TV Compositions
52 x 11 minutes, 2-to 6-year olds.
Lucy has some very unusual neighbours. Each night, thanks to the big friendly
giraffe, Georgina, she meets the animals in the zoo and hears their stories.
AUTHOR An Vrombaut DIRECTORS An Vrombaut, Albert Pereira Lazaro MUSIC Rowland Lee
CO-PRODUCERS Millimages / Zoo Lane Productions / ZDF
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APRIL 2000
"64 Zoo Lane" won the Pulcinella award for "Best Children's
Series" at the international television animation festival "Cartoons
on the Bay".
English success for "64 Zoo Lane"
"64 Zoo Lane" was broadcast on the BBC from mid-April onwards. The
first episode was watched by 1.5 million viewers (45% of the audience in the
4 - 10 year old target age group). The series is currently being shown on
Fox Family Channel in the United States within the "It's Itsy Bitsy Time"
block and was favourably reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.
JUNE 2000
"64 Zoo Lane" selected by Annecy Festival 2000
The series was shown as part of the panorama selection of television programmes
at the Annecy Festival in June 2000.
NOVEMBER 2000
Children's BAFTA Award and New York International Children's Film Festival
Nominations
This year the series "64 Zoo Lane" was nominated for the Children's
BAFTA Award in Great Britain in the pre-school category and also for the New
York International Children's Film Festival that will take place next February.
March 2002
Wins best pre -school animation at the British animatinion Awards.'Bob the
Builder' and 'Bill and Ben' were also moninated.
20 x 15 minute episodes........
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"IT COULD BECOME ADDICTIVE." - London Times "VILE, VULGAR, AND HILARIOUSLY FUNNY!" - The Star
'Where delinquency, graffiti, loose morals, cat sick, dismal sex, miserable cows, hidden sexuality and women in big pants reside in harmony!
The TROMA Team is proud to bring you to the depths of London, where a large, dilapidated Victorian house is home to the extraordinary characters of the homegrown animated adult soap opera CRAPSTON VILLAS, from the British team that created the critically acclaimed puppet series, Spitting Image.
Each episode focuses on the bizarre lives of London's most chaotic collection of flat-dwellers: Sophie and Jonathan live inharmoniously in Flat B where she reluctantly supports his ineffectual (and often stoned) attempts to become "the next big thing" in films. In between resenting him and restraining their vicious cat Fatso, Sophie also plays host to the lodger from Hell, Flossie, an out-of-work actress who specialises in baby voices and flirting with Jonathan.
Flat C is home for the Stenson family, headed by single parent Marge, who is broke, blonde (with a root problem) and hell-bent on finding a new boyfriend. Her son is 16-year old Woody Stenson, who spends most of his time concentrating on sexual discovery (but only with himself), battling with kid sister Samantha and her best mate Betty, and avoiding their kleptomaniac grandmother Enid, whose favourite pastime is overdosing.
Completing the household are the owners of Flat D, Robbie and Larry, a gay couple much feted by Flossie. Larry, an art lecturer, favours large moustaches and a pompous manner, while the younger Robbie loves leather but worries about his fanatically religious mother, Delia, who lives in the fond hope of seeing her son married before long.
CREDITS: VOICES Alison Steadman, Jane Horrocks, Liz Smith, Lesley Sharpe, Alistair McGowan, John Thompson. DIRECTOR Sarah Kennedy MUSIC Rowland Lee/Alex Russell PRODUCER Richard Bennet for Spitting Image Productions.
The music score features performances from the Maggini string quartet and live theremin. Jane Watkins assisted in preparing some of the music cues for the first 10 episodes, and Rowland’s long-time sound engineer Alex Russell contributed some of his own dance music for the club scenes and other sequences.'
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52 x 5 minute episodes.
PABLO - THE LITTLE RED FOX is a mischievous
little fox cub that lives in the city with his family at the end of a garden
underneath an apple tree. His adventures take place with his brother Pumpkin
and his sister Poppy. The city becomes their playground. They explore everything
from carwashes to fairgrounds, rummaging in bins as they chase after tasty
morsels. Pablo’s adventurous spirit is always getting him into scrapes,
but he often ends up the hero despite his failings.
'Pablo is the Peter Rabbit of the fox world: I was brought up with, and was
very inspired by, the works of Beatrix Potter’ says Hannah. HANNAH GIFFARD
& KEITH TUTT - RED FOX PRODUCTIONS
DIRECTOR Albert Pereira Lazaro MUSIC
Rowland Lee
PABLO - THE LITTLE RED FOX has now been sold around
the world. It was first broadcast in September 1999 on primetime CBBC1 and
is currently showing on BBC Choice and the Disney channel in the USA.
