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Frankenstein's Cat
''Frankenstein's Cat'' is a 2001 children's picture book written and illustrated by Curtis Jobling. The story follows the exploits of Doctor Frankenstein's first experiment. The cat is created by the Doctor out of nine different cats, leading to his name being Nine. He has no friends and feels lonely, which leads up to him asking the Doctor to create him a friend. Nine learns to be "careful what you wish for", as the Doctor creates a companion that is more than Nine can handle. The picture book was republished by Hodder. Characters The main characters are Nine, Lottie, Dr Franken, Fifi, Heidi, Igora, Pipsquawk, Trevor, Sweeny, Bigtop, Mr Crumble and Gutner Van Halen. Nine Nine is Dr Frankenstein's first creation: a creature stitched together out of nine different cats (his name is also a pun on the myth that cats have nine lives). Unfortunately for the Doctor, Nine isn't very menacing, although many might consider his smell to be quite frightening. Like all cats, he is n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtis Jobling
Curtis Jobling (born 14 February 1972) is a British author, born in Blackpool, England but lives in Warrington. Jobling was the production designer of the stop-motion episodes of the children's TV hit ''Bob the Builder'', where he visualised all of that programme's characters, props and sets. He is also an author and illustrator of children's books, including '' Frankenstein's Cat'', a tale about a muddled-up feline. The book was adapted into an animated series, the first of which was aired on CBBC and BBC One in the UK. Jobling's pre-school show '' Raa Raa the Noisy Lion'', about a noisy lion cub and his friends, was produced by Chapman Entertainment and McKinnon and Saunders, and first aired on the BBC's CBeebies channel in Spring 2011. Narrated by Lorraine Kelly, the show aimed to support pre-school language development through "reading rhyming and repetition". In 2010, Jobling signed a two-book deal with Puffin for his young adult series of fantasy horror entitled ''Werewo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RaiSat
RaiSat was a subsidiary of RAI created in 1997 to produce thematic TV channels for satellite television that are now available in IPTV and digital terrestrial television with various providers. History Rai Sat was created as external company in 1997 to create the first satellite channels of public service. In July 1999, with the transfer from Rai's staff that was employed towards thematic channels, the company began to produce the first pay satellite platform networks for Tele+, then reorganized under Sky. In 2009, following the non-renewal of the contract with Sky (Platform for which RaiSat produced exclusively its channels) it was announced that the parent company was preparing to fold RaiSat. Until 18 March 2010, the shareholders of RaiSat were Rai (with 95% shares) and RCS MediaGroup (with 5% shares), On that date, the proportion of shares owned by RCS (equivalent to three million €) was liquidated. On 18 May 2010, RaiSat was folded into Rai. Television channels Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Works Based On Frankenstein
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2001 Children's Books
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British Picture Books
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BBC Children's Television Shows
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public broadcasting, public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927. The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature and by number of employees, the BBC employs over 21,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 17,200 are in public-sector broadcasting. The BBC was established under a Royal charter#United Kingdom, royal charter, and operates under an agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual Television licensing in the United Kingdom, television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts or to use the BBC's streaming service, BBC iPlayer, iPla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nickelodeon (Malaysian TV Channel)
Nickelodeon is a Malaysian television channel owned by Astro. It launched on November 1, 1999. Nickelodeon is available on Astro Channel 616. English is a primary audio of the channel with dubbing in Malay on the secondary audio channel. In 2008, a third audio channel Mandarin was added. However, the Malay and Mandarin audio channels are only available on selected programming blocks. It attempted to access them on blocks where they are not transmitted yields the English primary audio channel. History Starting from 2006, much of Nickelodeon's programming was available on free-to-air channel 8TV and TV9 with content dubbed into Malay as part of its Nick di 9 Nickelodeon block, which aired from 03:00 pm to 06:00 pm. However, ''CJ WOW Shop'' took over time on that slot, it moved to 08:30 am to 10:00 am every Monday to Thursday from 4 April 2016 to 1 March 2018 and later reduced to every day at 07:00 pm for showing selected program on 5 March 2018. More popular programs are also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
E-Junior
e-junior is the first UAE children TV channel created by e-Vision which is part of Etisalat, the largest telecom operator in the Middle East. "e-junior" was launched in the year 2001, it targets kids up to 14 years old. the channel content is a mix of educational, fun, adventurous and fantasy programmes. "e-junior" is available on eLifeTV the IPTV service from Etisalat in the UAE, and eLife channel number 333. History e-junior was launched on 15 January 2001 at 12:00 pm. The channel's launch coinciding with Humaid Rashid Sahoo cutting a cake during a children's carnival at the Magic Planet Golf Course at Deira City Centre. New look On 15 January 2009, e-junior got a new logo and branding to coincide with its 8th anniversary. It now has four mascots: Red, Blue, Orange, and Green each representing programming content type throughout the day. Red is for movies, Blue is for preschool shows, Orange is for live-action shows and Green is for animation shows. See also *Etisalat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nickelodeon (Australia And New Zealand)
Nick or Nickelodeon is an Australian and New Zealand children's pay television channel owned by Paramount Networks UK & Australia. It is based on the namesake American television channel. Since 1 December 2010 the Australian and New Zealand versions of the subscription channel have been the same. The New Zealand-specific version of Nickelodeon ceased broadcasting the day before. The channel ceased broadcasting on Foxtel on 1 August 2023 as a result of free-to-air channel 10 Shake rebranding as "Nickelodeon". The existing pay television channel continues to broadcast through Fetch in Australia, and on Sky in New Zealand. The Fetch feed was renamed "Nick", to differentiate it from the free-to-air channel. History Nickelodeon Australia was launched on 23 October 1995, replacing the Max and ClassicMax channels, offering live action shows and cartoons. Originally the channel timeshared with Nick at Nite which began at 8 on weekdays and 10 pm on weekends, and ended at 6&nb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
True Spark
True Spark () is a 24-hour television channel for children provided by TrueVisions. It broadcast cartoons A cartoon is a type of visual art that is typically drawn, frequently Animation, animated, in an realism (arts), unrealistic or semi-realistic style. The specific meaning has evolved, but the modern usage usually refers to either: an image or s ... that come from Japan, United States and Europe. It broadcasts on channel 444 (digital) and channel 28 (analogue). History ''True Spark'' has been broadcast since TrueVisions was IBC. In that time, it was named IBC Cartoons (). It was broadcast on IBC Channel 7. After a few years, IBC Cartoons was renamed IBC Kids (). It was used to broadcast for 24 hours and presents new episodes of cartoons between 6:00pm to 8:30pm. After a few years, its broadcast duration was reduced to 5:00am to 8:00pm and presents new episodes of cartoons between 6:00pm to 8:00pm. Then, in July 1998, IBC combined its business with UTV, then renamed IBC t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nickelodeon (Latin American TV Channel)
Nickelodeon is a Hispanic/Latin American pay television channel, counterpart of the American network of the same name. It is owned by Paramount Networks Americas and was launched on 20 December 1996. Aside from airing Nick and Nick Jr. content, it has produced original programming for the channel and has been sold to local distributors worldwide except for Cuba as cable television is banned in that country. History The channel was launched on 20 December 1996 in Latin America as a children-oriented channel, being the main competitor of Cartoon Network, which was launched three years before. In 1999, Nickelodeon launched its official website for the region, MundoNick.com. "Nick Radio" was also available, but eventually it was replaced by the Nick Jr. official site. On 13 February 2006, a programming block named Nick at Nite was launched. It consisted mostly of live-action shows from the 80s and 90s, and aired from 10 pm to 6 am. On May 15 of the same year, it premiered the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
