Five Minutes More (TV series)

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Five Minutes More
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Genre Children's
Created by
  • Donna Andrews
  • Justine Flynn
Written byJan Page
Mellie Buse
Directed byMark Barnard
Voices of Nigel Plaskitt
Gillie Robic
Elizabeth Lindsay
Mark Jefferis
Louise Gold
Country of originAustralia
United Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes64
Production
Executive producers
  • Angus Fletcher
  • Martin Robertson
Producers
  • Donna Andrews
  • Justine Flynn
Running time5 minutes
Production companiesSnow River Media [1]
Buster Dandy Productions [1]
Original release
Network
Release23 August (2006-08-23) –
21 November 2006 (2006-11-21)

Five Minutes More is a children's television series co-produced between Australia and the United Kingdom. It was produced by Snow River Media and Buster Dandy Productions, and developed by The Jim Henson Company. The series premiered on ABC on 23 August 2006. Broadcast on the V-me in United States of America. [1]

Contents

Synopsis

The show starts off with one of the five animals telling a story: Faraway, an aardvark; Georgie, a penguin; Florrie, a dog; Sam, a monkey; and Louisa, a polar bear. Each story has a moral to it.

Production

The programme was announced on 8 December 2005 during ABC Enterprises' Children's Television Special Project, when Australian broadcaster The Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Disney Channels Worldwide comissioned an Australian/British puppet television series entitled Five Minutes More for ABC's channel ABC2 (now ABC Family) and Disney's Playhouse Disney channels in Europe, the series would be created by Bambaloo creators Donna Andrews and Justine Flynn while their Australian television production outfit Buster Dandy Productions (which would eventually merge with Sticky Pictures an animation studio that Buster Dandy Productions' founder Donna Andrews co-founded with Stu Connolly four years later on 27 January 2010 [2] ) would produce with the duo would also serve as producers for the upcoming television series Five Minutes More alongside British production company Snow River Media with its founder & former Jim Henson Television executive Angus Fletcher would serve as executive producer while ABC's distribution arm ABC Enterprises would handle worldwide distribution to the upcoming series. [3]

The puppet characters for the series was originally intended to be made at The Jim Henson Company's creature shop based in London, England the series was originally set to be produced by The Jim Henson Company, but however, The Jim Henson Company shuttered it's UK production operations in 2004 a year before the series was made and closed its London-based Creature Shop a year layer in July 2005 due to tax incentives in the UK production market five months before the series was announced [4] , therefore London-based puppet production studio Solution Studios (now Puppet Magic Studio), a studio founded by Daniel Byrne assumed the role of producing, designing & building the puppet characters for the upcoming series with Paul Jomain (who previosly made puppets for Bambaloo and Jim Henson's other productions Mopatop’s Shop and The Hoobs ) would make costumes for them [5] [1] All sets are cardboard and costumes are made with quilt fabric the same type on the bed they sit on telling these stories. The quilt is specially made with square pictures mostly based on a stories that is about to or has been already told. The series was shot in eight weeks in Australia, and dubbed in Britain. [6]

Episodes

#Title
1"The Three Musicians"
2"Snowy Story"
3"Neptune's Visit"
4"Make Me a Rainbow"
5"Frown Town"
6"The Three Elephants"
7"Messy Mountain"
8"Jealous Jack"
9"One, Two, Three Jump"
10"Bingle-Bongle-Boo"
11"The Surprise Laugh"
12"My Own Special Picture"
13"I Can't Go to Sleep"
14"Someone to Sing to Me"
15"Cooking Up a Storm"
16"I Want a Frizzle"
17"The Queen's Dance"
18"The Last Orange"
19"Magic My Way"
20"Land Ahoy!"
21"Copy Parrot"
22"Monkeys Don't Eat Soup"
23"Let Me Tell You a Story"
24"There's a Dragon in My Bed"
25"The Greedy Elf"
26"The Big Gold Cup"
27"The Best Birthday Party Ever"
28"All Together Now!"
29"The Giant Who Had No Manners"
30"Sebastian's Spring Fair"
31"At Least It Isn't Elephants"
32"The Princess Who Couldn't Choose"
33"What Noise Am I Making?"
34"Umbrellas Up! Umbrellas Down!"
35"The Friendly Caterpillar"
36"Mr Hammer and Mr Spanner"
37"Pulling Together"
38"The Lost Voice"
39"Uncle Miscellania"
40"The Mayor's Parade"
41"It's All in the Mix"
42"I Want to Be Bigger"
43"Clubbing Together"
44"Saved by the Wool"
45"For the Love of Trees"
46"Who Wants a Hat?"
47"The Very Best Present"
48"Sometimes it's Good to Be Slow"
49"Watch It Grow"
50"Playing by the Rules"
51"The Two Brave Knights"
52"The Sun Will Always Shine"
53"Lighthouse Land"
54"Follow Me! Follow Me!"
55"Three Wishes for Faraway"
56"The Magic Bear"
57"Blow, Faraway, Blow!"
58"The Magic of Music"
59"The Fairacre Friends"
60"Little Gnome Upon the Wall"
61"How Does Your Garden Grow?"
62"Plump Plum Pies!"
63"Dog in a Box"
64"Little Tree"

DVDs

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Reeve-Crook, Antony (8 September 2006). "New puppet show heads ABC's Mipcom slate". C21Media. Retrieved 3 January 2010.
  2. ↑ "Two Australian Kids' Production Outfits to Merge". Worldscreen. 27 January 2010.
  3. ↑ "Disney onboard UK/Oz puppet series". C21Media. 8 December 2005.
  4. ↑ "UK Production Environment Leads to Closure of London Division of Jim Henson's Creature Shop". The Jim Henson Company.
  5. ↑ "About Paul".
  6. ↑ Houston, Melinda (20 August 2006). "Taking a softly, softly approach". The Age . Retrieved 3 January 2010.
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