BBC Unveils Trio Of Animation Series As It Steps Up Search For British ‘Simpsons’ The BBC has unveiled the trio of projects that it hopes could fulfil the search for a British Simpsons.
Coming from the Ignite animation program, the corporation has greenlit Duck and Frog, The Underglow and Captain Onion’s Buoyant Academy for Wayward Youth.
The former is a slacpstick comedy with a modern British setting and an energetic anarchic sense of humor, The Underglow is a preschool series with little creatures and characters that come out to play when the sun goes down and the latter follows Marvin and his friends on their boat-based boarding school, the Unsinkable II.
The projects were greenlit after producers submitted ideas to the BBC and have been chosen following an 18-month development process.
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