To celebrate the release of Ivor the Engine: The Complete Collection on DVD and Blu-ray from 20th November, we’re giving away a Blu-Ray Complete Collection!
The end of the 1950s found Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin feeling their way into a new and challenging world of stop-frame animation. Their first collaboration as Smallfilms brought us the utterly charming six-part story of how Ivor the Engine got the chance to fulfil his dream of singing in the choir of the Grumbly and District Choral Society.
Now, for the first time, all the series have been lovingly remastered and brought together in one definitive collection. Voiced, along with Postgate, by David Edwards, Olwen Griffiths and Anthony Jackson and accompanied by the beautifully evocative bassoon music of Vernon Elliott, we bring you Ivor the Engine. Peep-peep!
Ivor the Engine is the story of a (sometimes disobedient) small green locomotive who works...
The end of the 1950s found Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin feeling their way into a new and challenging world of stop-frame animation. Their first collaboration as Smallfilms brought us the utterly charming six-part story of how Ivor the Engine got the chance to fulfil his dream of singing in the choir of the Grumbly and District Choral Society.
Now, for the first time, all the series have been lovingly remastered and brought together in one definitive collection. Voiced, along with Postgate, by David Edwards, Olwen Griffiths and Anthony Jackson and accompanied by the beautifully evocative bassoon music of Vernon Elliott, we bring you Ivor the Engine. Peep-peep!
Ivor the Engine is the story of a (sometimes disobedient) small green locomotive who works...
- 10/30/2023
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
To celebrate the release of The Clangers, available to own on Blu-Ray and DVD from 30th October, we are giving away Blu-Rays to 2 lucky winners!
Originally broadcast between 1969 and 1972 Clangers was made by Smallfilms the company set up by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin producing many other childhood classics including Bagpuss, Noggin the Nog and Ivor the Engine.
Enjoy all 26 episodes from Season 1 and 2, now fully restored and presented from high-definition masters.
Discover a small blue planet populated by pink beings known as Clangers, a green dragon who cultivates soup and orange monopods who emerge from a magician’s top hat. Wonderful and exotic creatures often visit, and are always very welcome, especially a chicken made of iron who lives on a nearby nest made of space junk.
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Originally broadcast between 1969 and 1972 Clangers was made by Smallfilms the company set up by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin producing many other childhood classics including Bagpuss, Noggin the Nog and Ivor the Engine.
Enjoy all 26 episodes from Season 1 and 2, now fully restored and presented from high-definition masters.
Discover a small blue planet populated by pink beings known as Clangers, a green dragon who cultivates soup and orange monopods who emerge from a magician’s top hat. Wonderful and exotic creatures often visit, and are always very welcome, especially a chicken made of iron who lives on a nearby nest made of space junk.
Please note: This competition is open to UK residents only.
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- 10/22/2023
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
To celebrate the release of Bagpuss, available to own from 9th October on DVD and Blu-Ray, we are giving away Blu-Rays to 2 lucky winners!
Bagpuss was first seen on British television on 12th February 1974. Only 13 episodes were ever made, but the programme has remained popular down the generations and was voted the all-time favourite children’s programme in 1999. Join Emily and friends as she wakes Bagpuss once again, now fully restored in high definition, from the film negatives.
This charming children’s stop motion animation was made by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, starring the “saggy old cloth cat” Bagpuss. Postgate and Firmin’s production company Smallfilms created some of the most loved children’s programmes from 1959 until the 80s, working from a disused cowshed at Firmin’s home in Blean, near Canterbury. As well as Bagpuss they made Pogle’s Wood, The Clangers, Ivor the Engine and Noggin the Nog.
Bagpuss was first seen on British television on 12th February 1974. Only 13 episodes were ever made, but the programme has remained popular down the generations and was voted the all-time favourite children’s programme in 1999. Join Emily and friends as she wakes Bagpuss once again, now fully restored in high definition, from the film negatives.
This charming children’s stop motion animation was made by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, starring the “saggy old cloth cat” Bagpuss. Postgate and Firmin’s production company Smallfilms created some of the most loved children’s programmes from 1959 until the 80s, working from a disused cowshed at Firmin’s home in Blean, near Canterbury. As well as Bagpuss they made Pogle’s Wood, The Clangers, Ivor the Engine and Noggin the Nog.
- 10/1/2023
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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On rainy days, television isn’t only a parent’s best friend, it’s a lifeline. Let’s be honest, during the seemingly endless school holidays, the TV is also practically a co-parent.
