BBC's Clangers returns in £5m 'New Age' remake The BBC is to remake the classic children's animation programme The Clangers as a hi-tech production with environmental politics at the fore. Original Clangers animator Peter Firmin and illustrator Daniel Postgate - the son of Clangers creator Oliver - will be involved in the £5m budget production. The new series will be …
Agreed, the fact that they were made from odds and ends added to their credibility, their warmth. Unfortunately CGI has the tendancy to remove the cuddly effect and replace it with "clean and perfect".....
Bagpuss et al shared the same idea imperfection and it is was made them so real..
You think The Italian Job was bad? Just wait until you get to the final paragraph of the BBC press release, er, news article: "The £5m production is already under way, and is being co-produced by US pre-school TV channel Sprout, which will broadcast the programme in North America."
was there actually anything Italian in it ?
well, the first 15 minutes are in Venice aren't they?
if you watch the whole film, it's because their idea to steal the whole security truck by exploding the road from under it, just like they stole the whole safe by exploding the floors beneath it "in the Italian job" which they did at the start of the film.
all that aside, it is undoubtably an abomination and besmirch upon the memory of the original film and should never have been allowed.
"in bloody America, was there actually anything Italian in it ?"
My dear boy you must understand that Americans sometimes claim ethnicity based upon fractional gene participation acquired in the great-great-great ancestry and beyond, and that some elliptical speech was being used.
The full title of the remake is "The Italian/American Job".
Actually, that doesn't work either since the star claims to be Irish (see first paragraph).
As you were.
I don't think there is anyone over the age of 20 who honestly thinks the remake is superior to the original provided:
a) They have *seen* the original - it is a bit rare in these here transatlantic parts
2) They understand the difference between chromakey and doing stuff for real.
Next up: The remake of The Flight of the Phoenix: Flogging offense or Hanging offense?
May I point you in the direction of CBeebies listings?
Me Too
Pingu
Charlie and Lola
Q pootle
Octonouats
Wibbly Pig
Rastamouse
Everythings Rosie
Tweenies
Alphablocks
Raa Raa the noisy Lion
Magic Hands
number jacks
What's the big idea
Something special
Lets play
Mr Blooms nursery
I can cook
The lingo show
Mister maker
Wooly and Tig
ZingZilla's
Ballamory
Tilly and Friends
Waybaloo
The Rhyme Rocket
Baby Jake
Get Well Soon
Kerwhizz
Chuggington
Nina and the Neurons
Sarah and Duck
Gigglebiz
Grandpa in my pocket
The Adventures of Abney and teal
In the Night Garden.
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Bloody hell, nothing but remakes in that list.
In fact only ones I could see are Tickabilla (Playschool), Bob the Builder and Postman Pat. Oh I guess bedtimes stories is Jackanory.
Two replies, one serious, one not - you decide which is which.
Pingu (not a BBC production) sets very poor family values.
Why??
Pingu is a Penguin.
Pingu's Dad is a Penguin.
Pingu's Mum is a Penguin.
Pingu's baby sister is a PUFFIN!!!!!
And since we saw Mum lay and hatch the egg, we can only presume she has been cheating on Pingu's Dad.
GiggleBiz; the name concerns me as it sounds like they are ripping off the good name of an educational software company that make a series of Nursery and Primary school games under the "Gigglebies" name; a bit like starting up a consumer electronics firm called "Appel"
Say both of them together and try and tell the difference.
> Pingu's baby sister is a PUFFIN!!!!!
According to Wikipedia (I'm SO not the target audience for Pingu...) Pinga is supposed to be a baby Emperor penguin.
A puffin and a penguin would have to go some to "get it on", given they are at pretty much different ends of the planet.
According to a 'retrospective' I saw a few years back, the original Clangers was scripted, and the dialogue (yes, all the whistling and wooOOooo'ing was a written script) had to get approval. No douby they'll lose all that wit & whimsy with some irrelevant heavy-handed electronic whistles, with voiceover propaganda.
environmental politics at the fore; it;s a KIDS programm, ffs. Stop with the lefty brainwashing in primary school, please.
It was "Oh Sod it! The bloody thing's stuck again!". It was broadcast, it is in the DVDs, and is the whistle produced by the voicebox of every cuddly Clanger sold.
In the episode where the Iron Chicken rampades her way through the Small Blue Planet there are, to the careful listener, at least a few "F"s and I'm fairly certain I heard a "C" in another episode.
10/10 for Postgate and Firmin for that wonderful bit of subversion; yes.
(P.S. Mr. Firmin's artwork is just as beautiful and as quirky as ever: http://www.peterfirmin.co.uk/)
> As I remember the myth/truth, it was "The bloody thing's stuck again" when a door failed to open,
> and it was cut from the original broadcast despite being whistled...
Possibly apocryphal, but I did get it from an interview with Oliver Postgate on the radio. The line was "Oh damn it, the bloody thing's stuck again", which the BBC forced them to change even though it was just done with whistles. The whistles were exactly the same, they just changed the words in the "script".
That was also the sample that was used in a toy.
No the wombles was all about the Thatcherite vision of a race of sub-humans genetically engineered (well they only had one female) troglodyte morlocks, never to be seen and clean up after the waste of the consumer society. It was typical facist BBC propaganda of the ultimate tory contempt of the working class.
I believe Chorlton and the wheelies directly influenced TopGear
They live on a lifeless grey husk with barely an atmosphere to speak off and an escape velocity so low clangers routinely managed to float off and needed rescue. The only other non-robotic complex life form left is a dragon-like creature that has to dig deep beneath the surface to survive on geothermal heat and microorganism-rich subterranian lakes, making only occasional trips to the surface to trade with the surface-dwellers. Their world is about as much of a planet as Pluto.
My boy watches it and that's all green design now with solar panels, wind farms, recycled material and even organic pineapple growing (I shit you not).
And conveniently none of his significant fleet of heavy plant bellows out as which as a whiff of black smoke.
Bastard.
Did you see the "Bob The Builder" Christmas special in which Santa Claus was revealed to be Bob's brother in a costume? On a Christmas show for small children. Fuck the BBC, really.
Compare to "Peppa Pig", where the end credits tell you that Father Christmas was played by himself.
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