The series was planned to air on the TV channel The Hub in the United States, but didn't make it due to controversy.
[4] In November 2006 a Bahrain investment bank approved $25 million to help finance Teshkeel Media Group and pay to launch an animated series for television.
[1] Director Osborne, with more than 20 years of animation experience and having worked at Cosgrove Hall, called The 99 the most technically complex project he had ever been involved in.
[1] Creator Naif Al-Mutawa and his work on the comic books and the TV series were the subjects of the 60 minutes long PBS documentary Wham!
by Isaac Solotaroff broadcast in October 2011 as the season premiere of PBS's series "Independent Lens".
The first few episodes were released as a feature film, The 99 Unbound in 2011, telling the origins of the core group and how they come to terms with their powers.