But kids’ TV is undeniably formative: the best shows really stay with us, fondly in our memories, all the way through to adulthood. The best of the best are even still fun to watch as grownups.
Whether you’re looking for a nostalgia hit, some quality family viewing or a bit of headphones-and-bowl-of-sliced-apple alone time for your youngest, we’ve collected up 50 top children’s TV shows from across the UK’s major streaming platforms. (As well as the 50 best British TV dramas and British TV comedies available.) Find a few old classics and plenty of new favourites below…
Adventure Time
Pendleton Ward’s endlessly inventive fantasy cartoon about the...
On rainy days, television isn’t only a parent’s best friend, it’s a lifeline. Let’s be honest, during the seemingly endless school holidays, the TV is also practically a co-parent.
But kids’ TV is undeniably formative: the best shows really stay with us, fondly in our memories, all the way through to adulthood. The best of the best are even still fun to watch as grownups.
Whether you’re looking for a nostalgia hit, some quality family viewing or a bit of headphones-and-bowl-of-sliced-apple alone time for your youngest, we’ve collected up 50 top children’s TV shows from across the UK’s major streaming platforms. (As well as the 50 best British TV dramas and British TV comedies available.) Find a few old classics and plenty of new favourites below…
Adventure Time
Pendleton Ward’s endlessly inventive fantasy cartoon about the...
- 4/4/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Peter Firmin, the creator of classic kids characters including Clangers, Bagpuss and Basil Brush, has died aged 89.
Firmin died at his home in Kent, UK, after a short illness. He is survived by his wife Joan and his six daughters as well as a raft of grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Firmin, who was born in Essex in 1928, was one half of legendary British production company Smallfilms, along with Oliver Postgate. The pair were responsible for creating kids series including Bagpuss, which aired on the BBC, and The Clangers, which also aired on the British public broadcaster as well as Universal Kids in the U.S. He also created Basil Brush with Ivan Owen.
A spokesman said: “During a career spanning over six decades, Peter worked with great skill in a remarkably wide variety of creative disciplines as a fine artist, craftsman and author.
“Of all his work, he will probably...
Firmin died at his home in Kent, UK, after a short illness. He is survived by his wife Joan and his six daughters as well as a raft of grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Firmin, who was born in Essex in 1928, was one half of legendary British production company Smallfilms, along with Oliver Postgate. The pair were responsible for creating kids series including Bagpuss, which aired on the BBC, and The Clangers, which also aired on the British public broadcaster as well as Universal Kids in the U.S. He also created Basil Brush with Ivan Owen.
A spokesman said: “During a career spanning over six decades, Peter worked with great skill in a remarkably wide variety of creative disciplines as a fine artist, craftsman and author.
“Of all his work, he will probably...
- 7/1/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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We salute Terry Brain and Charlie Mills, creators of 1980s children’s stop-motion animated TV series, The Trap Door…
Somewhere in the dark and nasty regions where nobody goes stands an ancient castle. Deep within this dank and uninviting place lives Berk, overworked servant of The Thing Upstairs. But that’s nothing compared to the horrors that lurk beneath the trap door. For there is always something down there, in the dark, waiting to come out…
What was under the trap door? In 1986, a three inch stack of film reel cans forming a makeshift plinth for whatever Plasticine monster was due to spill out of it in that episode. Over the course of forty mini-episodes in the mid-eighties, a legion of skittering demons and tentacled beasts slithered off those reel cans and into the psychedelic polka-dotted castle dungeons where they caused havoc for servant Berk and his disembodied skull companion Boni.
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We salute Terry Brain and Charlie Mills, creators of 1980s children’s stop-motion animated TV series, The Trap Door…
Somewhere in the dark and nasty regions where nobody goes stands an ancient castle. Deep within this dank and uninviting place lives Berk, overworked servant of The Thing Upstairs. But that’s nothing compared to the horrors that lurk beneath the trap door. For there is always something down there, in the dark, waiting to come out…
What was under the trap door? In 1986, a three inch stack of film reel cans forming a makeshift plinth for whatever Plasticine monster was due to spill out of it in that episode. Over the course of forty mini-episodes in the mid-eighties, a legion of skittering demons and tentacled beasts slithered off those reel cans and into the psychedelic polka-dotted castle dungeons where they caused havoc for servant Berk and his disembodied skull companion Boni.
- 3/29/2016
- Den of Geek
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Eye-patches, a yo-yo, Game Of Thrones and Benny Hill. Here are the geeky bits and pieces we noticed in Doctor Who's The Girl Who Died...
