The Tweenies
Format	Children's
Starring	Coleen Daley Justin Fletcher Bob Golding Sally Priesig Emma Weaver Sinead Rushe Simon Grover Jenny Hutchinson Chris Beck Alan Riley
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	originally English (see article for dubbings into other languages)
No. of episodes	390
Production
Executive producer(s)	Judy Whitfield Clare Elstow
Producer(s)	Kay Benbow Robin Carr Iain Lauchlan Will Brenton
Running time	20 minutes approx.
Distributor	BBC
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC
Audio format	Stereo
First shown in	BBC
Original airing	1999
External links
[The Tweenies Official website]
IMDb profile

The Tweenies is a television programme aimed at young children, broadcast on the BBC. The programme is set in a nursery attended by the four Tweenies themselves: Milo, Jake, Bella and Fizz. They are supplemented by two adults, Max and Judy, and two dogs, Doodles and Izzles. The Tweenies is a television programme aimed at children, broadcast on the BBC. The programme is set at a daycare centre, and the four Tweenies themselves are Milo and Jake (both boys) and Bella and Fizz (both girls), played by actors inside suits made from the same material as fleece... Justin Fletcher is a childrens TV personality in the UK. Justin Fletcher is a very popular presenter and actor who appears on the BBC preschool television channel CBeebies and performs a number of roles, both speaking and performing. ... Emma Weaver is a British television actress and voice actress. ... Simon Grover is a British actor and writer. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Christophe Beck interviewed on a Buffy The Vampire Slayer DVD featurette Christophe Beck (born 1972 in Montreal, Canada), also credited as Chris Beck, is a Canadian film and television composer. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Iain Lauchlan is a Scottish actor and playwright. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... This article is about the year. ... This article is an overview article about the Crown chartered British Broadcasting Corporation formed in 1927. ... Nursery can refer to: Nursery (children), a place for the temporary care of children in the absence of their parents Nursery (horticulture), a place where young plants or trees are raised Nursery, a place where immature stages of insects are reared Nursery school, a daycare facility for preschool-age children...

The original prototypes for the Tweenies characters were designed by Sally Preseig of Mimics Productions; they were later re-scaled into two sizes for the characters shown on the series. In addition, Sally also designed the character costumes and was co-constructor/developer for the Tweenies' full-size puppets. The costume fabric comes from the US and was imported and dyed into their present colours; it is about the same thickness as fleece jumpers.  [1]

The Tweenies are a production of Tell-Tale Productions (now owned by Entertainment Rights) in association with the BBC. Animation for the show was produced by A Productions, an animation studio based in Bristol, England, with Ealing Animation providing some animation in a few early episodes. Computer animation for the series was provided by Clockwork Digital, with Ben Mars animating Mungo, the computer creature who appears in some later episodes. Entertainment Rights Plc is a global media company, listed on the London Stock Exchange. ... This article is about the English city. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... See also: Computer-generated imagery Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers. ... Mungo may refer to: Saint Mungo, also known as Kentigern, patron saint of Glasgow, Scotland The Mungo division of Cameroon The Mungo people of Cameroon The Mungo River of Cameroon The Mung bean Mungo National Park in Australia The Mungo Man, remains of a prehistoric human found in South Australia...

The show includes a "Tweenie Clock", with five circular lights arranged in a pentagonal shape with the lights denoting "news time" (orange), "messy time" (blue: art, sticking, painting), "song time" (yellow: generally nursery rhymes or children's classics), "telly time" (green; in some later episodes, this is also used when they use the computer) and "story time" (red). "Surprise Time" is a special time determined when all five lights glow. A button at the centre of the clock is pressed to select the activity that will be undertaken next. This is an article about the geometrical shape. ...

It is currently being shown on CBeebies, the BBC's children's channel for young children. CBeebies is a British television channel produced by the BBC and aimed at children six years and under. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ...

Like a number of other CBeebies programmes, a live stage version of the show has toured in the UK. The newest tour, Enchanted Toyshop, toured the British Isles during 2007. Between 2003 and 2006, there was also a live version of The Tweenies shown regularly at Alton Towers in the Cred Street section aimed at younger children. Alton Towers is the United Kingdoms most famous theme park, attracting 2. ...

In 2000, The Tweenies won two awards: Best Pre-School Educational Programme (Royal Television Society) and Best Live Action Pre-School Programme (BAFTA Awards). The Royal Television Society is a British-based society for the discussion, analysis and preservation of television in all its forms, past, present and future. ... The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...

The Tweenies were created by Will Brenton and Iain Lauchlan, a pair with a track record of being involoved in BBC children's programming. Iain Lauchlan was a presenter on Play School, Fingermouse and Playdays, meeting Brenton, a director, writer and also a presenter, during the latter. Together they started producing two of the Playdays strands before forming their own production companies Tell-Tale Productions and, more recently, Wish Films. Iain Lauchlan is a Scottish actor and playwright. ... Play School was a long-running British series. ... Fingermouse is the name of a British childrens television programme made by the BBC in 1985. ... Playdays (known as Playbus until 25 December 1989) was a childrens television programme from the United Kingdom. ... Look up director in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... A television presenter is a British term for a person who is known for introducing or hosting television programmes. ... Playdays (known as Playbus until 25 December 1989) was a childrens television programme from the United Kingdom. ...

