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''The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers'' is a 2D
Flash animated television series created by Dan Chambers, Mark Huckerby, and Nick Ostler. It was commissioned by
CITV
CITV (short for Children's ITV, also known as the CITV Channel) is a British free-to-air children's television channel owned by ITV plc. It broadcasts content from the CITV archive and acquisitions, every day from 6 am to 9 pm which ...
and
Cartoon Network in the UK,
S4C in
Wales
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,
YTV and
VRAK.TV
Vrak (stylized as VRΔK) is a Canadian French language specialty channel owned by Bell Media. The channel primarily broadcasts live-action programming aimed at youth audiences.
History Background
The youth channel TVJQ () went on the air in ...
in Canada and is a co-production between UK studio Pesky and
Studio B Productions in
Vancouver
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,
British Columbia
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. 26 episodes were produced.
The show aired on
YTV in Canada, and
Cartoon Network in the United States as part of ''Sunday Pants''. In the United Kingdom, the series aired on
CITV
CITV (short for Children's ITV, also known as the CITV Channel) is a British free-to-air children's television channel owned by ITV plc. It broadcasts content from the CITV archive and acquisitions, every day from 6 am to 9 pm which ...
and for a short while on
Cartoon Network in 2007. Reruns were later shown on
Boomerang
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from 2009 to 2011 and
Pop from 2012 to 2015.
The show's directors Claire Underwood and
Dan Chambers
''The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers'' is a 2D Flash animated television series created by Dan Chambers, Mark Huckerby, and Nick Ostler. It was commissioned by CITV and Cartoon Network in the UK, S4C in Wales, YTV and VRAK.TV in Canada and is a ...
and producer David Hodgson picked up a Best Animation
BAFTA for the series in 2006.
Overview
Three travelling showmen hailing from the mysterious land of Réndøosîa (a fictional
Eastern European
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country
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that experiences an unusually high rate of natural disasters to the point that its flag is always depicted with a hole in it, as well as being at war with the neighboring nation of Grimzimistan), the three Adrenalini brothers (Xan, Enk and Adi), tour around the world staging ridiculously hazardous stunts, usually succeeding (but more out of luck than skill). In their travels, the Adrenalinis have visited many real countries and places in the world, and even many periods in history (and, in some cases, fiction).
History
The series had its origins as a British student revue act in the 1990s, written and performed by The Pox, aka Dan Chambers, Mark Huckerby and Nick Ostler. With ambitions to turn their live act into animation the trio presented their ideas to Pesky, who had just been approached by the
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to develop a new
Flash animation
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series for the relaunch of its
CBBC
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website.
The original 10 two-and-a-half-minute 'shorts' were shown online, then on CBBC television in 2002 and the episode "Ocean of Terror" was awarded the Prix des Internautes at the
Annecy International Animated Film Festival
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that summer, and went on in 2003 to win a People's Choice Award at
Anima Mundi in Brazil.
By 2004 plans were hatched to create a longer-running television series based on the Adrenalini Brothers. And in 2005 the series of 78 seven-minute episodes went into production as a UK-Canadian co-production, with pre- and post-production by Pesky in their London studio, animation by Studio B in Vancouver, and scripting shared between writers on both sides of the Atlantic. The series first aired as part of ''Sunday Pants'' on
Cartoon Network in the United States on 2 October 2005, and then it first aired as a full series in March 2006 on
CITV
CITV (short for Children's ITV, also known as the CITV Channel) is a British free-to-air children's television channel owned by ITV plc. It broadcasts content from the CITV archive and acquisitions, every day from 6 am to 9 pm which ...
in the UK, then
YTV on 7 May 2006 (and later also
VRAK.TV
Vrak (stylized as VRΔK) is a Canadian French language specialty channel owned by Bell Media. The channel primarily broadcasts live-action programming aimed at youth audiences.
History Background
The youth channel TVJQ () went on the air in ...
in Canada) followed by
Cartoon Network across Europe and Asia. The series has enjoyed particular success in Australia where it was first aired by
ABC Australia on 2 March 2006 in a regular early evening slot until 2010.
In 2006 the series began the year by picking up a Pulcinella Award at the Cartoons On The Bay festival in Italy and ended the year with the episode "Hunchback of Heartbreak" winning a
BAFTA for Best Animation Series.
Broadcast
DVD releases
The series first came out in Australia, in two separate volumes.
In the UK, Studiocanal released a 3-disc set on 9 April 2012, containing all 78 episodes from the TV series (1 & 2); in this release, two episodes, "Tails of Longing!" and "Dragon of Antagonism!" were edited to remove scenes that would have been considered imitable behaviour easily copied by children (specifically, Xan and Adi attempting to use a washing machine as a submersible in the former, and a glasses-less Xan catching a still-live firework before throwing it down in a panic after recognising it in the latter), these scenes are retained on the HuHa YouTube channel. The original online episodes are not included. There are currently no DVDs for
Region 1.
YouTube
The original web episodes were uploaded on the official Adrenalini channel on YouTube, while an episode from the TV series would be uploaded on Mondays. From its launch in November 2012, the television series moved to an
adult animation
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YouTube channel called "Huha",
with an episode being uploaded every Friday until Huha ceased uploading in early 2014. A French and German version of the channel also includes episodes from the series.
References
External links
Official ''Amazing Adrenalini Brothers'' websiteThe Amazing Adrenalini Brotherson HuHa (via
YouTube
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)
The Amazing Adrenalini Brotherson HuHa (In French)
The Amazing Adrenalini Brotherson HuHa (In German)
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