Remember Shaun the Sheep? He first appeared in A Close Shave, and now he's got his own series being shown on CBBC One. It's a series of 40 seven minute episodes commissioned by the BBC amongst others from Aardman. The first couple of episodes aired today at 3.45pm. What do you mean you weren't home from work in time? Record them.
The first couple of episodes involve Shaun and his fellow sheep chums getting into mischief behind their farmer's back doing things like organising football matches with a stray cabbage, or filling a swimming pool with hot water. It's all done in a typically inventive Aardman with clever references that are going to fly straight over young kids' heads but will tickle watching parents (or *ahem* other interested parties).
Great fun, and as The Stage says "Hurrah for great childrens' TV."
What a shame that ITV couldn't commission something like this. Let's put it this way - negotiate a slice of the revenues from toy tie-ins and you're looking at something that generates bucket loads of cash. ITV would prefer to run Supermarket Sweep or Morse repeats.
Posted by adambowie at March 5, 2007 11:39 PM