Shaun the Sheep
| Shaun the Sheep | |
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| Genre |
Comedy Clay animation |
| Created by | Richard Starzak |
| Based on | Characters by Nick Park |
| Developed by | Richard Starzak Alison Snowden David Fine |
| Directed by | Richard Starzak Christopher Sadler |
| Voices of |
Justin Fletcher John Sparkes |
| Theme music composer | Mark Thomas |
| Opening theme | "Life's a Treat" |
| Ending theme | "Life's a Treat (Instrumental Version)" |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 150 36 (shorts) 1 (special) (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
For Aardman Animations: Miles Bullough David Sproxton Peter Lord Nick Park For BBC: Michael Carrington |
| Producer(s) | Julie Lockhart (series 1) Gareth Owen (series 2) John Woolley (series 3 and 4) |
| Running time | 7 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Aardman Animations BBC Westdeutscher Rundfunk |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBBC |
| Picture format |
16:9 Widescreen PAL (576i) (2007) 16:9 HDTV (1080i) (2009–10, 2013–2014) |
| Audio format | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Original release | 5 March 2007 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Timmy Time |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Shaun the Sheep is a British stop-motion animated television series, a spin-off of the Wallace and Gromit franchise. The series stars Shaun, a sheep previously featured in the 1995 short film A Close Shave and in the Shopper 13 short film from the 2002 Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions series, and his madcap adventures around a small farm as the leader of his flock. Having first aired in the UK on CBBC in March 2007 and broadcast in 180 countries globally, the series consists of 150 seven-minute episodes. The fifth series contains 20 episodes and has been aired in the Netherlands from 1 December 2015 until 1 January 2016.
The series inspired its own spin-off, Timmy Time, which follows the adventures of Shaun's small cousin and is aimed at younger viewers. A feature-length film, titled Shaun the Sheep Movie, was released theatrically in 2015. A 30-minute film, titled Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas, was aired as a 2015 Christmas TV special. Series 5 is due to begin airing in the UK on Monday 5 September 2016.
Shaun, an unusually bright and clever sheep, lives with his flock at Mossy Bottom Farm, a traditional small northern English farm. In each episode, their latest attempt to add excitement to their dull mundane life as livestock somehow snowballs into a fantastic sitcom-style escapade, most often with the help of their fascination with human doings and devices. This usually brings them into conflict—and often into partnership—with the farm sheepdog Bitzer, while they all are simultaneously trying to avoid discovery by the Farmer.
The show was produced by Aardman Animations, and commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), a constituent member of the consortium of German public-broadcasting institutions ARD. It has aired on CBBC in the UK from 2007 onward.
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