While Ashildr watches the centuries pass waiting until her paths cross with the Doctor again, here’s something she might want to read to the pass the time - it’s the fifth of our geekly, weekly viewing guides to the ninth series of Doctor Who, pulling together all of the references and callbacks, recurring themes and motifs, and tenuous connections that we thought were interesting enough to write about anyway.
As always, if you spot something that we haven’t, please do share it with us in the comments below - so far, you’ve proved that we have some impressively eagle-eyed readers out there! And remember - it’s just a bit of fun...
Norse Mythology
This isn’t...
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Eye-patches, a yo-yo, Game Of Thrones and Benny Hill. Here are the geeky bits and pieces we noticed in Doctor Who's The Girl Who Died...
While Ashildr watches the centuries pass waiting until her paths cross with the Doctor again, here’s something she might want to read to the pass the time - it’s the fifth of our geekly, weekly viewing guides to the ninth series of Doctor Who, pulling together all of the references and callbacks, recurring themes and motifs, and tenuous connections that we thought were interesting enough to write about anyway.
As always, if you spot something that we haven’t, please do share it with us in the comments below - so far, you’ve proved that we have some impressively eagle-eyed readers out there! And remember - it’s just a bit of fun...
Norse Mythology
This isn’t...
- 10/16/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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Puns, movie references and nods to Aardman’s past abound in Wallace & Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death…
Animator Nick Park’s fifth Wallace and Gromit film, A Matter Of Loaf And Death (named for the Powell & Pressburger 1946 fantasy romance A Matter Of Life And Death, the first of many such baking-related puns) became the most-watched television programme in the UK in 2008, attracting a Christmas day average audience of 14.4 million viewers. It saw 62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan, transformed into a granary, making Wallace the target of a “cereal killer” intent on ridding the world of bakers. Gromit, as ever, came to the rescue.
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We’ve scoured the half-hour short to unpack some of Aardman’s characteristic in-jokes and film references…
1. The name and look of Baker Bob, who meets an unfortunate end at the hands...
Puns, movie references and nods to Aardman’s past abound in Wallace & Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death…
Animator Nick Park’s fifth Wallace and Gromit film, A Matter Of Loaf And Death (named for the Powell & Pressburger 1946 fantasy romance A Matter Of Life And Death, the first of many such baking-related puns) became the most-watched television programme in the UK in 2008, attracting a Christmas day average audience of 14.4 million viewers. It saw 62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan, transformed into a granary, making Wallace the target of a “cereal killer” intent on ridding the world of bakers. Gromit, as ever, came to the rescue.
See related Why Alien: Isolation proves the Alien deserves another movie
We’ve scoured the half-hour short to unpack some of Aardman’s characteristic in-jokes and film references…
1. The name and look of Baker Bob, who meets an unfortunate end at the hands...
- 6/29/2015
- Den of Geek
The new CBeebies Clangers series is a rare thing: an advert for the wisdom of remaking old childhood properties…
When it was first reported on this site that Smallfilms’ sixties and seventies stop-motion classic children’s series Clangers was next for the remake treatment, the fears of many were wittily summed up by one commenter:
“Surely in this age of self-aware/horribly loud/jitteringly insane Adhd-driven kids’ programming, those in charge of the £s are unlikely to sign off on the kind of gentle, quiet whimsy in which Oliver Postgate specialised, and which made Clangers so magical? Or they’ll insist on introducing a new teenaged son Clanger who has a flying skateboard or something? And who speaks like a marketing hack’s idea of what a teenaged boy speaks like? Or the Iron Chicken will lay exploding eggs?” - StefMo.
The latest in a long line of in-development children’s TV revivals,...
When it was first reported on this site that Smallfilms’ sixties and seventies stop-motion classic children’s series Clangers was next for the remake treatment, the fears of many were wittily summed up by one commenter:
“Surely in this age of self-aware/horribly loud/jitteringly insane Adhd-driven kids’ programming, those in charge of the £s are unlikely to sign off on the kind of gentle, quiet whimsy in which Oliver Postgate specialised, and which made Clangers so magical? Or they’ll insist on introducing a new teenaged son Clanger who has a flying skateboard or something? And who speaks like a marketing hack’s idea of what a teenaged boy speaks like? Or the Iron Chicken will lay exploding eggs?” - StefMo.
The latest in a long line of in-development children’s TV revivals,...
