DEGENERATE
TV SERIES IN DEVELOPMENT . 10x26 MIN
An out-of-work performance artist and soft-core anti-capitalist starts a new job at the world’s largest tech monopoly. Her half-sister already works there, obsessed with performance and desperate to be noticed by the founder. When they discover he plans to leave a crumbling Earth for a billionaires-only planet, these two are going to have to get along. And that is where things really get started.
INFORMATION
CATEGORY SERIES
STATUS IN DEVELOPMENT
FORMAT 10x26 MINS
SYNOPSIS
In a not-so-distant future, recreational drugs are legal, Batman fights Peppa Pig in the twenty-seventh update of Stardew Valley, and any self-respecting billionaire owns a pet dinosaur. AI has killed art. Almost. Live performance has never done better.
This is the world Valerie is trying to survive in. Out-of-work performance artist and soft-core anti-capitalist, she starts her new job at Big Company convinced she has sold her soul. Her half-sister Patti is already there, a type-A robotics engineer obsessed with work, dreaming of being noticed by founder Bryan Bygge. Who promptly falls for Valerie instead. Of course.
But when the two sisters discover that Bryan plans to replace all human performers with AI robots and abandon a near-apocalyptic Earth for a private planet reserved for billionaires, they have no choice: they must work together. However dysfunctional that team turns out to be.
Dégénéré·es is an adult animated series that is warm, funny, and quietly hopeful, about the love of meaningful work, the neuroses of being thirty-something, and the question of whether artists still have a place in a world run by machines.
Styleframes
The team
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Director / Graphic artist
Jordan Bruner
Jordan Bruner is a Brooklyn based director and artist. Her animated short films and music videos have shown in festivals around the world, and have received international attention for their charm, whimsy and strong sense of voice.
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PRODUCER
Robin Noël
Robin began his career in feature films alongside Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache for the company Quad Films, assisting them on internationally acclaimed films. He joined Troublemakers in 2020, sharing founder James Hagger’s ambition to develop and carry ambitious long format projects, blurring the imposed boundaries of genre and technique.
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FOUNDER / CEO / PRODUCER
James Hagger
James Hagger is a producer and the founder of Troublemakers. He views production as a space for dialogue between storytelling, craftsmanship, and artistic integrity. Trained in London in the late 1990s as an assistant director, he worked alongside Nick Love, Kevin Reynolds, Christian Volckman, and Harmony Korine—experiences that have shaped his vision.
