


Music plays an important part in the programme and children are encouraged to join in with songs and actions. Computer animation for the series was provided by Clockwork Digital, with Ben Mars animating Mungo, the computer creature who appears in some later episodes.Įpisodes consist of a mixture of story, song, and creative activity. Animation for the show was produced by A Productions, an animation studio based in Bristol, England, with Ealing Animation providing some animation in a few early episodes. Tweenies is a production of Tell-Tale Productions in association with the BBC. Jim Jam and Sunny, Basil Hair The Squirrel and Entertainment Rights' The Magical Lives of Toys. They also created The Fun Song Factory, Boo!, BB3B, Together they started producing two of the Playdays strands before forming their own production companies Tell-Tale Productions and, more recently, Wish Films. Iain Lauchlan was a presenter on Play School, Fingermouse and Playdays, meeting Brenton, a director, writer and also a presenter, during the latter. Together they set up Tell-Tale Productions at Elstree Film Studios in Hertfordshire. The idea for the programme came from Will Brenton and Iain Lauchlan, a pair with a track record of being involved in BBC children's programming. In the United States, it was shown on Noggin, a sister channel to Nickelodeon. The series premiered on the BBC's children's block, and aired reruns on CBeebies from the channel's launch in 2002 until 2016. In 2000, the show won a BAFTA award for Best Pre-school Live Action series, and singles featuring exclusive songs spent some weeks in the charts during the early 2000s. They are cared for by two adult Tweenies and two dogs.ģ90 episodes were broadcast between 6 September 1999 and 25 July 2002. The programme is focused on four pre-school aged characters, known as the "Tweenies", playing, singing, dancing, and learning in a fictional playgroup in England. Tweenies is a British live action children's television series created by Will Brenton and Iain Lauchlan. " Tweenies Theme (Are You Ready to Play?)" (instrumental, short version) " Tweenies Theme (Are You Ready to Play?)"

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