- 6/15/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Sprout’s newest original series, “Clangers,” starring Emmy and Golden Globe winner William Shatner as the narrator, is quite possibly the best new entry in children’s programming on television today, and it also has a rich history.Communicating only in whistles with a guiding voice over from the narrator, the Clanger clan eat special green soup from the Soup Dragon and work out all sorts of pinkish knitted dilemmas together. You can thank creators at British production house Smallfilms, where Oliver Postgate (writer, animator and narrator) and Peter Firmin (modelmaker and illustrator) designed the characters, and Firmin’s wife knitted and “dressed” the […]...
- 6/11/2015
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Excited about the upcoming Clangers comeback on CBeebies? You won't want to miss this sneak peek.
The BBC has released a short two-minute preview of the new series, which is narrated by Michael Palin.
The popular stop-motion animated TV show will air its first new episodes in more than 40 years this year.
Clangers originally lasted two series and 26 episodes between 1969 and 1972 on the BBC. A four-minute election special was also shown in October 1974.
The show's much-loved characters, including Major, Mother, Small and Tiny Clanger, will all be returning.
Peter Firmin, the original model-maker, and Daniel Postgate, son of the show's creator Oliver Postgate, are actively involved in the new series as executive producers.
Meanwhile, William Shatner will narrate a remake of Clangers in the Us.
The BBC has released a short two-minute preview of the new series, which is narrated by Michael Palin.
The popular stop-motion animated TV show will air its first new episodes in more than 40 years this year.
Clangers originally lasted two series and 26 episodes between 1969 and 1972 on the BBC. A four-minute election special was also shown in October 1974.
The show's much-loved characters, including Major, Mother, Small and Tiny Clanger, will all be returning.
Peter Firmin, the original model-maker, and Daniel Postgate, son of the show's creator Oliver Postgate, are actively involved in the new series as executive producers.
Meanwhile, William Shatner will narrate a remake of Clangers in the Us.
- 5/26/2015
- Digital Spy
The BBC/Sprout reboot of Oliver Postgate's Clangers will feature Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner…
An interesting one, this. While Michael Palin had already been announced as the Narrator for the Clangers reboot, William Shatner has now also been named.
Michael Palin hasn’t been publically removed from the project, so we’re assuming here that both Palin and Shatner will provide voice-work.
Perhaps, Shatner will appear for the American airings, and Palin for the UK ones? That seems like a bizarre option though.
We’d love to hear them together, with a touch of veteran-actor chemistry contributing to the enjoyment. Only time, or a clarification via press release, will tell.
Sandy Wax, head honcho of American pre-school network Sprout (who are co-producing the show with the BBC) said that Shatner would bring "humour and wink" to the show, while the fact his voice “felt comfortable in outer space” was a bonus.
An interesting one, this. While Michael Palin had already been announced as the Narrator for the Clangers reboot, William Shatner has now also been named.
Michael Palin hasn’t been publically removed from the project, so we’re assuming here that both Palin and Shatner will provide voice-work.
Perhaps, Shatner will appear for the American airings, and Palin for the UK ones? That seems like a bizarre option though.
We’d love to hear them together, with a touch of veteran-actor chemistry contributing to the enjoyment. Only time, or a clarification via press release, will tell.
Sandy Wax, head honcho of American pre-school network Sprout (who are co-producing the show with the BBC) said that Shatner would bring "humour and wink" to the show, while the fact his voice “felt comfortable in outer space” was a bonus.
- 1/16/2015
- by rleane
- Den of Geek
BAFTA has announced that Peter Firmin will receive its Special Award.
The television illustrator and puppet maker is credited as one of the co-creators of The Clangers, Bagpuss and Noggin the Nog.
The 85-year-old will be presented with the accolade at this year's British Academy Children's Awards, held on November 23 at The Roundhouse in Camden, London, presented by Bernard Cribbins.
The Chairman of BAFTA's Children's Committee Harvey Elliott said: "Peter Firmin helped lay the foundations for the industry we see today, all from his small barn in Blean.
"His legacy is delighting and enchanting a whole new generation with the upcoming remake of family favourite The Clangers. Over the past 50 years, Peter's work has thrilled, entertained and inspired generations of filmmakers and animators and he is more than deserving of the Special Award at this year's British Academy Children's Awards."
Firmin added: "I'm delighted to receive this Special Award from BAFTA.
The television illustrator and puppet maker is credited as one of the co-creators of The Clangers, Bagpuss and Noggin the Nog.
The 85-year-old will be presented with the accolade at this year's British Academy Children's Awards, held on November 23 at The Roundhouse in Camden, London, presented by Bernard Cribbins.
