Sixteen South

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Sixteen South

Industry	Entertainment
Genre	Children's programmes
Founded	2007; 15 years ago (2007)
Headquarters	Belfast , United Kingdom
Key people	Colin Williams (Chief Exec)
Production output	Television Production
Brands	Pinkalicious & Peterrific Lily's Driftwood Bay
Website	www.sixteensouth.tv

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Sixteen South is a company that creates, produces and distributed television for children in every home in every country around the world.

Founded in Belfast in 2007 by Colin Williams, they currently employ over 100 people and have partnered with major names in children's entertainment, co-producing shows with Sesame Workshop, The Jim Henson Company and the BBC.

The company has won over 50 major international television awards including a BAFTA Award the Prix Jeunesse award, two Emmy nominations, a British Animation Award, RTS awards and many moreand in Business, they have been ranked among the UK's top indie producers by Televisual and been ranked at the top of the Deloitte UK and Ireland Fast 50 in 2013. Colin Williams was one of the 2013 finalists in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award programme.

Television shows[]

Pinkalicious & Peterrific[]

Pinkalicious & Peterrific is an animated TV series based on the Pinkalicious series of books that premiered on February 19, 2018 on PBS Kids.

Lily's Driftwood Bay[]

Lily's Driftwood Bay is a 52 x 7 minutes, mixed media animated show for 4-6 year olds. Season one premiered in Spring 2014 and airs around the world on: Nick Jr., Sprout (TV network), ABC, SVT, MTV3, RTÉ, HOP!, NRK, TVO and is being sold to other worldwide territories by The Jim Henson Company. Driftwood Bay is a special island that exists in the imagination of Lily, who creates a world of adventure and friendship from treasures she finds washed up on the beach.

Lily's Driftwood Bay is a unique series about making your own fun and adventures from the things you find. It’s about using your imagination and creativity to inspire an adventure or tell a story. Everything on Driftwood Bay has been created entirely from things washed up on the beach – from the characters to the props and landscapes. It came to life when children’s artist, Joanne Carmichael began to create characters from various things that she found washed up on the beach outside her cottage on the island of Arran in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Lily's Driftwood Bay received the following awards:

• CINE Golden Eagle - 2015
• Best Animated Series - Hugo Television Award, Chicago - 2015
• Broadcast Awards for Best Pre-School Programme - 2015

Pajanimals[]

Jim Henson's Pajanimals follows the amazing adventures of four cuddly musical puppets. Sixteen South partnered with The Jim Henson Company and PBS Kids Sprout to produce a full-length series of 52 x 11 minute episodes. Pajanimals debuted on Oct 10th, 2011 and airs globally on Sprout, NBC Kids, Disney Junior, ABC , TVNZ , Nick Jr., TG4 and Tiny Pop.

Pajanimals was designed to help parents and caregivers develop bedtime routines for their preschoolers. Through their imaginary journeys, the Pajanimals model the skills preschoolers need to move through their days and nights successfully. Along the way, the Pajanimals discover how cozy and safe night time can really be when accompanied by friendship and songs.

Pajanimals features four cuddly puppet characters. This inseparable quartet forms a night-time community in the comfort of their magical, shared bedroom - Sweetpea Sue the quiet pony, the excitable duck Squacky, the creative cow CowBella and the optimistic puppy Apollo - designed and built by the world-famous OSCAR and Emmy Award winning Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

Pajanimals received the following nominations/awards:

• Emmy nomination for Outstanding Pre-School Children's Series – 2013
• Emmy nomination for Outstanding Directing in a Children's Series - 2013
• Parent's Choice Recommended Seal – 2012

Big & Small[]

Big & Small is a highly successful children’s pre-school show featuring two best friends who share a house together. Sixteen South partnered with London-based Kindle Entertainment to give this hit show a new production home in Belfast and produce a third season which aired on BBC in 2011.

Each story revolves around the comedy of Big & Small’s contrasting approaches to life, and encourages young children to appreciate that people have many different ideas and opinions. The series combines the imagination of animation with the warmth of puppets - great stories packed with humour, laugh-out-loud moments and highly memorable songs.

Big & Small received the following awards:

• KidScreen award for Best Writing in a Children's Programme - 2013
• BAFTA for Best Interactive Service - 2009
• RTS Television Award for Best Children's Programme - 2009

Big City Park[]

Big City Park is a 26 x 14 minute preschool show, co-produced with BBC Scotland, that’s all about getting outside and having fun – whatever the weather. It was shot in Ormeau Park, Belfast and features Billy the badger, Dara the fox and their ageless friend, Ruairi who all live in the park - along with their human friend, May the park keeper who hosted the series. It was a BBC featured show for August 2010 and rated very highly with over 24% of the audience. It peaked with an audience share of 341,000 on 20 August with an average of 244,000 across the series. It was the second most watched show in its slot on CBeebies during August 2010 and the first show attracted 19,000 viewers on i Player alone.

