"Creature Comforts America" (2007) "Creature Comforts" (original title), TV series 2007-

Writer:

Kit Boss

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

4 June 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy

Plot:

U.S. version of the popular animated U.K series about animals who talk about various aspects of everyday life.

Plot Keywords:

Based On TV Series

Awards:

Won Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Julie Dove

...

Puffer Fish (3 episodes)

Series Directed by
Merlin Crossingham		(8 episodes, 2007)
Dave Osmand		(8 episodes, 2007)
Richard Goleszowski		(7 episodes, 2007)

Series Writing credits
Chad Carter		(7 episodes, 2007)
Michael Dougan		(7 episodes, 2007)
June Diane Raphael		(7 episodes, 2007)
Ben Stout		(7 episodes, 2007)
Casey Wilson		(7 episodes, 2007)
Kit Boss		(unknown episodes)

Series Produced by
Ben Stout	....	co-producer (8 episodes, 2007)
Gareth Owen	....	producer (7 episodes, 2007)
Kenny Micka	....	producer (6 episodes, 2007)
Peter Hastings	....	consulting producer (unknown episodes, 2007)
Peter McHugh	....	co-executive producer (unknown episodes, 2007)
Kit Boss	....	executive producer (unknown episodes)
Miles Bullough	....	executive producer (unknown episodes)
Ellen Goldsmith-Vein	....	executive producer (unknown episodes)
Peter Lord	....	executive producer (unknown episodes)
Nick Park	....	executive producer (unknown episodes)
David Sproxton	....	executive producer (unknown episodes)

Series Cinematography by
Toby Howell		(6 episodes, 2007)

Series Film Editing by
Ben Stout		(unknown episodes)

Series Art Department
Susie Baty	....	art department assistant (8 episodes, 2007)

Series Sound Department
Jeremy Peirson	....	sound re-recording mixer (7 episodes, 2007)
Takako Ishikawa	....	sound effects editor (4 episodes, 2007)

Series Animation Department
Yago Alvarez	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Sara Barbas	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Will Becher	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Nev Bezaire	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Terry Brain	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Mike Cash	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Joanne Chalkley	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Julianna Cox	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Timon Dowdeswell	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Teresa Drilling	....	animator / key animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Christopher Durlez	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Jo Fenton	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Francesca Ferrario	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Dicken Franklin	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Tom Gasek	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Wendy Griffiths	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Maria Hopkinson	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Virpi Kettu	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Gareth Love	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Rhodri Lovett	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Grant Maisey	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Suzy Parr	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Edward Patterson	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Julia Peguet	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Pascual Perez	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Florian Perinelle	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Martin Pool	....	assistant animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Bartek Prusiewicz	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Sam	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Justin Smith	....	assistant animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Darren Thomson	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Chris Tootell	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Graham Tormey	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Dhimant Vyas	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Dean Watson	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Ian Whitlock	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Inez Woldman	....	animator (8 episodes, 2007)
Seamus Malone	....	animator (7 episodes, 2007)
Shona de Bradeny	....	animator (unknown episodes, 2007)

Series Casting Department
Aaron Jay Kenny	....	casting: key interviewer (unknown episodes, 2007)

Series Editorial Department
Nahum Galeote Martin	....	associate editor (8 episodes, 2007)
Patrick Bellanger	....	on-line editor (5 episodes, 2007)
Abe Forman-Greenwald	....	associate editor (unknown episodes, 2007)

Series Other crew
Kyle Hartigan	....	production assistant (8 episodes, 2007)
Chad Carter	....	story editor (7 episodes, 2007)
Megan Lynn	....	assistant to executive producer (7 episodes, 2007)
June Diane Raphael	....	story editor (7 episodes, 2007)
Jon Roy	....	interviewer (7 episodes, 2007)
Casey Wilson	....	story editor (7 episodes, 2007)
Lauren Schwartz	....	production coordinator (3 episodes, 2007)
Masha Tivyan	....	interviewer (3 episodes, 2007)
Kate Munkenbeck	....	floor manager (unknown episodes, 2007)

Production Companies

• Aardman Animations
• Gotham Group

Distributors

• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (2007) (USA) (TV)

Also Known As:

"Creature Comforts" - UK (original title)

Runtime:

USA:30 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Filming Locations:

Bristol, England, UK

Company:

Aardman Animations

Movie Connections:

Remake of "Creature Comforts" (2003)

Stylish boredom

The British claymation series putting "witty" conversations taped from "average" people in the mouths of "cute" fanciful creatures at least had the advantage for non-British viewers of seeming droll and the kind of rarefied cultured humor you couldn't get on U.S. television. Someone made the mistake of PUTTING it on U.S. television.

Sort of like the sadly miscast American version of the sublime Brit-com COUPLING which died in a month on NBC when the same basic scripts didn't "translate" from British English to American English, what seemed droll and cultured (and just a BIT dull) in England, comes across in CREATURE COMFORTS, the American Version, as simply boredom with puppets. There's no through plot-line, no characters and after one and a half episodes watched (of the three ultimately aired), no reason to suffer through more.

The only positive thing to be said about the new summer series and the mercifully brief run it had is that the claymation is at least professionally done and coming as a set-up for the single worst show on the CBS schedule, The New Adventures of Old Christine (or "how to be a HORRIBLE mother - or person - in one interminable, unfunny lesson"), kids who wanted to stay up past their bedtime happily ran to bed rather than sit through this show, and the adults could wait to tune in until 9pm when "Two and A Half Men" (guilty pleasure) and "How I Met Your Mother" (actual quality writing) come on.