Piggy Tales is a Finnishcomputer-animated television series based on Bad Piggies, a spin-off of Angry Birds. Animated in a style resembling clay animation, before transitioning into computer-generated imagery after the release of The Angry Birds Movie, the series focuses on the life of the minion pigs, and it has no dialogue. It was produced by Rovio Entertainment, with the French studio Cube Creative providing some of the animation. Piggy Tales premiered in 2014 on the Toons.TV channel through the Angry Birds applications and on the Toons.TV website. The series continued in 2015 with the second season, subtitled Pigs at Work, followed by the third season, subtitled Third Act, in 2016. A fourth and final season, subtitled 4th Street, began airing episodes in 2018. As of June 2016, the whole programme combined had been viewed more than 1 billion times. As of October 2016, the series, along with Angry Birds Toons and Angry Birds Stella, has aired in over 200 territories.
The second season focuses on pigs as they do "pigstruction" work. A special episode based on the Goosebumps film was released after the series' end on 10 February 2016 in the Angry Birds' official YouTube channel.
Season 3: ''Third Act'' (2016–17)
The third season of Piggy Tales is subtitled "Third Act". Consisting of a total of 35 1-minute episodes, the season's main themes are: "Summer Sports", "Back to School", "Halloween" and "Happy Holidays". All episodes are set in a theatre in downtown Pig City, showing pigs as they "rehearse and horse around on-stage." The first episode premiered on 3 June 2016 on the iOS and Android app of Toons.TV, followed by the release on the Toons.TV YouTube channel on 5 June 2016. The last episode was released on 5 February 2017. The pigs' design is based on that of their design in The Angry Birds Movie.
Season 4: ''4th Street'' (2018; 2017 for the season's DVD & iTunes early releases)
A fourth and final season, titled 4th Street, and consisting of 30 episodes, will take place "on a street corner in Pig City where the loveable pigs put a comical spin on everyday situations." Despite plans to release it sometime in 2017, this season was delayed to 2018. Despite this delay, Rovio later released a special Halloween-themed sneak-peek episode of the season, titled "Scary Fog", on October 20, 2017, as part of the Angry Birds' 2017 Halloween celebration, on the Angry Birds YouTube channel. A later one, called Holiday Heist, was released on December 16, 2017, as the franchise celebrated Christmas. Around that time, however, the complete season of Piggy Tales: 4th Street and all of its episodes were released early during December 2017 on iTunes in Piggy Tales Vol. 7 & Piggy Tales Vol. 8 and on DVD in Piggy Tales: The Complete 4th Season. These early releases on DVD & iTunes happened even before the beginning of 2018, as well as the planned schedule for all of the series' episodes to be uploaded in the Angry Birds YouTube channel in 2018. The official release for the series was February 10, 2018, starting with Pig City Valentine.
Home media
is the DVD distributor for the series.
Piggy Tales: The Complete 1st Season
Piggy Tales: Pigs at Work: The Complete 2nd Season