They also created The Fun Song Factory, Boo!, BB3B!, Jim Jam and Sunny, Basil Hair The Squirrel and Entertainment Right's The Magical Live of Toys. Fun Song Factory is a British pre school childrens show on CITV aimed at youngsters. ... Boo! is a childrens television program shown in the UK on the CBeebies channel, and occasionally on BBC One or BBC Two. ...

Original cast

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Actors

• Bella- Tamsin Heatley
• Fizz - Jenny Hutchinson/Angela Reynolds/Francesca Anderson(In that order)
• Milo - C H Beck/Matthew Lyons/Kate Ryan
• Jake - Samantha Dodd/Esther Collins
• Max and Judy - Simon Grover
• Doodles - Alan Riley
• Judy (outside) - Sinead Rushe
• Izzles - Fiona Watkins

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Voices

• Fizz and Izzles - Coleen Daley
• Jake and Doodles - Justin Fletcher
• Max and Milo - Bob Golding
• Bella - Sally Preisig (episodes 1-130)/Emma Weaver (episodes 131-390)
• Judy - Sinead Rushe (Matthew Lyons in some later episodes)

Some of these voice actors are recognisable as actors from other BBC series. For example, Justin Fletcher is "Justin" from Tikkabilla, and Sally Preisig is "Peggy Patch" from Playdays. The Tweenies is a television programme aimed at children, broadcast on the BBC. The programme is set at a daycare centre, and the four Tweenies themselves are Milo and Jake (both boys) and Bella and Fizz (both girls), played by actors inside suits made from the same material as fleece... Justin Fletcher is a childrens TV personality in the UK. Justin Fletcher is a very popular presenter and actor who appears on the BBC preschool television channel CBeebies and performs a number of roles, both speaking and performing. ... Emma Weaver is a British television actress and voice actress. ... Tikkabilla is a UK childrens television programme, shown on BBC1, BBC2 and on the CBeebies channel. ... Playdays (known as Playbus until 25 December 1989) was a childrens television programme from the United Kingdom. ...

The Tweenies abroad

In mid-2003, The Tweenies was introduced to US audiences via the cable channel Noggin, after briefly being shown on sister channel Nickelodeon. Similar to Bob the Builder, American-accented voices were used, and words specific to British English were changed (for example, "telly time" is renamed "video time" and "news time" is renamed "circle time"). However, by early 2004, due to pressure to introduce other new shows on the channel it was no longer shown daily and was only shown intermittently at a rather early 6 am EST. This greatly diminished its US viewership and on January 1, 2006 the show was permanently pulled from Noggin's line-up and thus is no longer shown in the United States; however, the Noggin web link from super ink fart helm phone cat is still active. Noggin is a cable television network in the United States, intended to help children learn. ... Nickelodeon may refer to: Nickelodeon movie theater, an early 20th century form of small, neighborhood movie theaters Nickelodeon (film), a 1976 film directed by Peter Bogdanovich Nickelodeon (TV channel), a cable TV network whose demographic is primarily children and pre-teens in the United States. ... Bob the Builder is a childrens television clay character created by Keith Chapman. ... British English (BrE, BE, en-GB) is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere in the Anglophone world. ... is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In Canada, the show has aired in both English and French on BBC Kids and Radio-Canada, respectively. Radio-Canada dropped regular broadcasts of the series in mid-August 2005, but aired 2 holiday episodes on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve 2005. In April 2006, Radio-Canada brought the series back on Sunday mornings as part of its La petite minute pre-school program block for the spring-summer 2006 season. In early June 2006, the network added weekday airings as well; however, the weekday shows were dropped later that month, returning to the line-up in mid-July. On August 31, 2006, the network aired two Tweenies episodes that day, one in its usual 6 am (Eastern) time slot and a second episode at 7 am. The Monday-Friday showings were ended on September 4, 2006, leaving the Thursday 7 am broadcast as the only weekday program. As of September 16, 2006, the weekend broadcast was moved to Saturdays at 6 am EST. The Saturday broadcast repeated the Thursday episode, delayed two weeks (with a few exceptions). During the 2006 holiday period, the Saturday programme was pre-empted for two weeks due to special holiday progamming, but picked up at the usual point when it returned. The episode "Christmas Morning" was broadcast December 21, 2006 and was replayed on Christmas Day 2006 with the regular rotation returning the following week. The Thursday and Saturday broadcasts ended on April 5 and 7, 2007 respectively. During the 2007 holiday season, "Christmas Morning" was rebroadcast on December 21st, 27th and 30th. As of January 7, 2008, Radio-Canada airs the series Mondays and Tuesdays at 6:01am EST. BBC Kids is a Canadian category 2 digital cable television channel owned by Alliance Atlantis and BBC Worldwide. ...

