Floogals | |
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Genre | Comic science fiction Educational Adventure Slapstick |
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Based on | Concept by Absolutely Cuckoo Ltd. |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 3[ citation needed ] |
No. of episodes | 130[ citation needed ] |
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Executive producers | James Cabourne Nigel Pickard |
Producers | Matt Porter Ceri Barnes |
Running time | 11 minutes |
Production companies | Nevision Studios Jellyfish Pictures Zodiak Kids Studios |
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Network | Nick Jr. (UK) Sprout (US) |
Release | January 15, 2016 – March 22, 2020 |
Floogals is a British live-action/animated television series aimed at preschoolers, produced by Nevision Studios, Jellyfish Pictures and Zodiak Kids, with concepts from Absolutely Cuckoo. Sprout, a children's TV channel in the United States which commissioned the series, also participated in the production. The series was developed by Ceri Barnes, Lee Walters, Nigel Pickard and Rick Gitelson, from an original idea by Dan Good (who created Waybuloo ). Production took place in London during 2014 and 2015 with all CGI animation by Jellyfish Pictures. [1] The series was first broadcast in the United States as a 'Sprout original series', and series 2 and 3 have been subsequently commissioned.[ citation needed ]
In September 2019, it was confirmed that series three would be the final series and that production had ended. The show aired its final episode on March 22, 2020.[ citation needed ]
The show centers on three four-inch tall extraterrestrials called Floogals who have come to Earth to study its inhabitants. Upon landing, a human boy, thinking their spaceship is a toy, hangs their craft onto the ceiling of his bedroom. The Floogals, however, don't seem to mind as they carry on with their studying.
While the show is set in a real Earthly place featuring live-action humans, the Floogals are CGI.
During each episode, the Floogals come across an object on Earth of which they try to gain knowledge. Once their study is done, they pass their research to the base on their home planet. After the report is sent, if it is liked, the floogals receive a sticker each featuring the object they have just researched.
The three protagonists consist of two male lavender colored and one female pink colored extraterrestrials in space suits and headgears. While they lack noses, they each have four trumpet-shaped colored blue, red and purple protrusions on their heads which are used for both hearing and smelling.
The human family whose house is where the Floogals are stationed at. Their faces are kept secretly hidden from the picture.
There are 136 episodes each 11 minutes.
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The series premiered in the United States on January 23, 2016, on what was known as Sprout, a specialty television channel owned by Comcast's NBCUniversal. [9] Upon the channel's relaunch as Universal Kids on 9 September 2017, the Sprout brand was used as a name of the programming block for preschoolers until 26 January 2018, when the block was renamed Universal Kids preschool. The series was also shown on NBC's NBC Kids television block until the block's cancellation in September 2016. [10]
In Canada, the series was broadcast on TVOntario's TVOKids block, and Knowledge Network. [11]
In the United Kingdom, the Scottish Gaelic version was broadcast on BBC Alba, [12] and the English version later premiered on Channel 5's Milkshake! block in July 2017.
In Australia, the series was broadcast on ABC2's ABC Kids block.
In Ireland, the series was broadcast on RTÉ and 3Kids.
In South Africa, the series was broadcast on eToonz.
In Arab countries, the series was broadcast on MBC 3.
In German, the series was broadcast on Super RTL.
In France, the series was broadcast on Piwi+.
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