BBC - Press Office - CBeebies Autumn 2008 schedule". BBC. Archived from the original on 24 January 2019 . Retrieved 24 January 2019. Teletubbies creators are at it again". 18 April 2007. Archived from the original on 28 December 2021 . Retrieved 28 December 2021. The specials centre on a brand new character called the Zonk, who sends the characters off to the magical world of the ZonkeyZoney so they can relax in peace. The series is fully animated in 3D CGI animation, unlike the original series which was a mix of CGI, 2D animation and live-action.

In the Night Garden...Live! started a first UK tour in July 2010. The show took place in an inflatable purpose-built show-dome. The show debuted and premiered in Liverpool and moved on to London, Glasgow and Birmingham. In the Night Garden...Live! has toured the United Kingdom every summer. [17] [18] ZinkyZonk Specials [ edit ] I think it’s pretty trippy, I’ve always thought that whoever writes or directs it is on some good drugs” says one friend. ”It’s the kind of TV that could really drive a sleep-deprived mum around the bend.” Jones, Catherine (26 March 2010). "In The Night Garden coming to Sefton Park this summer". liverpoolecho.co.uk. Archived from the original on 23 February 2022 . Retrieved 26 March 2010. Sound crazy? You’d be right, but children the world over can’t get enough of the characters and the technicolour world they inhabit. On 1 October 2019, the "In the Night Garden Igglepiggle Peek-a-boo Clip-on Toy" made by Golden Bear Toys was recalled due to a possible choking hazard to young children. [16] Live theatrical show [ edit ]Before setting off to meet Davenport, I'd asked my daughter if she had a question for Iggle Piggle's daddy. "Why does Iggle Piggle have to go to bed?" she said. "That's a really interesting question," says Davenport. "He's the connection for the child, the one who goes to sleep at the beginning and enters the Night Garden. But he's also, crucially, the only character not in bed at the end. 'Somebody's not in bed – Iggle Piggle's not in bed.' I see my kids watching this show all the time. The show seems to be bookended by segments in which Iggle Piggle (the little blue retarded looking character), goes to sleep in his little sail boat as the narrator tells us that he is deep in the ocean and far away from land. The narrator also tells us in a reassuring voice that he is "safe". But not on CBeebies. Oh no. In this strange, drug-inspired reality the twisted individual in a cat suit is just giving the little girl a welcome chance to float around on bubbles made by an elephant seal who, inexplicably considering our weather, lives in the lake.

And there was me thinking it was just a bunch of toys running about saying hello to each other. Davenport has, however, forgotten the other crucial thing about Iggle Piggle: he looks very like David Cameron. "Yeah," he laughs. "People have said that. But David Cameron wasn't on my mind at any point during the devising of Iggle Piggle." Does he think it might have helped Cameron's election success? "It might have made a contribution," he says, laughing again. "Who knows?" Bedtime really commands a child's entire day. Very often children don't have a proper sense of time. They live with the idea that, at any moment, someone could just take them from what they are doing and send them to bed. It can be a difficult moment: being suddenly alone. So In the Night Garden makes a metaphorical explanation for sleep, which is one of the only things in a child's life it can't be accompanied on. That's why you have the image of Iggle Piggle alone on a boat at the start, floating on a dark swelling ocean that's a metaphor for sleep."

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Iggle Piggle is now making his way through the world all the way to the stage: the In the Night Garden Live show opened in Liverpool last month and has just arrived in London, before heading for Glasgow and Birmingham. "For a long time, I didn't want to do a stage show," says Davenport. "It's difficult to create something that works for a theatre audience in the way that a TV show works for one. And conventional theatres are simply not designed for two-year-olds, with those seats they can't see over." These may be silly words,” he told The Guardian, “but they are nice words: charming, attractive, fun words”. Andrew Davenport, who also created Teletubbies, the world’s second most annoying children’s television show, was 43 when he dreamed up In the Night Garden, condemning millions of parents to a fate worse than being run over by the Ninky Nonk while probably never having to sit through an episode (other than for work) himself. The boxset Hello Everybody! (24 November 2008) includes "Hello Igglepiggle", "Hello Upsy Daisy", "Hello Makka Pakka", & "Hello Tombliboos" If there’s ever been a toddler or two in your household you are no doubt familiar with the Night Garden phenomenon. It’s one of the world’s most popular children’s televison shows and features a cast of surreal characters including Iggle Piggle, Makka Pakka, Upsy Daisy and the Pontipines – and their adventures on the Ninky Nonk and the Pink Ponk.

Andrew Davenport stated in an interview with the Guardian that the key inspiration for the series was his own dream world as a child. This started coming into place in 2004 when Davenport created sketches for the characters of Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy and Makka Pakka. The series would go on to be publicly announced a year later, and filming would eventually start in early 2005. [5] In the United Kingdom, In the Night Garden... debuted on 19 March 2007 and aired its final episode on 6 March 2009. From 23 April until 10 June 2007, the show took a break from airing on the CBeebies channel although it was still shown on BBC Two. From 11 June 2007 until 28 March 2008, the show aired on the CBeebies channel every day, including weekends, at 6:25pm in the "Bedtime Hour" slot, in addition to earlier 11am showings on BBC Two on weekday mornings. [11] From 29 March until 29 August 2008, In The Night Garden... was removed from its 6:25pm "Bedtime Hour" slot, which resulted in a nationwide fan petition outside the BBC's Television Centre studios asking for the programme to be re-instated to its normal slot. [10] The show returned to the daily "Bedtime Hour" slot at 6.20pm as of 30 August 2008 and began showing the second series (beginning with "Slow Down Everybody") on 1 September 2008. [12] From 3 January until 4 September 2009, the show was moved to a 6:00pm transmission time but was still retained in the “Bedtime Hour” slot. From 5 September 2009 onwards; to this day, the show remains in the 6:20pm slot and is traditionally the last full-length programme of the day before the bedtime story segment. The show also aired on Jetix Play. Another says Davenport created Iggle Piggle to look like former British prime minister David Cameron and it helped him win the general election in 2010. Several Region 2 DVDs have been released in the United Kingdom by BBC Worldwide since September 2007:Elsewhere on children's TV resides Peppa Pig, leader of a porcine cult not unlike how the world would be if Napoleon, the tyrannical oinker from George Orwell's Animal Farm, had succeeded in building his totalitarian pig-state.