In addition, the show has been dubbed into German, Welsh, Swedish, Estonian, Arabic, Russian, Indonesian, and Slovak, among others. The Spanish version of the series appears in two versions: a Madrid-dubbed version for Spain and a Chile-dubbed version for Latin America. Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... Arabic redirects here. ... This article is about the Spanish capital. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ...

Current international broadcasters

• Zimbabwe: Star Kidz, Playhouse Disney, Kidz.Net, Nickelodeon
• Canada: BBC Kids, Radio-Canada
• Ireland: RTÉ2
• United Arab Emirates: E-junior, City 7 TV
• Netherlands: Nederland 3 (Z@ppelin children's TV block)
• Belgium: Ketnet
• France: TF1
• Europe/Middle East/Africa: BBC Prime
• Malaysia/Brunei/Indonesia: Astro TVIQ
• Hungary: Duna Televízió
• Estonia: ETV
• Singapore/India: CBeebies
• India: Pogo
• Poland: CBeebies

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Dubbing casts

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• Bella - Alyson Court
• Fizz - Stephanie Rothenburg
• Jake - Dieter Jansen

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• Bella - Sylvie Jacob
• Fizz - Fily Keita
• Jake - Guillaume Lebon
• Judy and Izzles - Marie-Martine
• Max and Doodles - Bernard Tiphaine
• Milo - Yann Le Madic

Spanish (Latin America dub)
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• Bella - Amaya Forch Barry
• Doodles - Jaime Lillo
• Fizz - Gianina Tolloni/Margarita M.
• Jake - Rosario Dawson/Andrea Perez
• Judy - Sara Pantoja
• Max - Omar
• Milo - Pablo Ausensi/Oscar Urrejola

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• Bella - Maria del Mar Jorcano
• Fizz - Pilar Martin
• Jake - Sara Vivas
• Judy - Yolanda Perez Segoviano
• Max and Doodles - Juan Luis Rovira
• Milo - Margarita Ponce

Welsh dub

• Judy - Jennifer Vaughan
• Max and Doodles - John Ogwen

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• Bella - Brigitte Nijman (season 1), Lizemijn Libgott (remainder)
• Doodles - Reinder van der Naald
• Fizz - Anneke Beukman
• Jake - Dieter Jansen
• Judy - Karin von As
• Max - Rik Hoogendoorn (season 1), Bartho Braat (remainder)
• Milo - Dennis Kivit

Polish dub

• Bella- Lucyna Malec
• Doodles- Jarosław Boberek
• Fizz- Katarzyna Łaska
• Jake- Mateusz Narloch
• Judy- Joanna Węgrzynowska
• Max- Marek Barbaciewicz
• Milo- Kuba Molęda

Videos/DVDs

• Song Time! (1999)
• Ready to Play/Song Time! (combined DVD, 2000)
• Merry Tweenie Christmas (2000)
• Party Games, Laughs & Giggles (2000)
• Song Time is Fab-a-Rooney (2001)
• Songtime is Fab-a-Rooney/Song Time 2 (combined DVD, 2001)
• Enchanted Toyshop (2001)
• Song Time 2 (2001)
• Songs & Surprises (2001)
• Tweenies Live! (2001)
• Animal Friends (2001)
• Animal Friends/Party Games, Laughs & Giggles (combined DVD, 2002)
• Colours are Magic (2002)
• It's Messy Time (2002)
• Everybody Panto (2002)
• Doodles' New Friend (2002)
• Tweenies Live!: The Christmas Present (2002)
• Night-Time Magic (2002)
• Party Games, Laughs & Giggles (2002; special edition for Marks & Spencer with added footage)
• Music is Pop-a-Rooney! (2003)
• Let's Play (2003)
• Party Games, Laughs & Giggles/Let's Play (combined DVD, 2003)
• Jungle Adventure (2004)
• Let's All Make Music (2004)
• Fizz! (2005)
• It's Christmas (2005; combined DVD of Enchanted Toyshop and Everybody Panto)
• Song Time: The Ultimate Collection (2006; combined DVD of Song Time!, Song Time 2, Songtime is Fab-a-Rooney and Songs & Surprises)
• Ultimate Christmas Collection (2006; combined DVD of Enchanted Toyshop, Merry Tweenie Christmas, Tweenies Live!: The Christmas Present and Everybody Panto, with special Christmas material added)

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Episodes

Main article: List of Tweenies episodes

The Tweenies is a television programme aimed at children, broadcast on the BBC. The programme is set at a daycare centre, and the four Tweenies themselves are Milo and Jake (both boys) and Bella and Fizz (both girls), played by actors inside suits made from the same material as fleece...

External links

• The Tweenies at bbc.co.uk.