Kiddets
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Kiddets | |
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Genre | Children's Television Series Comedy Animation Live Action CGI |
Created by | Martin Baynton Richard Taylor |
Written by | Terri Baynton Peter Salmon Roxane Gaiadhar Sacha Cotter Sarah Harpur Lauren Jackson |
Directed by | Matthew Darragh Dries Naude |
Voices of | Ian Harcourt Richard Saade Debbie Fish Liz Mullane Jacob Rajan Simon Leary Emma Draper |
Narrated by | Martin Baynton |
Theme music composer | David Long |
Composer | David Long |
Country of origin | New Zealand |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 52 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Martin Baynton Richard Taylor Clive Spink Jianfeng Wen Bing Wang Lisa Chatfield |
Producers | Angela Littlejohn Jan Haynes Jane Robertson |
Production locations | New Zealand China |
Editor | Owen Ferrier-Kerr |
Running time | 11 minutes (television series) |
Production companies | Pukeko Pictures Hengxin Shambala Kids Cultural Industry Development Co., Ltd. |
Release | |
Original network | TVNZ Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
First shown in | Australia |
Original release | 3 September 2018 present | –
Chronology | |
Preceded by | The WotWots |
External links | |
Website |
Kiddets is a New Zealand children's television show which debuted in 2018 and sister series to The WotWots.[1] Created by Martin Baynton and Richard Taylor, the series uses computer animation mixed with live-action clips to follow five alien friends as they learn about life in their playroom. It currently consists of one series and a total of 52 eleven-minute episodes.[2]
Plot[]
The show follows five young alien friends called "Kiddets" each with an area of interest and learning; Patches (health and safety), Dapper (arts and culture), Bounce (mechanics), Stripes (leadership) and Luna (science). They are space cadets, explorers-in-training at a space academy on planet WotWot. They learn through play in their playroom that overlooks a space port floating above their planet and occasionally reach out for help from SpottyWot and DottyWot on planet Earth.[3]
Production[]
Kiddets was created and developed by children's author Martin Baynton in partnership with filmmaker Richard Taylor. Kiddets is co-produced by Pukeko Pictures and Hengxin Shambala Kids Cultural Industry Development Co., Ltd. (formerly Guangdong Huawen Century Animation Company) and is the first official children’s television co-production between New Zealand and China.[4]
The Kiddets characters and their space station are computer-animated with occasional clips from The WotWots over live-action footage by the Weta Workshop,[5] the visual effects company founded by Taylor and Rodger, known for its work on the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
Broadcast details[]
Country | Broadcaster | Screen date |
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New Zealand | TVNZ 2, TVNZ On-Demand, TVNZ HeiHei | 17 September 2018 |
Australia | ABC1, ABC2, ABC Kids | 3 April 2018.[6] |
China | China Central Television | December 2018 [7]
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- Animated preschool education television series
- 2010s preschool education television series
- Television series with live action and animation
- TVNZ 2 original programming
- New Zealand children's television series
- 2018 New Zealand television series debuts
- Computer-animated television series
- English-language television shows