#TBT: Margaret Ying Drake announces greenlighting of "Butterbean's Café" season 2

To keep spirits up while the studios have been quieter than normal, we’ve brought back some of our favorite projects, stories, and collaborations. Dubway is re-opening under the Phase Two regulations in place for NYC, and we felt like doing a final celebratory look backward before returning to the present day. With that in mind, #TBT this week comes courtesy of actress Margaret Ying Drake and our colleagues at Nickelodeon.

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Dubway has worked with Nick Jr. on a number of projects, providing services from voice-over recording and dialogue editing, to sound design and soundtrack recording. One of the more recent and exciting series is Butterbean’s Cafe, an animated series for preschool-aged children about a fairy café. Today, we’re throwing it back to this Instagram pic from Butterbean voice actress Margaret Ying Drake, which actually helped break the news that a second season of the show had been renewed! Margaret snapped the pic in one of Dubway’s Main Floor sound rooms during a session engineered by Louis Fisher, who does much of the automated dialogue recording (ADR) work for the series.

The first season of Butterbean’s Café received excellent reviews, including an Emmy nomination in the “Outstanding Performer in a Preschool Animated Program” category. We were overjoyed to hear the show got a well-deserved renewal, and are excited for more success as the second season comes out!

Butterbean season two is currently still airing and is partway through the season. If you have young kids in the house, you can check it out every Sunday morning at 10:30am on Nick Jr, or at the Butterbean website linked above.