Sitting Ducks is a children's animated television series based on the 1977 "Sitting Ducks" lithograph and the 1998 children's book of the same name, created by the poster artist Michael Bedard. Sitting Ducks first appeared in 2001 in Europe, later debuting in the United States on Cartoon Network, in Australia on ABC3 and Nickelodeon, in Canada on CBC Television, in the United Kingdom on CITV and Boomerang, and on the Japanese version of Cartoon Network. The show lasted for two seasons each comprising thirteen episodes, with the last episode shown on July 5, 2003.