The Chairman of BAFTA's Children's Committee Harvey Elliott said: "Peter Firmin helped lay the foundations for the industry we see today, all from his small barn in Blean.
"His legacy is delighting and enchanting a whole new generation with the upcoming remake of family favourite The Clangers. Over the past 50 years, Peter's work has thrilled, entertained and inspired generations of filmmakers and animators and he is more than deserving of the Special Award at this year's British Academy Children's Awards."
Firmin added: "I'm delighted to receive this Special Award from BAFTA.
- 11/11/2014
- Digital Spy
Michael Palin will narrate the new series of kids TV show the 'Clangers'. The 'Monty Python' star has signed on to become the voice of the animated classic about a pink mouse from a blue plant in outer space and said it was a ''real privilege'' to be offered the role. The 71-year-old actor -who has also produced a series of travel documentaries - was chosen for the part by Daniel Postgate, the son of Oliver Postgate, a co-creator of the original show which aired from 1969 to 1972. Daniel - who will executive produce the series alongside Peter Firmin - said:...
- 9/8/2014
- Virgin Media - TV
Michael Palin will help resurrect The Clangers in new series…
Heart-warming news here for Brits with nostalgic feelings towards Clangers - the moon-set, whistling-heavy, charmingly-puppety TV show is back for a new series.
Taking over voicing duties in the stead of the show’s late co-creator Oliver Postgate will be Monty Python legend Michael Palin.
Oliver Postgate’s son Daniel Postgate will produce the show alongside his father’s former colleague, and fellow Clangers co-creator, Peter Firmin.
Firmin enthused that “Michael Palin was my first and favourite choice, so of course I'm absolutely delighted.”
“Among other things, he's been a warm and charming guide for us all in his extensive travels around this world, “added Firmin, “so it seems wonderfully appropriate that he should pack his bags once more, go off across the starry expanse of space and do the same for the world of the Clangers."
The new series,...
Heart-warming news here for Brits with nostalgic feelings towards Clangers - the moon-set, whistling-heavy, charmingly-puppety TV show is back for a new series.
Taking over voicing duties in the stead of the show’s late co-creator Oliver Postgate will be Monty Python legend Michael Palin.
Oliver Postgate’s son Daniel Postgate will produce the show alongside his father’s former colleague, and fellow Clangers co-creator, Peter Firmin.
Firmin enthused that “Michael Palin was my first and favourite choice, so of course I'm absolutely delighted.”
“Among other things, he's been a warm and charming guide for us all in his extensive travels around this world, “added Firmin, “so it seems wonderfully appropriate that he should pack his bags once more, go off across the starry expanse of space and do the same for the world of the Clangers."
The new series,...
- 9/8/2014
- by rleane
- Den of Geek
The new series of Clangers will feature Michael Palin as its narrator.
The Monty Python member will appear in the contemporary take on the children's animation series.
Palin said of the show: "The world of the Clangers is delightful and irresistible. It's a real pleasure and a great privilege to be a part of its return to television."
The show's executive producer Daniel Postgate, who is son of original Clangers creator and narrator Oliver Postgate, said: "Michael Palin was my first and favourite choice, so of course I'm absolutely delighted.
"Among other things, he's been a warm and charming guide for us all in his extensive travels around this world, so it seems wonderfully appropriate that he should pack his bags once more, go off across the starry expanse of space and do the same for the world of the Clangers."
Clangers will air on the BBC next spring.
Michael Palin...
The Monty Python member will appear in the contemporary take on the children's animation series.
Palin said of the show: "The world of the Clangers is delightful and irresistible. It's a real pleasure and a great privilege to be a part of its return to television."
The show's executive producer Daniel Postgate, who is son of original Clangers creator and narrator Oliver Postgate, said: "Michael Palin was my first and favourite choice, so of course I'm absolutely delighted.
"Among other things, he's been a warm and charming guide for us all in his extensive travels around this world, so it seems wonderfully appropriate that he should pack his bags once more, go off across the starry expanse of space and do the same for the world of the Clangers."
Clangers will air on the BBC next spring.
Michael Palin...
- 9/7/2014
- Digital Spy
How likely is the current crop of kids' TV reboots, from Danger Mouse to The Clangers, Morph and more, to harm your childhood memories?
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The period June 9th to 15th 2014 was an unpleasant raid on the collective VHS cassette memory of our youth. Not only did Eric Hill, the creator of Spot the Dog, pass away, but so too did Casey Kasem, who for forty years had been the voice of Scooby-Doo's snack wingman Shaggy. Francis Matthews, the stiff upper lip behind Captain Scarlet's stiff puppet lip, departed to be with a different angel squadron. And before that Earth lost Rik Mayall, who performed the best Jackanory ever. Sorry Prince Charles. He did.
