Cosgrove Hall Films was an English animation studio founded by Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall; its headquarters was in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester. Cosgrove Hall was once a major producer of children's television and animated programmes/films; Cosgrove Hall's programmes are still seen in over eighty countries. The company was wound down by its then owner, ITV plc, on 26 October 2009. It was mainly known for its series Danger Mouse, The Wind in the Willows, and Count Duckula.
Classic Media, LLC, trading as Classic Media or DreamWorks Classics, is an American entertainment company owned by DreamWorks Animation, which is a subsidiary of Universal Pictures and a division of Comcast's NBCUniversal. It was founded in 2000 by Eric Ellenbogen and John Engelman. The studio's library consists of acquired intellectual property catalogs and character brands, as well as the licensing rights for various third-party properties. In 2012, Boomerang Media sold Classic Media to DreamWorks Animation, who rebranded the company as DreamWorks Classics. DreamWorks Animation became a subsidiary of NBCUniversal in 2016.
Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World is a 1998 direct-to-video animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. It was released on February 17, 1998, and it is the sequel to Disney's 1991 animated feature film Beauty and the Beast and the third and final installment in the Beauty and the Beast trilogy, featuring the voices of David Ogden Stiers as Cogsworth, Robby Benson as The Beast, Gregory Grudt, who replaced Bradley Pierce as Chip Potts, Paige O'Hara as Belle, Anne Rogers, who replaced Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Potts, and Jerry Orbach as Lumiere. The film features two songs performed by Belle, "Listen With Our Hearts" and "A Little Thought." This storyline is set within the timeline of the original Beauty and the Beast.
Milkshake! is a British children's television programming block on Channel 5 and is currently aimed at children aged 5 and under.
Fifi and the Flowertots is a British stop-motion animated children's television series created by Keith Chapman for Five and Nick Jr. It aired from 2 May 2005 to 5 July 2010. Chapman Entertainment produced the show, which was animated by Cosgrove Hall Films.
Timothy Charles Whitnall is an English actor, playwright and screenwriter. He is known for playing Angelo in the long-running CITV series Mike and Angelo and narrating the BBC children's TV programme Teletubbies from 1997 to 2001. As a writer, he has won a BAFTA and an Olivier Award for his work on TV movie Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story and play Morecambe. He is also a voice actor, providing voices on television shows such as Fifi and the Flowertots, Roary the Racing Car and Thomas & Friends.
Keith Vincent Chapman is a British television writer and producer, best known as the creator of children's television programmes Bob the Builder, Fifi and the Flowertots and PAW Patrol.
Chapman Entertainment was a British television production company founded by Keith Chapman and Greg Lynn and based in London, England.
Maria Darling is a British voice actress who has provided many character voices for children's television programmes in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Roary the Racing Car is a British stop-motion animated children's television series created by David Jenkins and produced by Chapman Entertainment and Cosgrove Hall Films for Five and Nick Jr. It follows the adventures of Roary and his racing car friends at Silver Hatch race track.
Nick Jr. is a cable television channel in Latin America owned by Paramount Global subsidiary Paramount Networks Americas. The channel is aimed at a preschool audience.
Marc Silk is a British voice actor. His character vocal work includes Aks Moe in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, the 2015 reboot of Danger Mouse, The Pingu Show, The Lingo Show, Go Jetters, Strange Hill High, Chicken Run and US voice of Bob and several other characters in Bob the Builder.
Nick Jr. is a Dutch pay-TV preschooler's network and is part of the Dutch Nickelodeon network. After the transition of Kindernet to Nickelodeon in 2003, Nick Jr. became a programme block on Nickelodeon in the morning. Nick Jr. was to launch as a separate channel on 1 January 2005, but due to some capacity issues, it finally launched a few months later on 1 May.
CHF Entertainment was an animation studio formed in 2011. It was the reincarnation of the animation company Cosgrove Hall Films which closed in 2009 after 40 years. Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall formed and ran the original Cosgrove Hall creating over 1000 episodes of animated programs such as Danger Mouse, Cockleshell Bay, Count Duckula, Lavender Castle and The Wind in the Willows, and produced Fifi and the Flowertots, Postman Pat, and Roary the Racing Car. They won a number of awards, including six BAFTAs and two international Emmys.
IRIB Pooya & Nahal is an Iranian state-owned children's Television channel owned by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.
Ranger Rob is an animated children's television series created by Alexander Bar. The series debuted on Treehouse TV in Canada on September 5, 2016. It is produced by Nelvana in Canada, and Studio Liddell in the United Kingdom. In the US, it airs on Universal Kids and UniMás.
Mackinnon & Saunders is a British animation studio. It is based in Altrincham in Trafford, Greater Manchester. The studio both produces its own animations and creates puppets for other studios' productions.
