The Spide

The Spide is an upcoming animated science-fiction dramedy created by Derrick Wilson and will be streaming on the Gradient streaming service. It will also air on CPN Two in El Kadsre. It's the first animated original on the service.

Premise
16-year-old Miles Neyla knows that she's a weirdo but when she gets a bit by a radioactive spider, she doesn't get powers like Spider-Man, instead, she passes out, and when she wakes up 2 hours later, 6 more arms grow on her.

Production
Derrick Wilson, a graduate in animation was drawing with a Sharpie and 3 markers the character one day until he made a mistake with the arms and give his character 4 arms by accident, then he came up with the idea to give hit 8 arms like how a spider has 8 legs. He decided to pitch it to streaming services Hulu, Gradient, HBO Max and Netflix with Gradient being the one picking it up first saying that "Miles is unique and relatable"