The Furchester Hotel | |
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Genre | Educational television |
Created by | Belinda Ward |
Developed by | Belinda Ward |
Written by | Belinda Ward (lead writer) |
Starring |
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Theme music composer | Andy Blythe and Marten Joustra |
Opening theme | "Welcome to the Furchester" |
Ending theme | "Farewell from the Furchester" |
Country of origin | United Kingdom United States |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 104 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Tony Reed Carol-Lynn Parente |
Producer(s) | David Collier Dionne Nosek Rob Jenkinson |
Running time | 11 minutes |
Production company(s) |
Sesame Workshop CBeebies |
Distributor | BBC Worldwide |
Release | |
Original network | CBeebies (2014-present) |
Original release | 26 September 2014 – present |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Sesame Tree |
The Furchester Hotel is a British-American puppet series for CBeebies (BBC's preschool network). It is a British spinoff of Sesame Street.
The series promotes problem-solving as the monsters try to figure out issues developed by their unique guests. Production of fifty-two 11-minute episodes (for two seasons) began in February 2014 at MediaCityUK in Salford.
On November 14, 2014 Sesame Street's YouTube channel began airing full episodes of The Furchester Hotel each week.
In February 2016, The Furchester Hotel was renewed for Season 2 which will begin production in May. It consists of 50 episodes and a double-length Christmas episode as well as guest appearances by Big Bird, Count von Count, and the Yip Yips. The second season began on October 31, 2016.
On September 26, 2016, Sprout started airing The Furchester Hotel on Weekdays.
The Furchester Hotel is a half-star hotel that is owned by a monster family called the Furchester-Fuzz Family. The Furchester-Fuzz Family alongside Elmo and Cookie Monster figure out how to solve different issues that are developed by the guests of the Furchester Hotel.
The show opens with a different character's face shaped as the river and zooms down into where the hotel is and all the Furchester Family can be seen singing where they are joined in by Elmo and Cookie Monster. At the end, all the guests are singing with the Furchester Family and the Tea Time Monsters.
The Furchester Hotel will have 52 episodes span over two series and will premiere every weekday in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Director and his assistant Carol are visiting the Furchester Hotel to shoot a video to promote the establishment. During the filming, the Furchesters solve some problems along the way like the living arrangements for a penguin named Mrs. Iceberger and a lion named Mr. Mainbrie.
When the Furchester Hotel runs out of cookies, Cookie Monster is freaking out and a new guest named Mr. Crumb (who is a cookie) arrives. Can the Furchesters stop Cookie Monster from eating Mr. Crumb?
Funella welcomes the incoming guests with furry arms....until one guest named Pierce the Porcupine arrives.