Little Einsteins is an animate television series on Playhouse Disney developed for television by Douglas Wood who created the series concept and characters, and a subsequent team headed by Eric Weiner of Dora the Explorer fame, Emmy Award winning Director Olexa Hewryk, and produced by Curious Pictures, The Baby Einstein Company and Disney Channel. Little Einsteins began as a direct-to-video movie Our Big Huge Adventure, released on August 23, 2005. The TV series began on October 9. On October 5, Little Einsteins was broadcast in Japan on TV Tokyo. In Europe, the second season of the show premiered on Disney Channel, around Christmas time.