NEWS | Chuck Loris™ Noodle & Caboodle & Kaizen Pop LLC to launch original animated show

PRESS RELEASE | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | 09/10/2026

Noodle & Caboodle and KaizenPop to Co-Develop Chuck LorisTM, an Original Martial-Arts Action-Comedy Built for Screen, Gaming, Social and Beyond

Noodle & Caboodle originates and leads development, creative and brand. KaizenPop

co-develops across series, game and social.

LONDON and MIAMI, 9 October 2026. Noodle & Caboodle Entertainment (“N&C”) and

KaizenPop LLC today announced a strategic co-development partnership on Chuck Loris™, an original animated martial-arts action-comedy for audiences aged 8 to 12.

Created by Rich Staplehurst, Moonbug Entertainment alum and CCO of Noodle & Caboodle, the property will be developed across multiple platforms from his original concept, characters and story.

Chuck Loris™ pairs an animated series with an interconnected, character-driven game, conceived from the outset as a single world rather than an adaptation of one medium into another.

The two companies co-develop the property end to end. Noodle & Caboodle originates the world and leads creative, character design, narrative, scripting and wider brand extensions. KaizenPop co-develops alongside them across series, game and social, structures the production and financial framework, and applies its audience intelligence practice to identify and build the property’s audience ahead of launch.

Chuck Loris™ also enters KodaPop, KaizenPop’s tribe-first IP incubator, as a title in its Creators Program.

Launched in 2026 on the principle that creators keep their masters, KodaPop gives the

property a direct route to a community of creators and the audiences those creators already hold, from development onward rather than at release.

The partnership is creatively led by Rich Staplehurst (Founder & CCO, Noodle & Caboodle),

developed in tandem with Ailing Zubizarreta (Cofounder & CCO, KaizenPop), with Bruno Zarka

(Cofounder & CEO, KaizenPop) as Producer, overseeing the production and financial framework.

The announcement follows the appointment of Jay Francis, formerly Vice President of

Development at Disney, to the Noodle & Caboodle advisory board, adding further senior

development experience to the studio as it enters this phase of growth.

Logline

Chuck is a young slow loris. Stranded in a world he doesn’t understand, he discovers martial arts, friendship and adventure. With his new friends, he must use his newfound skills to take on the criminal underworld and lead the way home.

“ I first shared Chuck with Ailing last year at MIPJUNIOR in Cannes, and I knew after that conversation that KaizenPop were the right partners. At its heart, the show is a tribute to the action heroes and martial artists I looked up to as a kid in the 90s. The characters and concept are hugely inspired by my Sensei, Gabriel, and my own journey as a karate student at Dojo Van Rel in London, UK. I want to make something with a hint of nostalgia that is fresh and exciting for young audiences, whether they practise martial arts or not. It’s an action-comedy where the morals and philosophy arrive inside the entertainment rather than on top of it, with a group of characters who will entertain young audiences, not simply distract them. Chuck has been built from the ground up as one world with huge transmedia potential from day one, and KaizenPop’s reach and community-building expertise make them the right partners to land it with the audience it was made for."

- Rich Staplehurst, Founder & Chief Creative Officer of N&C.

“ Rich did not bring us a pitch, he brought us a world with its point of view already living inside it. Chuck LorisTM is about the difference between not just copying something (principles, attitudes or moves) but truly understanding it, and that is a beautiful thing to give a nine-year-old. What KaizenPop does is find the kids that world belongs to and bring them to Chuck LorisTM before the series arrives, never after."

- Ailing Zubizarreta, Cofounder and Chief Creative Officer of KaizenPop.

About Noodle & Caboodle Entertainment
Noodle & Caboodle Ent Ltd is a boutique IP and entertainment studio founded and led by RichStaplehurst, creating and developing original animated and live-action properties.

Alongside this, the studio takes on select work adapting existing properties for global markets and runs Kit & Caboodle, a development programme that helps first-time IP owners take their properties from concept to industry-ready.

About KaizenPop

KaizenPop LLC is an entertainment intellectual property development, co-production and audienceintelligence company with operations in Miami, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Amsterdam. Founded in December 2025 by Ailing Zubizarreta and Bruno Zarka, KaizenPop develops and co-produces original IP for kids, family and young-adult audiences, and works alongside creators, studios and broadcasters on digital-first strategy, audience building and monetisation.

The company invests its own capital in selected properties and co-owns the IP it builds.

Media contacts

Noodle & Caboodle Entertainment: Rich Staplehurst, rich@noodleandcaboodle.tv

KaizenPop LLC: Ailing Zubizarreta, zubi@kaizenpop.com