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LazyTown Entertainment

LazyTown
LazyTown logo.svg
Genre Children's
Musical comedy
Educational television
Created by Magnús Scheving
Based on Áfram Latibær!
by Magnús Scheving
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
Distributor Viacom International
(international)
Turner Broadcasting System
(Europe)
Release
Original network Nickelodeon (international)
RÚV, Stöð 2 (Iceland)
Picture format HDTV
Original release 15 August 2004 (2004-08-15) – 13 October 2014 (2014-10-13)
Chronology
Followed by LazyTown Extra
External links
Website www.lazytown.com

LazyTown is an Icelandic 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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