So if you felt a part of your formative years had suddenly melted away like a Funny Feet ice cream abandoned on a see-saw, then that's perfectly normal. It's always sad and strangely personal...
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The period June 9th to 15th 2014 was an unpleasant raid on the collective VHS cassette memory of our youth. Not only did Eric Hill, the creator of Spot the Dog, pass away, but so too did Casey Kasem, who for forty years had been the voice of Scooby-Doo's snack wingman Shaggy. Francis Matthews, the stiff upper lip behind Captain Scarlet's stiff puppet lip, departed to be with a different angel squadron. And before that Earth lost Rik Mayall, who performed the best Jackanory ever. Sorry Prince Charles. He did.
So if you felt a part of your formative years had suddenly melted away like a Funny Feet ice cream abandoned on a see-saw, then that's perfectly normal. It's always sad and strangely personal...
- 6/22/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Iconic children's TV character Bagpuss celebrates his 40th anniversary today (February 12).
All 13 episodes of the show have been digitally remastered in HD to mark the anniversary, and will be shown in Picturehouse cinemas thoughout the country during the year.
A new range of merchandise featuring the "old fat furry catpuss" - including a set of Royal Mail stamps - will also enter production.
Bagpuss has also been reunited with owner Emily Firmin to celebrate the anniversary. Now aged 48, Emily played the then-8-year-old girl who featured in the photographs for the much-loved children's programme's opening credits.
Speaking about being reunited with the original cloth cat - which is now an exhibit in Canterbury Heritage Museum in Kent - she told The Telegraph: "It's lovely to be reunited with Bagpuss after all these years.
"I can barely believe it's been 40 years since I sat in that old Victorian outfit and posed...
All 13 episodes of the show have been digitally remastered in HD to mark the anniversary, and will be shown in Picturehouse cinemas thoughout the country during the year.
A new range of merchandise featuring the "old fat furry catpuss" - including a set of Royal Mail stamps - will also enter production.
Bagpuss has also been reunited with owner Emily Firmin to celebrate the anniversary. Now aged 48, Emily played the then-8-year-old girl who featured in the photographs for the much-loved children's programme's opening credits.
Speaking about being reunited with the original cloth cat - which is now an exhibit in Canterbury Heritage Museum in Kent - she told The Telegraph: "It's lovely to be reunited with Bagpuss after all these years.
"I can barely believe it's been 40 years since I sat in that old Victorian outfit and posed...
- 2/12/2014
- Digital Spy
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The Clangers are coming back to children's television with a brand new stop-motion series in 2015...
In the wake of those nine unseen-for-forty-five-years Doctor Who episodes reappearing, another sixties BBC classic is making its return to modern television. Clangers, which debuted on the Beeb in 1969, is being revived for a new series in 2015.
CBeebies and a group of international partners are co-producing the new series, announced to have a budget of £5 million. That'll buy you a lot of pink knitting wool.
CGI-phobics can rest assured, because the newly revived space mice-oids are to be rendered in old-fashioned stop-motion animation, with original co-creator Peter Firmin and Daniel Postgate (son of Firmin's late collaborator, Oliver Postgate) executive producing, working on design and writing storylines and scripts.
The puppet makers are to be Mackinnon and Saunders, the same company that worked on Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox,...
The Clangers are coming back to children's television with a brand new stop-motion series in 2015...
In the wake of those nine unseen-for-forty-five-years Doctor Who episodes reappearing, another sixties BBC classic is making its return to modern television. Clangers, which debuted on the Beeb in 1969, is being revived for a new series in 2015.
CBeebies and a group of international partners are co-producing the new series, announced to have a budget of £5 million. That'll buy you a lot of pink knitting wool.
CGI-phobics can rest assured, because the newly revived space mice-oids are to be rendered in old-fashioned stop-motion animation, with original co-creator Peter Firmin and Daniel Postgate (son of Firmin's late collaborator, Oliver Postgate) executive producing, working on design and writing storylines and scripts.
The puppet makers are to be Mackinnon and Saunders, the same company that worked on Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox,...
- 10/15/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Children's TV icons the Clangers are making a comeback on the BBC.
The much-loved animated television show will air its first new episodes in 45 years on CBeebies, it has been announced. CBeebies, Coolabi, Smallfilms and Us 24-hour pre-school network Sprout are teaming up on the project.
