Aardman Animations, the U.K. toon shop behind the Academy Award-winning Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, is introducing its new preschool series, The Flowerheads, to international buyers at this year’s MIP-TV in Cannes, France, in April.
Created by award-winning director Nick Mackie, the 52×5 Flash-animated series revolves around the characters Daisy, Twig and Poppy, who embark on enchanting journeys of discovery in a colorful and magical world. The Flowerheads learn about their surroundings as they play together and meet new characters. The show employs a mixture of narration and simple to help explain the natural world to young viewers and involve them in their games and adventures.
The Flowerheads already been picked up by CBeebies in the U.K. for broadcast in 2007. Aardman’s broadcast division is also producing the kids’ show Planet Sketch for CiTV, and is developing Chop Socky Chooks for Cartoon Network and Teletoon, and Shaun the Sheep for CBBC and WDR. In addition, the studio is hard at work on a second season of the clay-animated Creature Comforts series, which it is also tailoring for U.S. audiences for a primetime slot on CBS.
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