Update (6/9) - Official Paramount+ press release:
EMERGENCY MEETING! PARAMOUNT+ ORIGINAL ANIMATED SERIES AMONG US MAKES SURPRISE JUNE 5 PREMIERE ANNOUNCEMENT AT SUMMER GAME FEST
Produced by CBS Studios and Innersloth, All Ten Episodes Streaming Now Exclusively on Paramount+
- June 5, 2026 - Calling all Crewmates! Paramount+ today revealed the surprise premiere of its new original animated series Among Us, announced live at Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles. Created by Owen Dennis and produced by CBS Studios and Innersloth, all ten episodes are now available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.
- The announcement was made on stage by series stars Yvette Nicole Brown and Liv Hewson during the global livestream event. Fans in attendance and watching worldwide were also treated to a first-look at the official trailer.
- Among Us follows a group of eccentric, monochromatic Crewmates of a ship transporting junk across the galaxy who must root out an Impostor in their midst before they fall victim to its villainous designs. The series is based on the globally popular multiplayer social deception game of the same name.
- The voice cast includes Yvette Nicole Brown as “Orange,” Kimiko Glenn as “Cyan,” Liv Hewson as “Black,” Ashley Johnson as “Purple,” Wayne Knight as “Lime,” Phil LaMarr as “Brown,” Randall Park as “Red,” Dan Stevens as “Blue,” Debra Wilson as “Yellow” and “Computer,” Elijah Wood as “Green” and Patton Oswalt as “White.”
- Among Us is created by Owen Dennis, who also serves as executive producer alongside Forest Willard and Marcus Bromander, and Carl Neisser for Innersloth. Titmouse will serve as the animation studios, with executive producers Chris Prynoski, Shannon Prynoski, Antonio Canobbio and Ben Kalina.
- The Among Us game became a global phenomenon, reaching nearly 500 million monthly active users at its peak in Q4 2020. The game generated more than 4 billion views on YouTube and over 1.22 billion viewing sessions on Twitch. In October 2020 alone, it ranked #1 on Google Play in 66 countries and #1 on iOS in 55 countries, with Top 100 placements in nearly every market worldwide.
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Original post (see below for episode guide):
Paramount+ today (June 5) revealed the surprise premiere of its new original animated series Among Us, announced live at Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles. Created by Owen Dennis and produced by CBS Studios and Innersloth, all ten episodes are now available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.
The announcement was made on stage by series stars Yvette Nicole Brown and Liv Hewson during the global livestream event. Fans in attendance and those watching worldwide were also treated to a first look at the official trailer. The announcement comes as a, well, surprise because there had been practically no updates on the project since 2024, when production on the video game adaptation wrapped.
Among Us follows a group of eccentric, monochromatic Crewmates of a ship transporting junk across the galaxy who must root out an Impostor in their midst before they fall victim to its villainous designs.
The Paramount+ series is based on the globally popular multiplayer social deception game of the same name.
The voice cast includes Yvette Nicole Brown (Drake & Josh, Community, The Odd Couple) as “Orange,” Kimiko Glenn (Baby Shark's Big Show, Orange is the New Black) as “Cyan,” Liv Hewson (Yellowjackets, Bombshell) as “Black,” Ashley Johnson (The Last of Us, Blindspot) as “Purple,” Wayne Knight (Catscratch, Seinfeld, Hot in Cleveland) as “Lime,” Phil LaMarr (The Loud House, Futurama) as “Brown,” Randall Park (Always Be My Maybe, Fresh Off the Boat) as “Red,” Dan Stevens (Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Cuckoo) as “Blue,” Debra Wilson (Baby Shark's Big Show, MADtv) as “Yellow” and “Computer,” Elijah Wood (The Lords of the Rings trilogy, Wilford) as “Green,” and Patton Oswalt (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, The Goldbergs, The King of Queens) as “White.”
Among Us is created by Owen Dennis, who also serves as executive producer alongside Forest Willard and Marcus Bromander, and Carl Neisser for Innersloth. Titmouse serves as the animation studio, with executive producers Chris Prynoski, Shannon Prynoski, Antonio Canobbio and Ben Kalina.
"Emergency Meeting #42," Innersloth announced on their official dev blog. "IT’S FINALLY HERE CREWMATES!! At LOOOOOOOOOONG last, we can finally say the words so many of you have waited to hear: THE AMONG US ANIMATED SHOW IS OUT NOW! The entire show is available on Paramount+, with the first episode free now on their YouTube page. We’ve been so amazed by the work of CBS, Owen Dennis, and Titmouse. We couldn’t have gotten here without our producers Carl Neisser, and of course, Fortebass and Puffballs. We hope you love the show as much as we do!"
The Among Us game became a global phenomenon, reaching nearly 500 million monthly active users at its peak in Q4 2020. The game generated more than 4 billion views on YouTube and over 1.22 billion viewing sessions on Twitch.
In October 2020 alone, it ranked #1 on Google Play in 66 countries and #1 on iOS in 55 countries, with Top 100 placements in nearly every market worldwide.
