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Rubbadubbers
''Rubbadubbers'' is a 2003 British stop-motion children's television series produced by HIT Entertainment and Hot Animation. The series aired from 15 January 2003 to 3 November 2005 on BBC2 in the UK. Created by Peter Curtis, it features seven friendly tub toys who come to life and tell stories, led by a pink frog named Tubb. Hasbro licensed it to produce a toy line for the series. In the US, the series was broadcast on Nickelodeon, on Noggin and on PBS Kids Sprout. The series was originally announced under the working title "Plugg," which was an early name for the character of Tubb. BBC started commissioning the show in 2002 after two pilots were made: "Plugg" from 1999 and "Splish Splash Splosh!" from 2001. Overview Seven anthropomorphic, friendly British bath toys called the Rubbadubbers live a peaceful life in the bathroom of a house in the fictional Bathsville City. The toys belong to two children who live at the house named Benjie and Sis (however, they are never ever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubbadubbers Characters
''Rubbadubbers'' is a 2003 British stop-motion children's television series produced by HIT Entertainment and Hot Animation. The series aired from 15 January 2003 to 3 November 2005 on BBC2 in the UK. Created by Peter Curtis, it features seven friendly tub toys who come to life and tell stories, led by a pink frog named Tubb. Hasbro licensed it to produce a toy line for the series. In the US, the series was broadcast on Nickelodeon, on Noggin and on PBS Kids Sprout. The series was originally announced under the working title "Plugg," which was an early name for the character of Tubb. BBC started commissioning the show in 2002 after two pilots were made: "Plugg" from 1999 and "Splish Splash Splosh!" from 2001. Overview Seven anthropomorphic, friendly British bath toys called the Rubbadubbers live a peaceful life in the bathroom of a house in the fictional Bathsville City. The toys belong to two children who live at the house named Benjie and Sis (however, they are never ever s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jocelyn Stevenson
Jocelyn Stevenson is a British-American writer and producer, largely for children's shows. She has received the BAFTA Special Award. Screenwriting credits Television * ''Fraggle Rock'' (1983-1987) * ''Sesame Street'' (1987-1989) * ''Charlie Chalk'' (1988-1989) * ''The Ghost of Faffner Hall'' (1989) * ''Captain Zed and the Zee Zone'' (1991, 1993) * ''Funnybones'' (1992) * '' The Legend of Lochnagar'' (1993) * ''Secret Life of Toys'' (1994) * '' Jim Henson’s Animal Show'' (1994-1997) * ''The Magic School Bus'' (1994-1997) * '' Big Bag'' (1996) * '' The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge'' (1997-1998) * '' Mopatop’s Shop'' (1999-2005) * ''Construction Site'' (2002) * ''Cyberchase'' (2002) * ''Barney & Friends'' (2002-2006) * ''Rubbadubbers'' (2003) * '' What’s Your News?'' (2006-2008) * ''The Magic School Bus Rides Again'' (2017) * '' Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock'' (2022) Film * ''The Tale of the Bunny Picnic'' (1986) * ''Silent Mouse'' (1988) * ''Faeries A fairy (also fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gordon Sinclair
John Gordon Sinclair (born Gordon John Sinclair; 4 February 1962) is a Scottish actor, voice actor, singer, and novelist. He is best known for portraying Gregory in the 1981 film '' Gregory's Girl''. There was a Gordon Sinclair already registered with Equity, so he took John Gordon Sinclair as his professional name. In 2019, Sinclair played Drew Cubbin in the BBC drama '' Traces''. Life and career Sinclair was born on 4 February 1962 in Glasgow and started work as an apprentice electrician. At 15 he joined Glasgow's Youth Theatre after he visited one night and met Robert Buchanan, a fellow fan of Canadian progressive rock group Rush. As a result, he starred in a number of films by director Bill Forsyth, perhaps the most notable of which is 1981's '' Gregory's Girl'', shot when he was 19 years old. He reprised the role nearly two decades later in '' Gregory's Two Girls'' (1999), and also appeared in Forsyth's '' Local Hero'' (1983). His other film roles included appearances i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Hughes (comedian)
Sean Hughes (10 November 1965 – 16 October 2017) was a British-born Irish comedian, writer and actor. He starred in his own Channel 4 television show '' Sean's Show'' and was one of the regular team captains on the BBC Two musical panel game '' Never Mind the Buzzcocks''. Early life Hughes was born the middle boy in a family of three boys in Whittington Hospital in North London. He had an older brother Alan and a younger brother Martin. He was born in Archway, London, but spent most of his youth in Firhouse, Dublin. His mother was from Cork, while his father was from Dublin; they first met on a London bus. His father worked in a telephone exchange and was also a driving instructor. At the age of six, Hughes moved to Dublin and lived with his paternal grandmother. He attended Coláiste Éanna in Ballyroan. Writing in ''The Guardian'', Bruce Dessau observed of Hughes's early years: eused to talk about how sounding like a Cockney in an Irish school was not easy. He later qui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Darling
Maria Darling is a British voice actress who has provided many character voices for children's television programmes in the United Kingdom and the United States. Television and film * Dr Otter - Some of the Rabbit Children, Mrs. Canny Body and additional voices *Fifi and the Flowertots - Violet, Pip, Poppy and Webby * The Magic Key - Chip, additional voices *Rubbadubbers - Amelia, Sploshy and Winona *Boj - Bibi * Driver Dan's Story Train - Selected female characters *Roary the Racing Car - Roary, Marsha, Cici, Breeze and Mamma Mia *Franny's Feet - Franny (UK dub) *Bob the Builder - Dizzy, Roley, Trix (US version) * Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends - Miss Spider, Dragon, Snowdrop, Pansy, Shimmer, Betty, Eunice (UK dub) *The Backyardigans - Tyrone, Tasha (Series 1-2) (UK dub) * Pitt and Kantrop - Pitt *Watership Down - Pipkin, Hannah, Clover, Additional voices (Series 3 only) *Boblins - Pinny, Gully and Onny *Odd Jobbers - Mia and Menic the goat *The Mole Sisters - All character v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Cockle