The pink, long-nosed, inventive and loveable mouse-shaped creatures will return to screens in 2015 in an ambitious £5 million production, which will be distributed by BBC Worldwide.
Clangers originally aired for two series and 26 episodes between 1969 and 1972 on the BBC. A four-minute election special also aired in October 1974.
The show's popular and surreal characters, who included Major, Mother, Small, and Tiny Clanger, plus the Soup Dragon and The Iron Chicken, will all be returning.
Factory Transmedia (Strange Hill High, Raa Raa the Noisy Lion) and award-winning puppet makers and producers Mackinnon and Saunders (Corpse Bride, Fantastic Mr Fox) are charged with reproducing the popular characters for modern audiences.
The much-loved animated television show will air its first new episodes in 45 years on CBeebies, it has been announced. CBeebies, Coolabi, Smallfilms and Us 24-hour pre-school network Sprout are teaming up on the project.
The pink, long-nosed, inventive and loveable mouse-shaped creatures will return to screens in 2015 in an ambitious £5 million production, which will be distributed by BBC Worldwide.
Clangers originally aired for two series and 26 episodes between 1969 and 1972 on the BBC. A four-minute election special also aired in October 1974.
The show's popular and surreal characters, who included Major, Mother, Small, and Tiny Clanger, plus the Soup Dragon and The Iron Chicken, will all be returning.
Factory Transmedia (Strange Hill High, Raa Raa the Noisy Lion) and award-winning puppet makers and producers Mackinnon and Saunders (Corpse Bride, Fantastic Mr Fox) are charged with reproducing the popular characters for modern audiences.
- 10/15/2013
- Digital Spy
Toby Jones is an actor who may go unnoticed to the average moviegoer, as he has the ability to blend into movies in a way that not every actor can. Horror fans should remember him from The Mist, while others can find him in Doctor Who, Harry Potter and Captain America.
One of his latest projects is Berberian Sound Studio, which began its limited theatrical release today. I recently had a chance to talk with him about the movie, and he discussed his reasons for taking on the role, his love of Foley, and his familiarity with giallo films:
Thank you very much for taking the time to talk with me today. I really enjoyed your performance in Berberian Sound Studio and wanted to learn more about your part in the movie. How did you get involved and why did you want to be a part of this project?
Toby Jones...
One of his latest projects is Berberian Sound Studio, which began its limited theatrical release today. I recently had a chance to talk with him about the movie, and he discussed his reasons for taking on the role, his love of Foley, and his familiarity with giallo films:
Thank you very much for taking the time to talk with me today. I really enjoyed your performance in Berberian Sound Studio and wanted to learn more about your part in the movie. How did you get involved and why did you want to be a part of this project?
Toby Jones...
- 6/15/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Charlie Brooker’s pack of 3 stand-alone shows has certainly raised eyebrows with its controversial content but has won plaudits both from critics and the viewing public. The final episode aired last night and the series has left many thinking he should be up for some awards come ceremony time. Does he deserve a BAFTA? Many think so, and if he does achieve that recognition it will have been quite a journey for a man who was once known merely as a venomous critic, spitting vitriol over prime time television.
When the big HBO shows were first aired on this side of the pond I excitedly tuned in every Sunday evening to watch these soon-to-be classics. The Sopranos, Deadwood and 6 Feet Under were like nothing I’d seen before. At the same time I was a regular reader of The Guide, the Guardian’s Saturday supplement, in which Charlie Brooker wrote his Screen Burn column.
When the big HBO shows were first aired on this side of the pond I excitedly tuned in every Sunday evening to watch these soon-to-be classics. The Sopranos, Deadwood and 6 Feet Under were like nothing I’d seen before. At the same time I was a regular reader of The Guide, the Guardian’s Saturday supplement, in which Charlie Brooker wrote his Screen Burn column.
- 12/19/2011
- by A.W. Wilson
- Obsessed with Film
The cartoon canine is to be voiced by Eddie Murphy in a CGI reboot. Why? They only made 16 episodes for a reason ...
Of course there's going to be a Hong Kong Phooey film. And of course it'll blend CGI with live-action comedy. And of course Eddie Murphy will provide the voice of Hong Kong Phooey. Of course all of that will happen. Hollywood loves plundering old cartoons for ideas and, now that Shrek has finished, Eddie Murphy needs some voiceover work to stop him making a Norbit sequel. This was always going to happen. There's no point fighting it.
