Denis and Me is a Canadian animated television series created by YouTuber Denis Kopotun and Diana Moore, produced by Headspinner Productions and distributed by WildBrain. It is animated at Cartoon Conrad in Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia.
The series follows about a teenager named Denis, who is portrayed by Kopotun as a fictionalised version of himself, and his cat Sir Meows A Lot. As of 2026, it is running on the Canadian streaming service Crave, and formerly on WildBrain Television's Family Channel. The French dubbing of the show, Denis et moi, formerly aired on Télémagino from July 31, 2021. All the episodes and specials are also available globally on the official YouTube channel.
Premise The series follows the misadventures of Denis, a teenager who is a fictionalised version of Kopotun, and his best friend and pet cat Sir Meows A Lot. Denis is portrayed as the optimistic straight man who is oblivious to the plans of Sir Meows A Lot, who usually comes up with evil schemes and shenanigans, such as cloning Denis or plotting world domination. The episodes usually end with Denis receiving the impact of Sir Meows A Lot's plots after much chaos. The series features recurring characters, most notably Lady Barks A Bit, a Shiba Inu with whom Sir Meows A Lot retains a rivalry, and tries to get attention of Denis.
Development Kopotun started his YouTube channel in 2016, uploading comedic gaming videos centered around Roblox and Minecraft. The channel also featured a plush cat named Sir Meows A Lot, who was based on a Roblox accessory.
The show started development in 2018, announcing the showrunner as Diana Moore and executed producers as Headspinner Productions founder Michelle Melanson, and Ken Cuperus, along with Moore. The project was first announced in September 2018 as a development deal between Kopotun and Headspinner Productions, under the working title DENIS and Me, targeting a 6–9 age demographic. Production began in mid-2020, with financing secured from the Canada Media Fund and the Shaw Rocket Fund, and the series debuted that fall on Crave and YouTube. Season 1 launched in December 2020 on YouTube, quickly amassing over 320,000 subscribers and 20 million views.
Kopotun publicly announced it on his channel on July 7, 2020.
The series’ first 9 episodes were budgeted with US$374,612. The Canada Media Fund provided US$16,790, while Bell Media offered around 10 percent of that total, to produce a series bible, scripts, and an animatic. 75 percent of the budget was funded by Shaw Rocket Fund's new Kids Digital Animated Series program, and producer investment and tax credits covered the remaining 25 percent.
The visuals were animated by Cartoon Conrad in Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia, Canada, and the voice acting for all the characters was done by Kopotun.
The first season had 10 3-minute episodes produced, while the second season had 20 3-minute episodes produced. In May 2021, WildBrain and Headspinner Productions announced a deal for a second season of 20 three-minute episodes, commissioned by WildBrain Television's Family Channel in Canada, which also picked up the first season's 10 three-minute episodes for broadcast that summer. WildBrain additionally took on global distribution of the series and management of its YouTube channel, including direct advertising sales, through its WildBrain Spark network. The show reached its second season as of 2022, with four 11-minute specials beginning to air in February 2022 as a test toward longer episodes. The animated YouTube channel associated with the series had accumulated nearly 400,000 subscribers and over 22 million views across its first two seasons. A merchandise line was also launched in connection with the series.
Season 3 has had 5 11-minute episodes produced.
Episodes A total of 35 episodes have aired across 3 seasons. One of the series' more popular episodes, "Lemonade Stand-Off", was inspired by Kopotun's own childhood lemonade-stand ventures.
Season 1 (2020) The show's first season had a total of 10 episodes, with the first two episodes released on November 28 and a new episode released each day until December 6.
Season 2 (2021–22) The show's second season had a total of 20 episodes, with two of them split into two parts. Five of these episodes had first aired in October and December 2021.
Season 3 (2023) As of recent, a total of 4 episodes have aired sporadically, each being 11 minutes.
Release The series premiered on December 4, 2020, as part of WOW Unlimited Media's WOW! World Kids Collection on Crave. WildBrain's Family Channel network premiered the first season in the summer of 2021, with the second released later that fall. Seasons 1 and 2 are globally released on the official YouTube channel, with Canada being geo-blocked.
In Japan, it is also aired on Disney Channel.
Reception The special Santa Who? was nominated for Best Animated Program or Series at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.
Denis Kopotun
Denis Kopotun (born June 5, 1996), known online as DenisDaily and Denis, is a Canadian YouTuber and content creator based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is known for his Roblox and Minecraft gameplay videos, and is the creator of Denis and Me. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Media list in 2023.
Early life Born in Edmonton, his family briefly moved to Nashville when Kopotun was 3 before returning to Canada the following year after his father received a job as a math professor at the University of Manitoba, a university in Winnipeg. Being of Ukrainian descent, his parents had immigrated from Ukraine to Canada; they spoke in both Russian and English to him and his older brother, Nikita Kopotun.
As a child, Kopotun spent much of his time training as a competitive ballet dancer, an ambition he pursued until he was sidelined by tendonitis in his knee at age 17. He has said that his ballet training instilled a personal discipline and work ethic that later carried over into his career as a content creator and entrepreneur.
Kopotun began posting videos online at age 11 as a creative outlet. He has described an early interest in creating things, beginning with claymation stop-motion as a child.
At 17, he told his older brother, Nikita, that he wanted to leave school to pursue Roblox streaming full-time. He went on to enroll at the University of British Columbia Okanagan but dropped out to focus on content creation.
YouTube Kopotun rose to mainstream audiences through Roblox and Minecraft gameplay videos on YouTube, where he goes by the name DenisDaily. By the time of his Forbes 30 Under 30 recognition in 2023, he had drawn more than 9 million subscribers on the platform. As of 2022, he had made approximately 5,000 video postings, with his most popular video reaching 30 million views.
During his Roblox gameplay, Kopotun developed original characters, including a cat companion called Sir Meows A Lot, who was featured in his series Denis and Me.
Denis founded a Roblox YouTuber group called "The Pals," bringing together his friends Sketch, AlexCrafted, SubZeroExtabyte, and CorlHorl. The group disbanded in 2019 following a social media controversy involving Corl.
On December 16, 2023, under the video, "My Next Chapter", Kopotun announced his departure from content creating, stating that his focus is shifting towards Roblox game development. Since then, he has not uploaded any video.
Business ventures and philanthropy Kopotun serves as CEO of Denis Entertainment. A significant portion of his income, roughly 30%, comes from merchandise sales tied to his content, including products based on Sir Meows A Lot.
His merchandise business was built in partnership with Juniper, a Toronto-based e-commerce company cofounded in 2016 by his older brother, Nikita Kopotun, along with Joel Wegner, Will Cartar, and Ryan Wong. Nikita Kopotun, who had studied engineering at Queen's University and interned at Cisco in China, used manufacturing connections from Shanghai to help his younger brother produce stuffed-animal merchandise after Denis left school to pursue streaming full-time. Juniper went on to work with other influencers and generated $31 million in revenue in 2020. Nikita Kopotun was himself named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2021 for his work building Juniper.
Kopotun has volunteered with the Make-A-Wish Foundation and, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, organized a charity livestream that raised over $50,000 for war relief efforts.
Recognition In 2023, Kopotun was included on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the Social Media category. His Forbes profile credited him with drawing more than 9 million YouTube subscribers over seven years and launching both Denis and Me and an accompanying toy line.
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