Shrek: The Story Continues

Shrek: The Story Continues is a flash-animated comedy adventure fantasy television series produced by DreamWorks Animation Television, set to release on Peacock on May 1, 2024, 20 years after the release of Shrek 2 (2004). The series itself is based on the Shrek franchise and is the second series in the franchise after The Adventures of Puss in Boots (2015–2018). The series takes place after the events of Shrek Forever After (2010) and before Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) and focuses on the titular character, as well as his friends Donkey and Puss in Boots, and wife Princess Fiona, on adventures throughout Far Far Away and other places beyond the fairy tale universe.

Main

 * Shrek (voiced by Michael Gough) – The titular character; a once feared ogre who owns and lives a land of swamp. He is the husband of Princess Fiona and the father of their three baby children.
 * Donkey (voiced by Dean Edwards) – The deuteragonist; a talking donkey who is Shrek's annoying best-friend. He is the husband of Dragon and father of the Dronkeys. "Every Donkey Has His Day" reveals that his full name is Sylvester Donkey Duncan Jr. and revealed to be the son of Sylvester Duncan Sr., of the William Steig storybook Sylvester and the Magic Pebble.
 * Princess Fiona (voiced by Holly Fields) – The tritagonist; a princess who was once cursed until her husband Shrek had lifted it. She is the daughter of King Harold and Queen Lilian, wife of Shrek and mother of their three children.
 * Puss in Boots (voiced by Eric Bauza) – The secondary tritagonist; a talking Latin tabby-cat who is friends with Shrek and Donkey.

Secondary

 * Farkle (voiced by Atticus Shaffer), Fergus (voiced by Sean Giambrone), and Felicia (voiced by Sarah-Nicole Robles) – Shrek and Fiona's children, having become prepubescent sometime after Shrek Forever After.
 * Pinocchio (voiced by Cody Cameron) – A live wooden puppet of the fairy tale Pinocchio, made by his adopted father Geppetto.
 * Gingy (voiced by Conrad Vernon) – A live talking gingerbread man of the fairy tale The Gingerbread Man, who was baked by the Muffin Man.
 * The Three Little Pigs (voiced by Cody Cameron) – A trio of talking pigs of the fairy tale The Three Little Pigs, who are builders.
 * The Big Bad Wolf (voiced by Aron Warner) – An anthropomorphic talking wolf of the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood, who is an acquaintance of the Pigs.
 * The Three Blind Mice (voiced by Christopher Knights) – Three talking mice of the English nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice that wear sunglasses and are blind.
 * The Magic Mirror (voiced by Chris Miller) – A mirror with a live spirit that can communicate through it, and has magical displaying abilities.
 * Dragon (vocal effects by Frank Welker; voiced by Estelle Swaray via narration in "A Day in Life of Dragon") – A red dragon who once guarded Fiona until she was rescued by Shrek. She is the wife of Donkey and mother of the Dronkeys. "Every Donkey Has His Day" reveals that her true name is Elizabeth, in reference to Donkey shouting "I'm comin', Elizabeth!" before passing out from the effects of the Happily Ever After potion in Shrek 2.
 * The Dronkeys (vocal effects by Frank Welker) – The half-donkey/half-dragon children of Donkey and Dragon who are friends with the Ogre Triplets, notably Bananas (voiced by Kath Soucie) and Debbie (voiced by Jessica DiCicco).
 * Brogan (voiced by Jon Hamm) – Leader of the Ogre clan.
 * Cookie (voiced by Craig Robinson) – Chef of the Ogre clan.
 * Gretched (voiced by Jane Lynch) – Second-in-command of the Ogre clan.
 * Red Riding Hood (voiced by Tara Strong) – A teenage girl of the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood, who is an undetectable pickpocket. Since losing her grandmother by the Big Bad Wolf, she works as a door-to-door to cope with her loss. She had a brief appearance in Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third and was a playable character in the video game based on the former.
 * Queen Lilian (voiced by Candi Milo) – Queen of Far Far Away, wife of the late King Harold, mother of Princess Fiona and mother-in-law of Shrek.
 * King Harold (voiced by John Cleese) – Once king of Far Far Away until he had passed away in his frog form. He was the husband of Queen Lilian, father of Princess Fiona and father-in-law of Shrek. His ghost appears from his burial outside his kingdom.
 * King Arthur "Artie" Pendragon (voiced by Yuri Lowenthal) – Fiona's cousin and current ruler of Far Far Away following the events of Shrek the Third. During his time as king, Artie has since taken responsibility on the job while also doing independent tasks when necessary.

Appearing in flashbacks

 * Lord Farquaad (voiced by John Lithgow) – The now-deceased narcissistic, ruthless and diminutive ruler of Duloc who had made a deal with Shrek to have him rescue Fiona in exchange for returning his swamp.
 * Kitty Softpaws (voiced by Margo Rey) – Puss' former partner in crime and girlfriend.
 * Gonzalo, Perla, and Sir Timoteo Montenegro the Third – The Three Diablos, who were henchmen to the late French thief Le Chuchoteur a.k.a. the Whisperer before Puss had redeemed them. They make a brief appearance in a flashback in "The Princess and the Cat".

Development
An idea for the series was pitched to DreamWorks and the the chosen writers for the series were film writers Joe Stillman, Roger S. H. Schulman, and David N. Weiss, and Shrek 2 director Conrad Vernon rather than hiring original writers who weren't associated with the franchise; all of which had signed on. Walt Dohrn, voice of Rumpelstiltskin in Shrek Forever After; and storyboard artist Sean Bishop later became part of the storyboarding and writing crew. Vernon, Cody Cameron, Raman Hui, Bob Persichetti, Alice Herring, Gary Graham, Tom Caulfield, Anthony Holden, and Gaspar Xavier are brought on as the storyboard artists for the series after previously storyboarding the film series. Gary Trousdale, director of Shrek the Halls and Scared Shrekless, served as the primary director on the series.

Cast
Michael Gough reprises the title character from previous video games titles and the DreamWorksTV YouTube videos, along with Dean Edwards returning as Donkey from the Halloween special Scared Shrekless, the Halloween short Thriller Night, Motiongate Dubai's dark ride Shrek's Merry Fairy Tale Journey, and DreamWorks Theatre's attraction Kung Fu Panda Adventure; Holly Fields as Princess Fiona who has voiced her in countless pieces of media, and Eric Bauza as Puss in Boots from the spin-off series The Adventures of Puss in Boots and the Puss in Boots: The Last Wish short The Trident. The cast members from the films such as Vernon, Cameron, Aron Warner and Chris Miller reprise their roles.

Animation
Titmouse, who has provided animation for Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh and The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, provides animation for the series, rather than using computer animation as the film series had used. The animation is based on the storybook artstyle from the beginning of Shrek Forever After, by Griselda Sastrawinata and Normand Lemay (better known as Griz and Norm). For the backgrounds of the storybook appearance, the animators took inspiration not only Griz and Norm's Forever After production artwork of the storybook artstyle, but also the storybook openings from Shrek, Shrek 2, and Forever After.

Music
Halli Cauthery, who composed the Halloween special Scared Shrekless, was hired to compose the music for the series while capturing the iconic melody from the film series composed by Harry Gregson-Williams; Alf Clausen, former composer of The Simpsons, was originally chosen. Smash Mouth's "All Star", the iconic song from the first Shrek, was used for the opening sequence, while the franchise's leitmotif "Fairytale" was used for the end credits.