott Lonker.<\/p>\n In addition to the kids and family competition show, Rober\u2019s relationship with Netflix will extend further to bring some of his most beloved and informative experiments to the streamer. Those experiments are expected to land on Netflix later this year.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/figure>\n \u201cI love turning learning into a game, basically hiding the vegetables in the dessert, and now it\u2019s a full-on competition game show!\u201d Rober said in a statement. \u201cWhen you\u2019re having fun, you\u2019re learning without even realizing it. And teaming up with Netflix and Jimmy Kimmel to make this happen? This is gonna be epic!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy kids love Mark Rober, and so do their parents,\u201d Kimmel said in a statement. \u201cMark\u2019s videos are so clever and inventive, it\u2019s easy to forget that they\u2019re educational, too. We can\u2019t wait to introduce one of the best and brightest creators to Netflix.\u201d<\/p>\n Netflix\u2019s partnership with Rober follows in the footsteps of the streamer\u2019s deal with YouTube kids creator Ms. Rachel, which was first added to Netflix in January. \u201cMs. Rachel\u201d was the seventh most-watched Netflix series in the first half of 2025, accounting for 53.4 million views.<\/p>\n \u201cMark Rober\u2019s unique approach to STEM learning inspires all ages \u2013 his storytelling is infectious. When my son and daughter spot a new Build Box at our doorstep, we know that an amazing adventure awaits! Collaborating with CrunchLabs and Kimmel on a competition series for kids is going to be next level and sure to earn me father of the year,\u201d Netflix VP of animation, kids and family series John Derderian said.<\/p>\n The post Mark Rober Partners With Jimmy Kimmel for Netflix Kids and Family Competition Show<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former NASA engineer turned social media creator Mark Rober will partner with Jimmy Kimmel for a new Netflix kids and family competition show. The series, which is currently untitled, will be produced by Rober\u2019s company, CrunchLabs, as well as Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s production company\u2019s Kimmelot, extending Rober and Kimmel\u2019s relationship given Rober\u2019s frequent guest appearances on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1956684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[23060,348459,23191],"class_list":["post-1967224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-mark-rober","tag-netflix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ryan-Reynolds-Dwayne-Johnson-Tessa-Thompson-and-More-Set-Panels.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}