What's Your News?
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What's Your News? | |
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Genre | Children's news |
Created by | Chris Dicker Jocelyn Stevenson Jon Burton |
Presented by | TT Animation |
Country of origin | United Kingdom Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 52 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Jon Burton |
Running time | 11 minutes |
Production companies | Original Pictures TT Animation |
Release | |
Original network | Nick Jr. CBC Television |
Picture format | 480p (SDTV) |
Audio format | Stereo |
Original release | February 25, 2006 August 25, 2012 | –
External links | |
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What's Your News? is a British-Canadian children's television program. It is billed as the first-ever news show for and about children, helping them deal with their transition into the world around them.[citation needed] The series use to be shown in all English countries. But as of 2019, it’s only airing in the U.S. It aired on in Canada CBC (stopped airing in 2019), in the UK on Nick Jr. (stopped airing in 2011), in the U.S. on PBS Kids Sprout and in Australia on ABC Television.
Overview[]
What's Your News? is a children's television series that concentrates on children's news. Hosted by animated news anchors, Grant the Ant and Antony the Aardvark, it follows the classic news programme format and features interviews with children, special reports, traffic updates, and weather reports.
Production[]
The series was created by Original Pictures and TT Animation; a small production company which is a subsidiary of TT Games, in turn part of Hollywood major film studio Warner Bros., a division of American conglomerate Time Warner. It was produced using a technologically innovative combination of Live action, Motion capture, and Performed Animation, in conjunction with director Robert Tygner and originating puppeteer William Todd-Jones. A total of 52 episodes were produced over an 18-month period.
It features both CGI content and CGI characters composited into filmed live action sequences. The series' production framework sidesteps many of the labor and time intensive activities normally associated with animated content creation. Character animations are obtained via acted motion capture methods, with instrumented puppetry rigs being used for facial and other auxiliary animations.
Cast and crew[]
- Created by Chris Dicker, Jocelyn Stevenson and Jon Burton
- Executive Producer: Jon Burton
- Puppeteers: William Todd-Jones, Susan Beattie, Brian Herring, Phil Eason, Richard Coombs, Mark Jefferis
- Creative Director & Producer: Jocelyn Stevenson
- Creative Director & Designer: Chris Dicker
- Director: Robert Tygner
- Producer: Giles Healy
- Associate Producer: Kath Gunn
- CG artist: Roger Robinson
Broadcast history[]
United States[]
- PBS Kids Sprout (March 25, 2006 – August 25, 2012)
United Kingdom[]
- Nick Jr. (January 25, 2009 – August 25, 2012)
Canada[]
- CBC Television (February 25, 2006 – August 25, 2012)
References[]
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- 2000s British animated television series
- 2000s British children's television series
- 2010 British television series debuts
- 2012 British television series endings
- 2000s Canadian animated television series
- 2000s Canadian children's television series
- 2010 Canadian television series debuts
- 2012 Canadian television series endings
- British children's animated television shows
- British computer-animated television series
- British preschool education television series
- British television series with live action and animation
- British television shows featuring puppetry
- Canadian children's animated television series
- Canadian computer-animated television series
- Canadian preschool education television series
- Canadian television series with live action and animation
- Canadian television shows featuring puppetry
- Nick Jr. original programming
- CBC Television original programming
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
- China Television original programming
- Fuji TV original programming
- English-language television shows
- Animated preschool education television series
- 2000s preschool education television series
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