Skatoony

Skatoony
Genre	Game show Comedy
Created by	James Fox Brian Boyle
Written by	UK: James Fox, Richard Brookes, Andrew Viner, and Dave King NA: Laurie Elliott
Directed by	UK: James Fox (animation), and John A. Marley (live-action) NA: Michael Goldsmith (animation), and Dave Pearce (live-action)
Presented by	Chudd Chudders and The Earl
Voices of	UK: Rupert Degas and Lewis Macleod NA: Jonathan Wilson, James Rankin, and Jeff Lumby
Theme music composer	Oliver Davis
Opening theme	"Skatoony"
Ending theme	"Skatoony" (Instrumental)
Composer(s)	Bungalow 7 Productions (original music) Glenn Barna (additional music)
Country of origin	United Kingdom Canada United States
Original language(s)	English French
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	39 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	UK: Annie Miles (for Talent Television), and Finn Arnesen (for Cartoon Network Europe) NA: Mark J.W. Bishop and Matthew Hornburg (for Marblemedia) Athena Georgaklis and Alan Gregg (for Teletoon)
Producer(s)	UK: James Fox and Amanda Browning NA: Susan Edwards (TV series), Marilyn McAuley (animation), and Stephen J. Turnbull (supervising)
Location(s)	UK: Camden and London NA: Toronto (English version), and Montreal (French version) UAE: Dubai
Cinematography	Kevin C. W. Wong (NA version)
Editor(s)	UK: Kevin Narrainen NA: Andrew Gurney (Season 1&3), and Michael Pierro (Season 2–3)
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	UK: Talent Television and Cartoon Network Europe NA: Marblemedia, Smiley Guy Studios, and Teletoon Productions UAE: Blink Studios and Cartoon Network Arabic
Distributor	Marblemedia (North America) Distribution 360 (International)
Release
Original network	Cartoon Network UK Teletoon/Télétoon Cartoon Network Arabic Toon Goggles
Picture format	NTSC (480i)
Audio format	Stereophonic
Original release	UK: October 6, 2006 (2006-10-06) – November 20, 2008 (2008-11-20) NA: October 28, 2010 (2010-10-28) – present
External links
Website

Skatoony is a British/Canadian/American children's live-action game show, pitting live-action kids against cartoons. The series is co-produced with Talent Television (for the British version), Blink Studios (for the Arabic version), and Marblemedia with Smiley Guy Studios (for the North American version). The series is used to air on Cartoon Network in the UK, and on Teletoon in Canada. Now it is online in the US on Toon Goggles. It is hosted by 'Chudd Chudders' (voiced by Rupert Degas in the UK and Jonathan Wilson in NA) and 'The Earl' (voiced by Lewis MacLeod in UK and James Rankin in NA).

In 2001, Skatoony began as a competition microsite on the Cartoon Network UK website co-developed by James Fox and Brian Boyle, who the latter left Cartoon Network before the series premiered. In 2006, the first full length Skatoony TV show premiered on the Cartoon Network UK channel. However, a few phone-in shows such as Skatoony Quizmas, Ready Steady Skatoony and Skatoony Truckatoony existed before as a sort of continuity during school holidays. These phone-in shows ended in 2005. The British version of Skatoony was filmed at MTV Studios at Camden and in London with schoolchidren from around the world auditioning as contestants.

According to creator James Fox, the process of producing a Skatoony episode was very complicated and developed over all of the series.

First we’d plan out an episode and part script it. Then we’d take that to the studio and record the quiz element, weaving the script into conversation with the kids using “stand-in” actors instead of cartoons. We created slime and grunge out of various pastes, mostly wallpaper paste! Then we’d take the footage back to the animation studio and build the show from the original script and the live action footage.

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