Director: Mike Jones, Jaclyn Simon
Riley's inner world gets back to business in Dream Productions, the animated spin-off series that follows the daydream department of Pixar's Inside Out universe as it scrambles to keep a tween's imagination running on schedule.
What is Dream Productions about?
Set inside Riley's mind, the show hands the spotlight to the studio that manufactures her daydreams, night after night, deadline after deadline. Veteran director Paula Persimmon has built a career on crowd-pleasing fantasies, but she's paired against her will with an untested daydream director who is convinced he already knows how to deliver Riley's next big tween-dream hit. Their creative clash drives each half-hour episode, as the two argue over tone, casting the Emotions in supporting roles, and whether spectacle or heart wins the day. Around them, a small animation-studio ecosystem hums along: pitch meetings, executive notes, and the occasional production disaster, all played for laughs while quietly tracking how Riley's actual adolescence shapes what her mind conjures up at night.
Cast & crew
The voice cast leans on Inside Out veterans, with Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph returning as Joy and Sadness alongside Ally Maki, Liza Lapira, and Tony Hale reprising other Emotions. Paula Pell and Richard Ayoade voice the sparring directors at the center of the daydream studio, giving the show its odd-couple engine.
Context & significance
Dream Productions arrived in 2024 as Pixar's first stand-alone series expansion of the Inside Out world, released in short seasonal batches rather than a single long run. It leans into workplace-comedy structure more than its parent films do, using the daydream-studio conceit to poke fun at how creative teams actually function under pressure.
Where & how to watch
Dream Productions streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so families can watch in Farsi or with original English audio and Farsi text. Viewing requires a free account login; the show's page itself is open to browse without signing in, and the interface is built around a Farsi-first experience for Persian-speaking households.