The Lingo Show

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The Lingo Show
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Genre Children's
Animated
Created byNicole Seymour
Directed byCharlotte Bushell & Lee Kitchen
Voices of Marc Silk
Lin Lin
Aurelie Harp
Fran Canals
Britta Gartner
Elen Rhys
Bhasker Patel
Anita Rani
Marcel McCalla
Waris Dirie
ComposerBarrie Bignold
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes45
Production
Executive producerAdam Redfern
Running time20 minutes
Production companies BBC
Dinamo Productions
BBC Studios
Original release
Network CBeebies
Release12 March 2012 (2012-03-12) 
7 June 2013 (2013-06-07)

The Lingo Show is a British animated children's television series created by Nicole Seymour, produced by the BBC and animated by Dinamo Productions for BBC's CBeebies channel and programming block, in association with BBC Studios. [1] Kate Sullivan designed the characters and many other elements. The show, which combines animation with live-action footage, is designed to introduce preschool kids to new languages.

Contents

The programme, which ran for 2 series totalling 30 episodes, initially began as an interactive minisite on the CBeebies website, [2] aired on CBeebies from 2012 [3] to 2013, [4] and was repeated until 2017. [5]

Plot

The series revolves around a show bug host named Lingo and his family of bugs, who each specialize in a different language. At the request of children, he travels across the world to perform a Big Bug Show using one of his performers. In each episode, the chosen performer searches around for props required for their show, as they introduce objects in their language, before they bring them back to Lingo so they can perform the show for the delighted preschool children.

Characters

Main characters

The characters were designed by Kate Sullivan.

Minor characters

Production

The Lingo Show was originally created as an interactive minisite by CBeebies web producer Nicole Seymour, which launched in February 2011. The site features various activities which teach children new words in numerous languages; with the website periodically updated to include new languages. The site proved popular and in February that year, it was decided to bring the series to television format, with Dinamo Productions doing animation. The first season, consisting of fifteen episodes, which teaches Mandarin, French and Spanish, began airing from 12 March 2012. The second season, also consisting of fifteen episodes, which teaches German, Welsh and Urdu, began airing from 20 May 2013. A third season may have been planned, but was never released. Twelve additional episodes were released on the CBeebies Radio from 2020 to 2022, teaching the same languages as the second season.

References

  1. "The Lingo Show – CBeebies – BBC".
  2. "BBC – Press Office – CBeebies lights up little language learners with the Lingo Show".
  3. "CBeebies - Schedules, Monday 12 March 2012". www.bbc.co.uk.
  4. "CBeebies - Schedules, Friday 7 June 2013". www.bbc.co.uk.
  5. "CBeebies - Schedules, Friday 1 September 2017". www.bbc.co.uk.
  6. "The Lingo Show - Wèi's Song". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  7. "The Lingo Show - Jargonaise's Song". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  8. "The Lingo Show - Queso's Song". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  9. "The Lingo Show - Lieb's song". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  10. "The Lingo Show - Blodwen's Song". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  11. "The Lingo Show - Jaadoo's Song". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  12. "The Lingo Show - Kikli's Song". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  13. "The Lingo Show - Dyzio's Song". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  14. "The Lingo Show - Subah's Song". www.bbc.co.uk.