CBBC's Pedro and Frankensheep are screening as part of the official programme at Annecy 2008. The episode selected is 'Fool Moon' which sees Pedro and Frank fiddling with the tides with disastrous consequences. The series was created by Phil Cooper at the BBC. We directed and co-wrote the episodes, with Greg designing the look, and me doing the voices of Frank and Hugo. We also wrote the music. Watch an episode on YouTube now or nine of the ten at CBBC.
With the fourth season of Doctor Who drawing to a close, I would just like to point out that this series was even more special because I was in it. Sort of. In Steven Moffat's opening episode about the library, the little girl is watching a cartoon - Pedro and Frankensheep - as designed by Greg and as voiced by me (Frank)!
There was Pedro full screen replacing the Doctor's image - nice! And there was Frank's voice chuntering away in the background. So in a very real sense I am a prime time actor and writer. Sort of.
Harry and Toto is a pre-school series created by Paul Shuttleworth at Handle and Spout productions. It's based on Aesop's fable about the Tortoise and the Hare and has been airing on Cbeebies since early June 2008. I was lucky enough to write several episodes for the show. It was great fun to work on and that seems to have been the feeling of everyone who worked on it... I met several of them at the launch party including Liz who wrote the music and Bob Golding who did all the male voices. Here's a clip...
Pedro and Frankensheep has been repeated on the digital CBBC channel about a million times since it's debut at the beginning of 2008, but last night 30 November 2009, the crazy scientist and his lovable robo-sheep finally made it onto BBC One. Wahoo! Follow the rest of the series on weekdays at 4.10pm.
