''Walter and Tandoori'', also known as ''Walter'' or ''Walter's World'', is an animated children's series produced by
Image Entertainment Corporation. The series centres on Walter, an inventor and fix-it specialist, and his friend Tandoori, a hyperactive chicken, who live together in the village of Trois-Montagnes (in the French version) or Hart's Landing (in the English version), and embark on various adventures designed to teach children about the
environment and
ecology.
Production
Created by Sylvain Viau for
Image Entertainment Corporation, the series first aired on
TV5 Québec Canada under the ''Walter'' title in 2005.
["Quand l'image vaut mille mots"]
''Sommets'' (Université de Sherbrooke
The Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS; Quebec English, English: ''University of Sherbrooke'') is a French-language Public university, public research university in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, with a second campus in Longueuil, a suburb on the Mont ...
), Fall 2004. It had its roots in ''Mr. Ecolo'', a live-action short film which Viau produced for the
National Film Board in 1997.
[
The series has since aired on a number of other broadcast networks, including Ici Radio-Canada Télé,]["Going Cross-media with an Environmental Project in Harmony"]
Toon Boom. The series won a Prix Gémeaux for Best Animated Program or Series in 2011.
''Walter 100%'', a "hybrid" series of 26 half-hour episodes which mixed animation with live-action, was also later created.
''Walter & Tandoori's Christmas''
In 2011, a Christmas-themed film, ''Walter & Tandoori's Christmas'', was also released. The film was released in separate French and English versions, with a French voice cast that included Benoît Brière, Michel Courtemanche, Bianca Gervais, Rick Jones and Benoit Rousseaux, and an English voice cast that included Sonja Ball, Rick Jones, Russell Peters and Philip le Maistre.
The film also received a limited theatrical release outside of Canada, including a screening at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur in September 2012,"La sélection québécoise au Festival du film francophone de Namur"
''Films du Québec'', September 27, 2012. and a brief run in
Los Angeles
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in December of that year
["Review: 'Walter & Tandoori's Christmas' a warm-hearted tale"]
''Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo, California, El Segundo since 2018, it is the List of new ...
'', December 24, 2013. in an unsuccessful attempt to garner an
Academy Award nomination for
Best Animated Feature.
["Toon boom blurs the line"]
'' Variety'', December 1, 2012.
References
External links
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* (English title)
* {{IMDb title, 2170474, Le Noël de Walter et Tandoori (French title)
2000s Canadian animated television series
2000s Canadian children's television series
2005 Canadian television series debuts
2010s Canadian animated television series
2010s Canadian children's television series
2010 Canadian television series endings
Canadian children's animated adventure television series
Canadian English-language television shows
Ici Radio-Canada Télé original programming
Vrak original programming
Canadian animated web series
Television series by Image Entertainment Corporation
Télé-Québec original programming
Canadian children's web series