Ruff-Ruff, Tweet and Dave | |
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Genre | Educational |
Created by | Tony Collingwood |
Directed by | Tony Collingwood Andrea Tran |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom Singapore Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 104 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Kok Cheong Wong Jackie Edwards Tatiana Kober |
Producers | Helen Stroud Gun Yoon Cheong |
Running time | 11 minutes |
Production companies | Bejuba! Entertainment Collingwood & Co. Sparky Animation SDI Media (US Version) |
Original release | |
Network | CBeebies (United Kingdom) Sprout (United States) |
Release | February 14, 2015 – September 9, 2017 |
Ruff-Ruff, Tweet and Dave is an interactive animated children's television series which premiered in the United Kingdom on CBeebies and in the United States on Sprout in 2015. [1] Hulu acquired the streaming rights in 2016. [2] Production ceased on new episodes when Universal Kids stopped developing original shows in 2019. [3]
In each episode, Ruff-Ruff, Tweet and Dave are called out by Hatty the Hamster to go on adventures with him. A few times in each episode, Hatty will ask a question. The three title characters will give their answers, but only one of them is correct. Hatty then asks the viewers which of the three gave the correct answer to his question.
The series is produced by British studio Collingwood & Co., Singapore studio Sparky Animation and Canadian studio Bejuba! Entertainment for CBeebies. American studio SDI Media co-produced the US Version of the series.
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