Industry | Animation |
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Founded | 2002 |
Divisions | JAM Media Dublin JAM Media Belfast |
Website | www |
JAM Media is an Irish animation studio based in Dublin, Ireland with production facilities in Belfast, UK [1] [2] . They are best known for creating the Children's Television series', Roy (TV series) for CBBC, and Becca's Bunch for Nick Jr.
Jam was founded in 2002 by Animator friends Mark Cumberton, John Rice and Alan Shannon in Dublin. [3] [4]
In 2013 they opened a second studio in Belfast, Northern Ireland [5] to help produce their own shows. In 2024 the Belfast studio also became the base of their services division, offering animation services to third parties. [1]
Show | Year(s) | Co-production with | Network(s) | Notes |
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Pic Me [6] | 2004 | RTE | 104 episodes x 5mins | |
Funky Fables | 2008-09 | Boulder Media | CBBC | 26 episodes x 11mins |
Roy (TV series) | 2009-15 | CBBC, RTE, ABC3 | 4 Seasons, 52 episodes x 28mins, BAFTA Award winning series [7] | |
Baby Jake | 2011 | Darrall Macqueen | Cbeebies | 52 episodes x 11mins |
Tilly and Friends | 2012 | Walker Books | Cbeebies | 52 episodes x 11mins |
The Roy Files | 2015 | RTE, CBBC, ABC Me | 15 episodes x 15mins, | |
Zig and Zag (TV series) | 2016 | Double Z Enterprises, Flickerpix | CBBC, RTEjr | 26 episodes x 11mins, 22 shorts x 4mins |
Little Roy (TV series) | 2016 | CBBC, CBeebies, RTE | 52 episodes x 11mins | |
Becca's Bunch | 2018 | Nick Jr | 52 episodes x 11mins | |
Jessy and Nessy | 2020 | Amazon Prime | 40 episodes x 11mins | |
Nova Jones [8] | 2021 | CBBC | 30 episodes x 24mins |
Film Name | Year | Co-production with | Notes |
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A Greyhound of a Girl [9] [10] | 2023 | Fabrique d'images | An animated adaption of the book written by Roddy Doyle |
Short Film Name | Year | Co-production with | Notes |
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Badly Drawn Roy [11] | 2006 | ||
The Wiremen [12] | 2018 | Winner of the James Horgan Award for Best Animation at the Galway Film Fleadh 2018 | |
Featherweight | 2019 | ||
The Voyage | |||
Candlelight | |||
Worry World | 2024 | Winner of the James Horgan Award for Best Animation at the Galway Film Fleadh 2024 |
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