Lifeboat Luke is an animated 52x5 min TV action adventure series set in the magical town of Donaghadoo.
Directed and designed by Alastair McIlwain, produced by Richard Morss and Darryl Collins (first 13 episodes), the series has aired in Ireland on
RTÉ Two
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, Northern Ireland Screen, 28 August 2008 and in over twenty territories worldwide.
The search and rescue series for 4-7 year olds
[Monster Sails Away with Lifeboat Luke](_blank)
by Ramin Zahed, Animation Magazine, 11 June 2007 is fast, fun, full of visual jokes and eccentric characters with strong sea safety messages for children running through the episodes.
Lifeboat Luke is the first 52 part animation series to be originated and produced in
Northern Ireland
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and has been financed through a combination of private investment an
Northern Ireland ScreenLottery Production Fund
by Victoria O'Hara, Belfast Telegraph, 15 March 2007 including the
Irish Film Board Not to be confused with Northern Ireland Screen.
FÃs Éireann / Screen Ireland, formerly known as Bord Scannán na hÉireann or the Irish Film Board, is Republic of Ireland, Ireland's state development agency for the Irish film, television an ...
, th
Broadcast Commission Ireland Sound & Vision[RTE Sails With Lifeboat Luke](_blank)
by Ryan Ball, Animation Magazine, 6 Oct 2006. Northern Ireland Screen Commission, Banjax Studios (first 13 episodes), and
RTÉ
(; ; RTÉThe É in RTÉ is pronounced as an English E () and not an Irish É ()) is an Irish public service broadcaster. It both produces and broadcasts programmes on television, radio and online. The radio service began on 1 January 1926, ...
.
[‘Lifeboat Luke’ Drops Anchor at RNLI](_blank)
Irish Film and Television Network, 20 Feb 2008 The series was a co-production with Kavaleer in Dublin.
Luke the Lifeboat Ltd, producers of the series, are working in an exclusive partnership with the
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest of the lifeboat (rescue), lifeboat services operating around the coasts of the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, as well as on s ...
.
The first 13 episodes were produced at Banjax Studios based in
Belfast
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with
LTL Production, based in
Holywood
Holy Wood or Holywood may refer to:
Places
* Holywood, County Down, a town and townland in Northern Ireland
** Holywood, County Down (civil parish), a civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland
** Holywood railway station (Northern Ireland)
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, Northern Ireland, producing the remaining 39 episodes and delivering the entire 52 episode series. The licensing and commercialisation of the property is now being carried out b
Straandlooper Animation
References
Irish children's animated action television series
Irish children's animated adventure television series
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