At long last, basic cable subscribers in the U.S. can enjoy broadcasts of Aardman Animations’ Creature Comforts, a series created by Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit director Nick Park. An extension of Park’s Oscar-winning 1989 short film of the same name, the show features clay animals animated to audio interviews of ordinary British citizens. It debuts tonight, Dec. 2, at 8 p.m. PT/11 p.m. ET on BBC America.
Directed by Aardman’s Richard Goleszowski, the man behind cult favorite series Rex the Runt, the Creature Comforts series consists of nine half-hour episodes in which discussions of ordinary things take on whole different meanings when coming out of the mouths of various critters. The show debuted in the U.K. in 2003 and was a hit with BBC viewers of all ages, prompting Aardman to go into production on a second season.
Aardman recently announced plans to produce an Americanized version of Creature Comforts for U.S. television. The show will be one of a number of television projects the Bristol toon studio will develop with Gotham Group. Aardman is also producing a computer-animated kung fu chicken series titled Chop Socky Chooks. In addition, the company is working with Decode Ent. on Planet Sketch, a kids’ comedy that airs on Canada’s TELETOON, while the feature division produces the CG flick Flushed Away, its third feature collaboration with DreamWorks Animation.
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