Jackie Cockle (born 1950) is a British stop motion animation specialist, best known as the co-founder of the HOT Animation studio, which specializes in stop motion animation. She is the creator and creative producer of the pre-school animation Timmy Time, creative producer of Bob the Builder and Brambly Hedge, director of The Wind in the Willows and more. Cockle, a graduate of the Manchester College of Art and Design, has won 3 BAFTA awards: one in the best animation category for Bob the Builder 30 minute special (2002), and two in the pre-school animation for Timmy Time (2010, 2013) - a production of the Bristol-based Aardman Animations.http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=Pre-School%20Animation&f string_category%3APre-School%20Animation Career history Jackie Cockle has participated in many stop frame productions during her 40-year-long career. In 1976, she became a part of Cosgrove Hall Films, where she produced and directed many shows for over 20 years, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HIT Entertainment
HIT Entertainment Limited (commonly written as HiT) was a British-American entertainment company founded in 1982 as Henson International Television, the international distribution arm of The Jim Henson Company, by Jim Henson, Peter Orton, and Sophie Turner Laing. Orton alone took over the company in 1989 upon learning Henson's intent to sell the company to The Walt Disney Company. HIT owned and distributed children's television series such as ''Thomas & Friends'', '' Fireman Sam'', '' Bob the Builder'', '' Pingu'', '' Barney & Friends'', and '' Angelina Ballerina''. HIT Entertainment was one of several partner companies, alongside NBCUniversal, PBS, and Sesame Workshop, that founded PBS Kids Sprout, with many of HIT's shows airing on the channel as a result at the time. On 1 February 2012, HIT Entertainment was acquired by Mattel, as Mattel was initially only interested in the ''Thomas & Friends'' brand in its acquisition, according to ''Deadline Hollywood''. Mattel absorbed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Television Series
Children's television series (or children's television shows) are television show, television programs designed for children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run during the early evening, allowing younger children to watch them after school. The purpose of these shows is mainly to entertain or educate. The children's series are in four categories: those aimed at infants and toddlers, those aimed at those aged 6 to 11 years old, those for adolescents and those aimed at all children. History Children's television is nearly as old as television itself. The BBC's ''Children's Hour'', broadcast in the UK in 1946, is generally credited with being the first TV programme specifically for children. Television for children tended to originate from similar programs on radio; the BBC's ''Children's Hour'' was launched in 1922, and BBC School Radio began broadcasting in 1924. In the US in the early 1930s, adventure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green
Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combination of yellow and cyan; in the RGB color model, used on television and computer screens, it is one of the additive primary colors, along with red and blue, which are mixed in different combinations to create all other colors. By far the largest contributor to green in nature is chlorophyll, the chemical by which plants photosynthesize and convert sunlight into chemical energy. Many creatures have adapted to their green environments by taking on a green hue themselves as camouflage. Several minerals have a green color, including the emerald, which is colored green by its chromium content. During post-classical and early modern Europe, green was the color commonly associated with wealth, merchants, bankers, and the gentry, while red ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leader
Leadership, both as a research area and as a practical skill, encompasses the ability of an individual, group or organization to "lead", influence or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations. The word "leadership" often gets viewed as a contested term. Specialist literature debates various viewpoints on the concept, sometimes contrasting Eastern and Western approaches to leadership, and also (within the West) North American versus European approaches. U.S. academic environments define leadership as "a process of social influence in which a person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common and ethical task". Basically, leadership can be defined as an influential power-relationship in which the power of one party (the "leader") promotes movement/change in others (the "followers"). Some have challenged the more traditional managerial views of leadership (which portray leadership as something possessed or owned by one individual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cotton Bud
Cotton is a soft, fluffy Staple (textiles), staple fiber that grows in a wikt:boll, boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus ''Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor percentages of waxes, fats, pectins, and water. Under natural conditions, the cotton bolls will increase the dispersal of the seeds. The plant is a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, Africa, Egypt and India. The greatest diversity of wild cotton species is found in Mexico, followed by Australia and Africa. Cotton was independently domesticated in the Old and New Worlds. The fiber is most often Spinning (textiles), spun into yarn or thread and used to make a soft, breathable, and durable textile. The use of cotton for fabric is known to date to prehistoric times; fragments of cotton fabric dated to the fifth millennium BC have been found in the Indus Valley civ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crocodile
Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae), the gharial and false gharial (family Gavialidae) among other extinct taxa. Although they appear similar, crocodiles, alligators and the gharial belong to separate biological families. The gharial, with its narrow snout, is easier to distinguish, while morphological differences are more difficult to spot in crocodiles and alligators. The most obvious external differences are visible in the head, with crocodiles having narrower and longer heads, with a more V-shaped than a U-shaped snout compared to alligators and caimans. Another obvious trait is that the upper and lower jaws of the crocodiles are the same width, and the teeth in the lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