But there's a problem. Even in its original form, Hong Kong Phooey was rubbish. The scripts were stale, the animation was jerky and every episode was basically identical. They only made 16 episodes for a reason. The sheen of irony and misplaced nostalgia might have buoyed its reputation in recent years, but...
Of course there's going to be a Hong Kong Phooey film. And of course it'll blend CGI with live-action comedy. And of course Eddie Murphy will provide the voice of Hong Kong Phooey. Of course all of that will happen. Hollywood loves plundering old cartoons for ideas and, now that Shrek has finished, Eddie Murphy needs some voiceover work to stop him making a Norbit sequel. This was always going to happen. There's no point fighting it.
But there's a problem. Even in its original form, Hong Kong Phooey was rubbish. The scripts were stale, the animation was jerky and every episode was basically identical. They only made 16 episodes for a reason. The sheen of irony and misplaced nostalgia might have buoyed its reputation in recent years, but...
- 8/12/2011
- by Stuart Heritage
- The Guardian - Film News
Jason Manford, Oliver Postgate and a whole lot of movies lead this week's TV round-up...
Geek Week TV: saving clicking finger tendons and remote batteries since 2009
In the run up to what's proving to be an Easter TV week to remember, there's a couple of promising shows to enjoy now, before the sugar shock sets in and the geeklets near you start bouncing off all available surfaces.
Comedy Rocks With Jason Manford airs tonight, Friday March 26th at 9:00pm on ITV1. It's billed as a variety show, but don't let that scare you off as the scales seem heavily tipped in the comedic direction with standup comic John Bishop and Jo Brand lined up alongside the music and other acts. We're quite happy to spend time with Mr Manford outside of his 8 Out Of 10 Cats team captain duties and are booking our spot on the settee early.
Then on Wednesday,...
Geek Week TV: saving clicking finger tendons and remote batteries since 2009
In the run up to what's proving to be an Easter TV week to remember, there's a couple of promising shows to enjoy now, before the sugar shock sets in and the geeklets near you start bouncing off all available surfaces.
Comedy Rocks With Jason Manford airs tonight, Friday March 26th at 9:00pm on ITV1. It's billed as a variety show, but don't let that scare you off as the scales seem heavily tipped in the comedic direction with standup comic John Bishop and Jo Brand lined up alongside the music and other acts. We're quite happy to spend time with Mr Manford outside of his 8 Out Of 10 Cats team captain duties and are booking our spot on the settee early.
Then on Wednesday,...
- 3/26/2010
- Den of Geek
Animator Oliver Postgate, the creator of British children's TV show Bagpuss, has died at the age of 83.
Postgate was responsible for a string of iconic kids shows from the 1950s to the 1980s; including Ivor the Engine and Noggin the Nog, but he was most famous for The Clangers, a family of pink knitted aliens who spoke in whistles, and Bagpuss, a saggy pink cloth cat.
Postgate, a cousin of actress Angela Lansbury, died at a nursing home in Broadstairs, England on Monday, according to his partner Naomi Linnell.
He is survived by several children from his marriage to ex-wife Prudence Myers.
Postgate was responsible for a string of iconic kids shows from the 1950s to the 1980s; including Ivor the Engine and Noggin the Nog, but he was most famous for The Clangers, a family of pink knitted aliens who spoke in whistles, and Bagpuss, a saggy pink cloth cat.
Postgate, a cousin of actress Angela Lansbury, died at a nursing home in Broadstairs, England on Monday, according to his partner Naomi Linnell.
He is survived by several children from his marriage to ex-wife Prudence Myers.
- 12/9/2008
- WENN
Bagpuss creator Oliver Postgate has passed away, aged 83. Postgate's other TV work included Noggin The Nog, Ivor The Engine and The Clangers. He died at a nursing home in Broadstairs, Kent on Monday. His shows were created by his own company Smallfilms, which he developed with puppeteer Peter Firmin. The duo began the company in a disused cowshed in Kent. Postgate famously narrated all his Smallfilms programmes (more)...
- 12/9/2008
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Coolabi acquires UK indie licensing agency Licensing By Design, which gives Coolabi licensing and merchandising rights to properties including the kid-aimed Bagpuss, The Clangers and Ivor the Engine. We can look forward to merchandising programs for all three series, which were created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, which all continue to air. Fran Huxley, Managing Director, Licensing By Design will serve as a consultant on a part-time basis for Coolabi. Thomson Financial reports Coolabi purchased Licensing By Design in a deal worth about Us $660,000.
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- 10/24/2008
- by gwen@cynopsis.com
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