Big City Park received the following awards:

• BAFTA Scotland for Best Children's Series - 2011
• IFTA for Best Youth/Children's programme, Ireland - 2011
• Silver Plaque - Hugo Television Award, Chicago - 2011
• CINE Golden Eagle - 2011
• Commended - Celtic Media Festival – 2011

Sesame Tree[]

Sesame Tree, a version of Sesame Street made entirely in Northern Ireland, is a children's television series produced by Sixteen South and Sesame Workshop. The first episode aired on BBC 2 in Northern Ireland on 5 April 2008 with the first series subsequently airing nationwide on BBC in August 2008. A second series was launched in November 2010 and broadcast on BBC from 22 November 2010.

Sesame Tree is aimed at young children and features strong curriculum and educational content as well as entertaining and engaging storytelling through a mix of traditional muppet interaction and live action films.

It features a new family of muppets - Potto the purple monster, Hilda the hare, Archie the red squirrel, Claribelle the red bird, Samson & Goliath the bookworms and the Weatherberries who all live inside the Sesame Tree - a magical question tree. The 14-minute show includes live action mini-documentary films, which look at life through the eyes of a 3-6 year old and classic clips from Sesame Street.

Sesame Tree received the following nominations/awards:

• Gold Plaque - Hugo Television Award, Chicago - 2011
• CINE Golden Eagle - 2011
• Winner - Hugo Television Award, Chicago - 2010
• CINE Golden Eagle – 2010

Upcoming television shows[]

Odo[]

This series is produced by Sixteen South in co-production with Polish newcomer animation studio Letko. This series focuses on the smallest owl in a forest camp who doesn’t let his size stop him from believing in himself and trying to prove he can do whatever he puts his mind to. ^[1]

Ivory Towers[]

This series is produced by Sixteen South. This series is about is set in a home for elderly animals, and revolves around a four-year-old elephant who regularly visits her grandfather.^[2]

Spaghetti Sisters[]

This 7 to 11-year old demographic series is produced by Sixteen South. This series tells the lightly serialized story of a pair of sisters and their plans to keep the family’s failing pasta restaurant in a remote mountain range afloat. ^[3]

Sharks In Shirts[]

This series, produced by Sixteen South, is about three teenage sharks whose mischief catches up with them when a chemistry experiment goes wrong and lands them on a school’s football team for the year. ^[4]

Super Snail[]

This series is produced by Sixteen South. This 2D series looks at an ordinary slug named Kevin who, despite being an administrator at a newspaper, is slow (as you expect a snail to be) and holds thing up in a fast pace news world. ^[5]

The Coop Troop[]

This CGi series is produced by Sixteen South, Chinese company Tencent and French studio Technicolor Animation Productions. This series centres around a group of barnyard animals on a mission to help others with their problems.^[6]

Awards and nominations[]

• 2013 – Deloitte Fast 500 EMEA Awards – 68th place
• 2013 – Deloitte Fast 50 Awards UK - 7th Place
• 2013 – Deloitte Fast 50 Awards Ireland - 2nd Place
• 2013 – Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award – Finalist
• 2013 - Aisling Awards – Best Business - Finalist
• 2013 - Emmy nomination for Outstanding Pre-School Children's Series - Pajanimals
• 2013 - Emmy nomination for Outstanding Directing in a Children's Series - Pajanimals
• 2013 - Kidscreen Award for Best Writing in a Children's Programme – Big & Small
• 2013 – Belfast Telegraph Business Award – Best Small/Medium Business - Finalist
• 2013 – Northern Ireland’s Leaders in Business – Colin Williams
• 2012 – Belfast Business Awards – Best Creative Business – Finalist
• 2012 – Belfast Business Awards – Best Business Innovation – Finalist
• 2012 – Belfast Business Awards – Best International Trade - Finalist
• 2012 – Rated in Televisual Top 100 Indie Producers
• 2012 - Parent's Choice Recommended Seal – Pajanimals
• 2012 – Deloitte Rising Star – Technology Fast 50 Awards
• 2011 – Rated in Televisual Top 100 Indie Producers
• 2011 - BAFTA Scotland for Best Children's Series – Big City Park
• 2011 - IFTA for Best Youth/Children's programme, Ireland – Big City Park
• 2011 - Hugo Television Award, Chicago - Silver Plaque – Big City Park
• 2011 - CINE Golden Eagle – Big City Park
• 2011 - Celtic Media Festival – Commended – Big City Park
• 2011 - Gold Plaque - Hugo Television Award, Chicago – Sesame Tree
• 2011 - CINE Golden Eagle – Sesame Tree
• 2011 – Deloitte Rising Star – Technology Fast 50 Awards
• 2010 – Rated in Televisual Top 100 Indie Producers
• 2010 - Hugo Television Award, Chicago – Winner – Sesame Tree
• 2010 - CINE Golden Eagle – Sesame Tree
• 2010 – Belfast Business Awards - Best Creative Industry - Winner

References[]

External links[]

• http://www.sixteensouth.tv/ Sixteen South website