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Alan MacDonald (writer)
Alan MacDonald (born in 1958 in Watford) is a children's writer living in Nottingham, England. Writing Alan MacDonald has worked in a team of writers on TV shows such as ''Tweenies'', ''Horrid Henry'' and ''Fimbles''. He is also the author of a number of books including ‘Triffic Chocolate’, the popular ''Dirty Bertie'' series with illustrator David Roberts, other works include ''The Sign of the Angel'', ''Beware of the Bears'' and ''Pig in a Wig''. He also wrote Gavin Peacock's biography, and many plays in his earlier career. Television *''Tweenies'' *''Fimbles'' *''Horrid Henry'' *''Old MacDonalds Farm'' *''The Shiny Show'' *''Numberjacks'' *''Sooty'' *''The Roly Mo Show'' *''Ni Ni's Treehouse'' *''A House That’s Just Like Yours'' *'' Big Cook Little Cook'' * ''Boo!'' *''Fun Song Factory'' *''BB3B ''BB3B '' was an animated UK children's television series produced by Tell-Tale Productions in 2005. The entire series consists of thirteen episodes of twenty minutes ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watford, England
Watford () is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, 15 miles northwest of Central London, on the River Colne. Initially a small market town, the Grand Junction Canal encouraged the construction of paper-making mills, print works, and breweries. While industry has declined in Watford, its location near London and transport links has attracted several companies to site their headquarters in the town. Cassiobury Park is a public park that was once the manor estate of the Earls of Essex. The town developed next to the River Colne on land belonging to St Albans Abbey. In the 12th century, a charter was granted allowing a market, and the building of St Mary's Church began. The town grew partly due to travellers going to Berkhamsted Castle and the royal palace at Kings Langley. A mansion was built at Cassiobury in the 16th century. This was partly rebuilt in the 17th century and another country house was built at The Grove. The Grand Junction Canal in 1798 and the Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Roly Mo Show
''The Roly Mo Show'' is a British children's television series featuring a cast of puppets; it is a spin-off of ''Fimbles'', similarly to how the series parodied Sesame Street, Rainbow and Ni Ni's Treehouse and was created by Novel Entertainment. The series consists of 104 episodes, each of 10 minutes in length. It was broadcast on CBeebies. In addition, there are 20 storytimes and 10 Christmas storytimes. The series was broadcast between 13 June 2005 and 10 January 2006. Roly Mo was a regular storyteller character in the better known ''Fimbles'' show, and ''The Roly Mo Show'' draws heavily on this. The show is noted for its particularly gentle and pleasant characters and plots. A show called ''Christmas Storytime'' aired on the CBeebies channel in December 2005. In the Irish republic, ''The Roly Mo Show'' was broadcast on Network 2 (later changed to RTÉ2 in 2004) as part of a lineup of programmes for younger children called ''The Den''. Format Each episode follows a gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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BB3B
''BB3B '' was an animated UK children's television series produced by Tell-Tale Productions in 2005. The entire series consists of thirteen episodes of twenty minutes each. It is shown on CBBC in the UK and ABC Kids in Australia. It first went on air in 2005. It was created by Iain Lauchlan and Will Brenton, who also created and produced ''Tweenies'', '' Boo!'', ''Fun Song Factory'' and ''Jim Jam and Sunny''. Plot The series centres on the life of twin children, a brother and sister, Lucy and Louie, and their fears about their new baby brother, Billy Bob. BB3B actually stands for Billy Bob 3rd Baby. The plot generally involves a circumstance where the twins suspect the brother as usual of being an extraterrestrial, and they go on a wild adventure trying to prove it and stop him from launching an invasion. The twins are babysat by Chubba, a teenage boy with a fondness for pizza. Chubba often goes along with the idea of an alien brother, sometimes very seriously, and at one poin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fun Song Factory
Fun Song Factory is a British preschool children's television series. It was originally created in 1994 by Will Brenton and Iain Lauchlan, who at the time, were part of the ''Playdays'' production team. The series was produced through their studio Tell-Tale Productions, and was originally released as a Direct-to-video series through Abbey Home Entertainment (and later PolyGram Video)'s "Tempo-Pre-School" imprint. Format The series centers around a factory where music is created. In it, live presenters alongside children come inside and sing a number of nursery rhymes, which depend on per episode. Original production The first production was a show made exclusively for release on VHS, filmed at the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon, presented by Iain Lauchlan, Sarah Davison and Dave Benson Phillips. The video was a commercial success and led to a second being filmed at Chicken Shed in North London, this time presented by Iain, Dave and Michelle Durler. Following the success of the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boo! (TV Series)
''Boo!'' is a British children's television series that was broadcast in the United Kingdom on the CBeebies channel, and originally on BBC Two. It features several cartoon characters who play a game similar to hide and seek in a variety of settings. The commentary is performed by an adult male and female narrators and a chorus of children. It was produced by the independent production company Tell-Tale Productions, which was also responsible for ''Tweenies''. From 2007 to 2012, reruns of the show were broadcast in the USA on Qubo. The series aired for a total of 104 episodes and one Christmas special was nominated for a BAFTA in 2002–03. At the end of the programme, a song is sung, usually about matching characters or objects to their shapes or colours. The visual style of ''Boo!'' is very distinctive, using 3D CGI with rounded shapes and cel-shading. The music and songs are generally in an early-70s funk/R&B idiom. Characters * Boo - a pear/eggplant-shaped patchwork creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Cook Little Cook
