Netflix has bought another run of heart-warming and emotionally-charged Japanese reality doc series Old Enough!. The Japanese-language show, from Nippon TV, will run for another 10 episodes after the 20-episode first season ran on the platform in March 2022.
Old Enough! cut through culturally in English-speaking countries following its Netflix debut and Selena Gomez even spoofed it back in May on Saturday Night Live, and it received 46M Tiktok views.
The format follows toddlers aged two to four are left alone to undertake their first ever errand. Followed by a camera crew and with their families looking on from behind the scenes, the child’s journey is captured as it happens.
Netflix said the new episodes will debut globally on January 1, 2023, with some episodes receiving an ‘After Years’ special feature in which children who go on the errands will recall their journeys and reveal where they are today.
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