A second season was released on October 1, 2019. The first season was released on Januon Netflix. The series sees many characters drawn from the franchise's 35-year history: Carmen Sandiego herself who debuted in the original World video game The Chief who took her current form in the World game show Player, Zack, and Ivy who were featured in the Earth animated series, Chase Devineaux who debuted in Word Detective, and Julia Argent who was featured in Treasures of Knowledge. Serving as an origin story for the fictional thieving villain of the same name, it is the fourth Carmen Sandiego television show after the PBS game shows Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? and Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?, and the Fox animated series Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? it is also the first Carmen Sandiego related show since the end of Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego in 1999.
The series is produced by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt with WildBrain serving as the production company, and contains a 'serialized look at Carmen's backstory that is told from her perspective'. Carmen Sandiego is a Canadian-American animated action-adventure streaming television series with educational elements, based on the media franchise of the same name created by Broderbund.