''Big Cook, Little Cook'' is a British children's television series created by Adrian Hedley for BBC television. The programme is set in the kitchen of a café, with two chef characters; Big Cook Ben/Jen and Little Cook Small. CBeebies aired repeats on the channel until 2012. Ben/Jen are both full sized adult/s, but Small is only a few inches tall and flies around on a wooden spoon. Ben and the original Small were played by Steve Marsh and Dan Wright, respectively. An official magazine was launched in August 2005. The show made a comeback with a revival series in 2022, now presented by Ibinabo Jack as Big Cook Jen and Courtney Bowman as Little Cook Small. Format The format of the programme generally includes a visit to the café by a nursery rhyme, fairy tale, or fictional character (such as Little Miss Muffet or Humpty Dumpty). Each episode would begin with Big Cook Ben and Little Cook Small doing an activity or encountering a problem, and then a customer would arrive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ni Ni's Treehouse
''Ni Ni's Treehouse'' is a preschool television series and was produced jointly by The Itsy Bitsy Entertainment Company and GMTV. It was originally aired on TLC and GMTV from 2000 until 2003. About the show Ni Ni works in a treehouse on an Oooberry tree in an Oooberry forest in Oooberryland. Characters * Ni Ni - A yellow dog with an active imagination. * Treezles - Two green squirrels whose names are Bee with a red nose and Dee with a pink nose. * Norman and the Fingerlings - Norman is a yellow character with colored shapes and multicolored hair and the Fingerlings - Fip, Fap and Feppy are small red characters with fingers for arms. Fip is the only girl and the eldest one, Fap has yellow glasses and is the middle one, and Feppy is the youngest one. * Oupagogo - A green creature with yellow spots and blue hair with a simple vocabulary who lives in a yellow house. * Horace the Hippo - A pink hippo who lives in a cottage in a jungle with his friends like Ant, Henry the Elephant, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sooty
Sooty is a British children's television media franchise created by Harry Corbett incorporating primarily television and stage shows. The franchise originated with his fictional glove puppet character introduced to television in 1955, with the franchises focused around the adventures of the character – a mute yellow bear with black ears and nose, who is kind-hearted but also cheeky, performs magic tricks and practical jokes, and squirts his handler and other people with his water pistol, including on other television programmes he guest stars on. The franchise itself also includes several other puppet characters who were created for television, some of whom became the backbone to performances, and features additional elements including an animated series, two spin-off series for the direct-to-video market, and a selection of toy merchandising. The franchise remained in the ownership of Corbett until his retirement in 1976, before being passed on to his son Matthew. The rights ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watford
Watford () is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, 15 miles northwest of Central London, on the River Colne. Initially a small market town, the Grand Junction Canal encouraged the construction of paper-making mills, print works, and breweries. While industry has declined in Watford, its location near London and transport links has attracted several companies to site their headquarters in the town. Cassiobury Park is a public park that was once the manor estate of the Earls of Essex. The town developed next to the River Colne on land belonging to St Albans Abbey. In the 12th century, a charter was granted allowing a market, and the building of St Mary's Church began. The town grew partly due to travellers going to Berkhamsted Castle and the royal palace at Kings Langley. A mansion was built at Cassiobury in the 16th century. This was partly rebuilt in the 17th century and another country house was built at The Grove. The Grand Junction Canal in 1798 and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Numberjacks
''Numberjacks'' is a British 3D animated children's television series, aimed particularly at children aged two to five, shown regularly on CBeebies and occasionally on BBC Two in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It was also formerly shown on Tiny Pop until the year 2018. It is produced by Open Mind Productions for the BBC and features a mixture of computer-generated animation and live action. 67 episodes were produced. The show focuses on mathematics. Premise ''Numberjacks'' are a group of anthropomorphic numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Only four of them team up on a mission: Turqouise Five (a female who likes being a numberjack), Yellow Six (who is good with some tricks and jumps), Dark Blue Four (who is a smart one but not quite sure) and Pink Three (a younger one who is cheeky and funny). They go about their everyday lives inside their sofa until a call comes in from real-life child Agents, who report problems that need solving. One or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shiny Show
''The Shiny Show'' is a British educational children's quiz show, broadcast in the United Kingdom by CBeebies, BBC One and BBC Two, that was produced by Open Mind Productions. It was aired in 2002 and 2003, and was aimed particularly at children between the ages of 3 and 6 years old. Each show featured a quiz with six questions, based around different subjects, and featured four star characters: Tigs the Tiger, Mukka the Monkey, Dogsby the Dog and Alarmorama the machine. Characters Tigs Tigs is an orange tiger, who is often portrayed as confident and big-headed. She is still extremely lively and always gets the starring role in the short plays or poems the group act out in between rounds. She has a lucky object called Mr. Cheese, a plastic lump of cheese that squeaks whenever it is squeezed. Voiced by Sue Monroe. Mukka Mukka is an extremely hyperactive purple monkey. He has a lucky object called Fluffy Stuff and a pet lump called Lumpy. Voiced by Wim Booth. Dogsby Dogsby is a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
