Angelina Ballerina | |
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Created by | Katharine Holabird & Helen Craig |
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Composer(s) | Colin Towns |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 39 (+3 specials) (list of episodes) |
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Producer(s) | Ginger Gibbons |
Running time | 12 minutes (series) 50 minutes (specials) 3 minutes (Little Stars) |
Production company(s) | PBS Kids |
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CITV (UK) PBS Kids (US) TVO Kids |
Picture format | 720p (16:9 SDTV) |
Original release | 4 May 2002 | – 5 September 2006
Angelina Ballerina is a British animated children's television series, based on the Angelina Ballerina series of children's books by author Katharine Holabird and illustrator Helen Craig. The series is about Angelina Mouseling, a young mouse who loves to dance ballet, and her family and classmates. Finty Williams performed the voice of Angelina, and her real-life mother Judi Dench performed the voice of Miss Lilly, her ballet teacher.
The show had 40 fifteen-minute episodes, as well as three longer specials, which first aired in 2002, 2005 and 2006. The series was produced by HIT Entertainment in the United Kingdom. It aired on PBS in the United States and CITV in the United Kingdom, where it was presented by Connecticut Public Television; and can currently be seen on Nick Jr. in the United Kingdom, Sprout in the United States and ABC in Australia (27 May 2002 - 6 May 2012).
In August 2009, WNET announced that they were working on a new CGI series called Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps. The series is about Angelina going to a performing arts school. The series debuted on September 5, 2009.
At the October 2016 MIPCOM, HIT Entertainment, Mattel, and 9 Story Media Group announced a deal for a 2017 revival of Angelina Ballerina along with Barney & Friends.