Camille Oesch: Last News

FANS have been going wild after it was announced another legendary kids' TV show has been revived. The Magic Roundabout will be making a TV return after being off air for over 30 years. The show, which is aimed at preschool-aged children, has been revived by a French TV network.

READ NEXT: Sacked CBeebies star felt 'lost' after job axe for stripping naked for racy photoshootThe old 60s classics will come back with 52 11-minute episodes which will be produced by Mediawan’s Method Animation, the company behind The Little Prince and Robin Hood.Producer Camille Oesch said there is a “huge global interest” in reviving the programme, despite a 2005 attempt at a film flopping.The new series is expected to air in 2024, and will be aimed at a young audience of three to five year olds, she hoped it would “recreate the magic of the Magic Roundabout”.Ms Oesch said: “We want to respect the characters, personalities and spirit of the original. It’s not a question of going back into the past, but of reviving this iconic work with the techniques of the present.“In England, The Magic Roundabout was not just an iconic programme of the 1960s it was a cultural reference in animation, but the context today isn’t the same as in the 1960s so we have to find a path between the two.”The original show aired in the UK from 1965 until 1977, with a French version also taking place between 1964 and 1974.In 2005, kids of a new era could witness the magic of the iconic cast of characters with the release of a motion picture.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMediawan Kids and Family’s Method Animation, the prestige animation label behind “The Little Prince,” is set to reboot “Le Manège Enchanté” (“The Magic Roundabout”), the iconic 1960’s French stop-motion animation series.The new show, whose first season will comprise 52 episodes of 11 minutes each, will be aimed at a pre-school audiences. Founded by Aton Soumache, Method Animation has a stellar track record with reboots of cult franchises, from “Robin Hood” to “The Little Prince,” as well as with original IP’s such as “Miraculous” (produced with ZAG).