BBC Unveils Trio Of Animation Series

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BBC Unveils Trio Of Animation Series As It Steps Up Search For British ‘Simpsons’

BBC Unveils Trio Of Animation Series As It Steps Up Search For British ‘Simpsons’

The BBC has unveiled the trio of projects that it hopes could fulfil the search for a British Simpsons. Coming from the Ignite animation program, the corporation has greenlit Duck and Frog, The Underglow and Captain Onion’s Buoyant Academy for Wayward Youth. The former is a slacpstick comedy with a modern British setting and an energetic anarchic sense of humor, The Underglow is a preschool series with little creatures and characters that come out to play when the sun goes down and the latter follows Marvin and his friends on their boat-based boarding school, the Unsinkable II. The projects were greenlit after producers submitted ideas to the BBC and have been chosen following an 18-month development process. BBC Children’s boss Patricia Hidalgo has made clear her ambitions for UK animation and used her first setpiece to say she was seeking a British verison of The Simpsons two years ago. “The reason we chose these three is because they all have a clear sense of the audience they are trying to target and a strong creative vision,” she said. “The ideas, stories and characters felt truly British and very original but they hold a sense of the familiar which is what usually makes a show successful amongst kids.”