Latibær
| LazyTown | |
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| Genre |
Children's Musical comedy Educational television |
| Created by | Magnús Scheving |
| Based on |
Áfram Latibær! by Magnús Scheving |
| Written by | Mark Valenti |
| Starring |
Julianna Rose Mauriello Chloe Lang Magnús Scheving Stefán Karl Stefánsson Guðmundur Þór Kárason Sarah Burgess Kobie Powell Jodi Eichelberger David Matthew Feldman Julie Westwood |
| Opening theme | "Welcome to LazyTown", performed by Jón Jósep Snæbjörnsson |
| Ending theme | "Bing Bang" |
| Composer(s) | Máni Svavarsson |
| Country of origin | Iceland |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 104(list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Magnús Scheving Ragnheiður Melsteð Raymond P. Le Gué Mark Read Brown Johnson Kay Wilson Stallings |
| Running time | 24 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
LazyTown Entertainment Truenorth Production Les Enterprises Le Gué |
| Distributor |
Paramount Television (international) Warner Bros. Television Distribution (Europe) |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Nickelodeon (international) RÚV, Stöð 2 (Iceland) Jetix |
| Picture format |
SDTV (seasons 1-2) HDTV (season 3-4) |
| Original release | 16 August 2004 – 13 October 2014 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | LazyTown Extra |
| External links | |
| Website | |
LazyTown is an Icelandic children's educational musical comedy program with a cast and crew from Iceland, the United States and the United Kingdom. It is based upon a children's book from 1991 titled Áfram Latibær! and was created by Magnús Scheving, a gymnastics champion who also plays the character Sportacus.
The series was commissioned by Nickelodeon in 2003, following the production of two stage plays and a test pilot. Originally performed in American English, the show has been dubbed into more than thirty languages (including Icelandic) and aired in over 180 countries. The show combines live-action, puppetry and CGI animation.
52 episodes were produced from 2004 to 2007, for the first and second seasons. It originally aired on Viacom's Nickelodeon channel in the United States and internationally. Turner Broadcasting System Europe acquired LazyTown Entertainment in 2011 and commissioned third and fourth seasons for a total of 13 new episodes, which premiered in 2013 on Turner's Cartoonito and later on Viacom's Channel 5.
Multiple spin-off projects were created, including stage productions and a short-format television program for younger children titled LazyTown Extra.
LazyTown began as a storybook published in 1991 titled Áfram Latibær! ("Go, Go, LazyTown!"). In 1996, a stage adaptation of the book toured Iceland. It featured Stephanie as an out-of-shape dancer and Sportacus as an energetic elf. The puppet characters seen in the television series also appeared in human form, but Robbie Rotten did not yet exist. A second stage show titled Glanni Glæpur í Latabæ ("Robbie Rotten in LazyTown") debuted in 1999. It introduced Stefán Karl Stefánsson as Robbie and featured more finalized versions of the other characters. Nickelodeon Australia reported that by the time the second play finished touring, LazyTown had become a household name in Iceland. A variety of tie-in products and media were created in the country before Scheving decided to develop LazyTown into a television program; these included bottled water, toy figures, and a radio station.
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