Once fans have watched the show enough to memorize all the lines, they are invited to pop into Among Us game and continue all the mischief. The new Showbiz Cosmicube is available right now via the in-game store for 4,000 Beans. Themed after the show, they’ll be able to rock the fits of their favorite character(s). Once purchased, activate the Cosmicube to start earning pods for:
Brown’s Apron Skin; Line Cook Hat; White’s Polo Skin; Lime’s Bandana Hat; Lines of Wisdom Visor; Lime’s Work Gear Skin; Blue’s Mirror Hat; Blue’s Labcoat Skin; Red’s Captain’s Hat; Red’s Uniform Skin; Purple’s Cap; Purple’s Uniform Skin; Orange’s Jacket Skin; Black’s Eyeliner Visor; Black’s Choker Skin; Cyan’s Headband; Cyan’s Tie-dye Skin; Green’s Cap; Green’s Hoodie Skin; Yellow’s Apron Skin; Trust Ball Pet; and It’s Right Behind You! Nameplate.
Fire up a lobby with your friends and recreate scenes from the show with the map decorations placed around The Skeld. Just remember to update to v17.4.0 so you can get the Cosmicube and decorations. And don’t worry, these cosmetics will be in the store FOREVER so you have plenty of time to gather your Beans.
Among Us has also released a brand new space themed Cosmic Cosmicube for 70 Stars. "Let your Crewmate take a trip in a little rocket ship, or chill with an Alien Space Cat. Just like space, this Cosmicube will go on forever!," said Innersloth.
Innersloth has also announced Among Us Story: On Guard, a upcoming narrative-driven adventure based in the Among Us universe. Fans will be able to get hands on with the game with a demo releasing on Among Us’s 8th birthday, Monday, June 15th, 2026!
Among Us Season 1 Episode Guide:
A Pizza Party Where Nothing Bad Happens: Two newcomers tour The Skeld just before disaster strikes! (#101; series premiere)
You Can't Be Hot And Smart: A dead body is found – Who ya gonna call? Hot Doctor! (#102)
CHAOS HAS FOUND A NEW HOME!: Something isn't right on board. Time for the first EMERGENCY MEETING! (#103)
AND THEY LIKE TO KILL!: Factions form, pizza is eaten, and the hunter may become hunted. (#104)
Good Vibes Only: The crew votes out the Impostor… but something feels off. (#105)
Insecurity In Security: Equipment on board has been sabotaged the crew must figure it out… again. (#106)
6 Angry Crewmates: Crewmates are put on trial, secrets come out, and decisions get even harder. (#107)
Impostor Syndrome: Alliances form as blame spreads and a startling discovery changes things. (#108)
I'm Just Venting: Fewer survivors, rising panic, and a reactor on the brink. (#109)
Everyone Is Still Alive. No One Is Dead.: Survival is on the line, secrets collide, and long-running tensions finally explode. (#110; season one finale)
From Animation Magazine:
Show Creator Owen Dennis Tells All About His New Adaptation of ‘Among Us’ Which Secretly Debuted on Paramount+ Today
Paramount+ today revealed the surprise premiere of its new original animated series Among Us, announced live at Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles. Created by Owen Dennis (Infinity Train) and produced by CBS Studios and game developer Innersloth, all 10 episodes are now available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.
Among Us follows a group of eccentric, monochromatic Crewmates of a ship transporting junk across the galaxy who must root out an Impostor in their midst before they fall victim to its villainous designs. The series is based on the globally popular multiplayer social deception game of the same name. The voice cast also includes Kimiko Glenn as Cyan, Ashley Johnson as Purple, Wayne Knight as Lime, Phil LaMarr as Brown, Randall Park as Red, Dan Stevens as Blue, Debra Wilson as Yellow and Computer, Elijah Wood as Green and Patton Oswalt as White.
The animated series is based on the game of the same name, which became a global phenomenon, reaching nearly 500 million monthly active users at its peak in Q4 2020, generated more than 4 billion views on YouTube and over 1.22 billion viewing sessions on Twitch, and ranked #1 on Google Play in 66 countries and #1 on iOS in 55 countries in October 2020 alone, with Top 100 placements in nearly every market worldwide.
Dennis also serves as executive producer alongside Forest Willard and Marcus Bromander, and Carl Neisser for Innersloth. Titmouse is the series animation studio, with executive producers Chris Prynoski, Shannon Prynoski, Antonio Canobbio and Ben Kalin.
We recently had the the chance to speak with Dennis about the launch of his eagerly anticipated game adaptation. Here is what the talented artist shared with us:
Congrats on your show finally making its streaming debut on Friday. Can you take us back on how you became involved with the adaptation of this popular game?
