Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman
| Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman | |
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| Genre | Children's game show |
| Created by | Kate Taylor |
| Developed by | WGBH Boston |
| Written by | Glen Berger Jim Conroy |
| Directed by | Clifford Saito Adam Dalley Joe Truesdell Peter Lyons Wayne Simpson Dean Raymond Robert V. Lange Chris Whitbeck |
| Presented by | Jim Conroy |
| Starring | List of contestants |
| Voices of | Jim Conroy |
| Narrated by | Jim Conroy |
| Theme music composer | Terry Tompkins, Rocco Gagliese, Steve D'Angelo for Eggplant LLC |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 100 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Kate Taylor |
| Producer(s) | Paul Serafini Marcy Gunther Eric Handler Alan Catello Grazioso |
| Location(s) | Boston, Massachusetts, Toronto, Canada, and other parts of the USA |
| Editor(s) | Arnie Harchik Jessica Rueter Andrews Lisa Wolf Kathyrn Farrelly Jennifer Lorenz Joe Headrick Arnie Harchik John Warren Mark Geffen Maureen Barillaro Karen Silverstein |
| Camera setup | Mark C. Helton Dan Lang Stephen McCarthy Multi-camera (For Studio Segaments) |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | WGBH-TV |
| Distributor | WGBH-TV |
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| Original network | PBS |
| Picture format | Closed-Captioned, Color, High Definition |
| First shown in | United States |
| Original release | May 29, 2006 – November 4, 2010 |
| External links | |
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Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, sometimes shortened as Fetch!, is an American animated television series that was on PBS Kids. It is a reality-game show that is hosted by an animated anthropomorphic dog named Ruff Ruffman who dispenses challenges to the show's real-life contestants. Ruff Ruffman appears to be a Weimaraner. The series ran for five seasons and 100 episodes from May 29, 2006 to November 4, 2010 on PBS, with 30 contestants in that time. In June 2010, WGBH announced that the series would end due to lack of funding. In June 2008, the series received its first Emmy for Best Original Song for its theme.
Fetch! was produced at WGBH Studios in Boston. Seasons were filmed about a year before they aired. Season four was the first season to be filmed in High Definition (HD) in 2009. However, WGBH announced that while casting had already been completed, due to a lack of funding, Fetch! was canceled at the end of its fifth season.
The challenges are filmed mostly in Boston and various other parts of the USA, depending on the challenges, during summertime when the children are out of school. The challenges, which are shot out on the field, are cut documentary-style, very similar to network reality TV shows.
After the Fetchers finish filming the challenges, contestants act in-studio, with the voice of Ruff. Jim Conroy travels to Boston from New York for the two weeks they spend shooting in the studio. The fourth camera simply captures Conroy doing his lines as Ruff in the audio booth. The kids hear him in the studio and he hears their reactions in his headphones. Ruff's lines are the only lines that are scripted out, though he will sometimes ad-lib an answer to a question or comment from a Fetcher. Once the lines are recorded, the show goes into editing, where the challenges are sorted into the show order.
Then they are sent to Jim Conroy in New York City, to voice dialog for Ruff's animation. Once that is complete, it is sent back to WGBH where editors place audio clips of the animated characters. Once all of this is done, the episode is sent to Global Mechanic to animate the show. One out of the four editors have an off-set four-week system in place where one of them is ready to send a cut of a new episode to Vancouver every Friday. This process takes about six months to complete one season of the show.
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