Videos are being distributed by BuenaVista (the video distribution
arm of Disney).
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Red Fox Productions and Millimages won a prestigious international award at the recent CHILDREN’S BAFTA AWARDS for their TV animation series ‘PABLO - THE LITTLE RED FOX’. The BBC1 series, which is now showing on the Disney Channel in the United States and in many other countries around the world, was honoured at a glitzy show business ceremony at the London Hilton on Sunday 12th November. PABLO beat off the highly respected ‘HEY ARNOLD’ and ‘BEAR IN THE BIG BLUE HOUSE’ (the latter by Jim Henson Productions).
JUNE 2000 - Selected at the Annecy Film Festival.
NOVEMBER 2000 - Won Best Animation Series in the International Category at
the Children's BAFTA awards.
FEBRUARY 2001 - Series selected for the 2001 New York International Children's
Film Festival.
Captain Abercromby 
26 x15-minute programmes
About a boy's adventures in a fantasy land populated by sea creatures and pirates, its creator, the artist-illustrator John Gorman approached Wark Clements with the concept for “Captain Abercromby”. Although children’s programming was a new field for Wark Clements, the company had great faith in John's vision and put its own skills and reputation behind the project. The 1.2 Million Pounds needed to fund the production in partnership with the BBC having been secured, the series went into production in the spring of 2001 and commenced broadcasting, on CBBC2, on January 4th 2002.
In addition to composing all of the music for this series, Rowland also wrote the lyrics for the title song and some of the songs within the series.
CREDITS: DIRECTOR Doug Williams, PRODUCERS Ken Anderson, Dominique Middleton, WRITER Keith Brumpton, MUSIC Rowland Lee, LYRICS Rowland Lee/Keith Brumpton.
Engie Benjy
26 x 11 minute episodes
Alongside “Bill and Ben” and “Andy Pandy”, Cosgrove Hall is hard at work on Engie Benjy, a brand-new CITV show for pre-school children.
CONCEPT ORIGINATOR/CO-PRODUCER Bridget Appleby, PRODUCER Debbie Peers, DIRECTOR Chris Taylor, TITLE SONG Clint Boone, INCIDENTAL MUSIC Rowland Lee.
Wilf the Witch's Dog
26 x 10-minute episodes.
Copyright - Skyptonite / RTV / Cinecartoon / Jade Animation
This series features Wilf's adventures and experiences as he learns magic, helps the good witch Weenie become a better witch, and continually proves that you don't have to be a cat, bat, rat, toad, or hairy spider to be the most loyal and useful good witch's pet ever!
Wilf is the creation of Frank Rodgers - one of Britain's most popular children's writers and illustrators - and is the star of the Witch's Dog book series that is published by Penguin. In 1999 'The Witch's Dog', the first book in the series, was Colour Young Puffin's best-selling title as well as being listed in the Book Trust top 100 children's books 1999, a position held by the next book in the series, 'The Witch's Dog and the Magic Cake', this year. The fourth book in the series, 'The Witch's Dog and the Crystal Ball' was published earlier this year.
The animated version of Wilf the Witch's Dog began production in January 2001.
CREDITS: DIRECTORS: Wayne Thomas and Andy Janes, PRODUCERS:
Skryptonite, RTV, CineCartoon and Jade Animation, PRE-PRODUCTION: Red Kite
Productions, ANIMATION: Jade Animation, POST-PRODUCTION: Synchro Films / Cinecartoon,
MUSIC: Rowland Lee
The BAFTA award-winning “Henry's Cat” was created in 1982 by Stan Hayward. According to Stan, there isn't really a Henry, he just represented an absent father. This is all well and good, but if it hadn’t been for the sterling work of the following people “Henry's Cat” would have remained a twinkle in his eye. CREATOR Stan Hayward, WRITER Stan Hayward, NARRATOR Bob Godfrey, ANIMATORS: Malcolm Hartley, Drew Mandigo, Kevin Baldwin, Paul Stone, CAMERA: Derek Phillips, EDITOR: Sean Lenihan, MUSIC: John Hyde, Rowland Lee, PRODUCTION Mike Hayes, PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR Bob Godfrey.
Rowland
composed the incidental music for the final four 15-minute "specials"
of Henry's Cat. As a admirer of Bob Godfrey’s work since childhood,
Rowland was thrilled to be able to achieve one of his dreams by working with
the person whose programmes had consistently amused and delighted him in the
old 6.55 BBC1 animation “slot”. These “specials” won
a Golden Globe Award in the USA, where they are sometimes shown as two 30-minute
programmes with a special “intermission” link
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