Owen Dennis: I believe I first started to work on this project in 2022 when I heard that Innersloth were looking for pitches. I sent them my pitch which was basically make a TV show version of the game. I guess people were concerned that there’s not story to the game, but that’s not true. Everytime you play the game it’s the same rough story, which is about a bunch of people on a ship where someone on the crew is murdering everyone, and everybody has to figure out who that is. I thought that was enough. We have enough of a story there. We just have to figure out who your characters are. So, I pitched my idea of what I wanted to do and they were into it and we were off.
Was there an animation studio involved at that point?
I had worked at Cartoon Network for most of my career, so I was pretty open to trying out different animation companies. I had heard good things about Titmouse, and I decided that I’d like to work with them. The studio is also close to my house, so it all sounded great. We worked with Sunmin (in Korea) which was of our overseas studios. They do great hand-drawn animation work and worked with me on Infinity train. I still appreciate their work, so I wanted to work with them too. So, we got together with Titmouse and Sunmin and worked it through with CBS as well.
So, after the got the greenlight from Innersloth and CBS, you put your team together?
Innersloth paid for three days for me and some writers where we sat down and roughed out what the arc would be. We slowly began building up the team, some people from Infinity Train and other shows. Because the characters don’t have eyes or mouths, they’re very hard to emote, so I wanted to get the artists from a show where they had a lot of emotion, where they really pushed the characters and did things emotionally with color and character shapes. I actually worked with a lot of people from OK, K.O! Let’s Be Heroes because I liked the way they addressed that short of thing on their show. They took a lot of inspiration from anime, which I don’t have a large background in. The goal was to get a lot of people who had backgrounds in very expressive animation styles.
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| Among Us was produced by Titmouse in partnership with Innersloth and CBS Studios. |
How big was your team in L.A.?
We had about 30 people. We had a writers room where we did the scripts. I worked on Regular Show and Infinity Train, which was a script-driven show. On Regular Show, we found that it was hard sometimes keeping the larger arcs intact. On Infinity Train, we were going to do the same episode lengths, but we began with scripts, and that made it a lot easier to track emotions across multiple episodes. It’s funny because at the time, Cartoon Network hadn’t done scripted shows for about 15 years. I was like, “Hey, check this out. It’s my idea, and it’s called a script, and everybody was like, “Oh, how strange!” So we did the same thing on Among Us.
OK, now maybe you can talk about the show’s animation style and interesting, minimalistic visuals?
As I said, because the characters are eyeless and mouthless yeah, we had to come up with different ways for them to express emotions, it’s about how can you stretch and push the characters and ways that you can understand what the emotion is without breaking the characters. Fortunately, the Among Us character designs are some of the most iconic character designs of the past ten to 15 years. Anyone can draw them because you only have three lines. That led us to push the characters in whichever direction we wanted for comedy or for drama.
Then for the backgrounds, we took a lot of inspiration from Mike Mignola’s work, a bit from Invader Zim and My Neighbors, the Yamadas. We really pushed the designs because we wanted to make sure it didn’t just look like the game. The goal was to make it look like its own thing.
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| After a few years of development, “Among Us” arrives on Paramount+ on Friday, June 5. |
What do you think is the most difficult aspect of adapting a game into an animated show?
In games, the player has agency, while in a TV show or a movie, the viewer doesn’t have that agency. You are just an observer. It has to stand on its own and not be constantly compared to the game. It needs to be its own universe. That was quite important to me. One of the reasons the Marvel movies were so successful was because initially they took a bunch of things from the comics, but they also made them their own things, and that’s why it’s called the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So, you have to do the same thing when you’re adapting any media, whether it’s videogames, comics or books.
Are you a gamer yourself? What do you think are some of the best game adaptations?
I like games a lot, but you know, I’m tired all the time, so I guess I am not much of a gamer because of that! Definitely, it has to be The Last of Us. Then, there was this great April Fool’s Day parody of The Legend of Zenda by IGN from 2008, which was really great. Those are the two that I can think of right now.
Now that you show is ready to meet its eager audience, what are you most pleased about the final product?
You know I feel happy that we accomplished our goals of making people feel emotions for these characters that look kind of silly. My whole desire is to take characters that look ridiculous and make people feel emotions for them.
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| One of the key challenges for Owen Dennis and his team was making the audience care for characters that look very silly at first glance. |
What is biggest difference between this animated universe and and the world of the original game?
One major difference is that there’s a lot of more interpersonal relationships. A big thing for me was that this world is about trusting people and why we trust whoever we trust. You have to build on people’s pre-existing relationships and how they know each other. That informs your opinion of why you think someone is trustworthy and why I think someone is an evil alien killer or something. The show is more about interpersonal relationships than just being a whodunit.
We couldn’t let you go without asking about Infinity Train. You know how much fans love to have some news about any upcoming developments on that front!
The truth is that I’m always trying. I always reach out multiple times a year and ask, “Hey guys, you want to make more Infinity Train? I would love to make more. We have that whole movie, and I’d love to make something that goes parallel with the original, after the fourth season.
We would all love that too, and best of luck with your new show!
The first season of Among Us (10 episodes) premiered on Paramount+ today (June 5).
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Originally published: June 06, 2026.
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