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Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids
Based onGrizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids
by Jamie Rix
Screenplay byJamie Rix
Directed by
  • Sara Bor
  • Simon Bor
Narrated byNigel Planer
ComposerEd Welch
Country of originEngland, United Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons
  • 6 (Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids)
  • 2 (Grizzly Tales)
No. of episodes78 (+ 1 22-minute special)[a]
26[b]
Production
Executive producers
  • Michael Forte (series 1–3)
  • Rachel Pendleton (series 2)
  • David Mercer (series 4)
Producers
  • Clive Hedges (series 1—2)
  • Sarah Muller (series 3 and 4)
  • Simon Bor
  • Sara Bor
Production locationsDevon (Honeycomb Animation), Isle of Man (Lough House), Ealing Studios
Animator
  • Andy Farago, Richard Randolph, Nick Herbert (stop-motion)
EditorsPeter Beswick, Nick Anderson, Keezer Tracy, Jon Ellis
Running time10 minutes
Production companies
  • Honeycomb Animation and Elephant Productions[c]
  • Carlton Television
Original release
NetworkITV
ReleaseJanuary 4, 2000 (2000-01-04)
Related
Grizzly Tales: Cautionary Tales for Lovers of Squeam!

Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids[2] is a British animated television series based on the generic trademarked children's book series of the same name by Jamie Rix. After the first three books were published from 1990 to 1996, Carlton Television adapted the short stories into ten-minute cartoons for ITV, produced by themselves, Honeycomb Animation, and Rix's production company, Elephant Productions. It aired on CITV between January 2000 and October 2006 with six series and 78 episodes, as well as a New Year's Eve special that was over 20 minutes longer than other episodes. The series returned in a new format for NickToons UK with 26 episodes split into two series[3] under the name Grizzly Tales (also known as Grizzly Tales: Cautionary Tales for Lovers of Squeam!), which aired between May 2011 and November 2012.

Both versions of the series have been nominated for BAFTAs and the CITV series has received numerous international awards from animated film festivals. Both have been popular on their respective channels; the CITV series has often been re-aired on Nickelodeon with the Nicktoons series. The CITV cartoon was available for purchase on DVD in the UK and Northern Ireland, as well as Porchlight Entertainment in North America[4] and Time Life's Shock Records in Australia and New Zealand.[5] The Nickelodeon cartoon was later released on DVD through the same respective companies, however, it was released in the UK and Northern Ireland with Abbey Home Media.[6]

History and development

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In 1993, Honeycomb Animation founders Simon & Sara Bor had signed a deal with Central (later owned by Carlton Television) to create the cartoon Wolves, Witches and Giants. According to Simon, the then-head of Carlton Television, Michael Forte, had initially been hesitant to develop the project until Carlton took over Central, but he handed them a copy of Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids and advised them to "Get in touch with the author, and see if you can come up with something."[7] Years before, after the success of his debut book Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, Rix had attempted to use his producer credits to get his work adapted by sending copies to television studios.[8] When Honeycomb and Elephant agreed on a partnership, Rix's producer partner Nigel Planer was performing a few of the Grizzly, Ghostly, and Fearsome short stories during the evenings on BBC Radio 5 (which re-aired on Radio 4),[9][10][11][12][13] but pre-production was forcibly halted just as storyboarding began due to studio hesitations over the source material and the publisher of Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids (Hodder Children's Group) being different to the rest in the trilogy (André Deutsch Limited).[8]

After Wolves, Witches and Giants concluded in 1998, Forte funded a three-minute television pilot based on Grizzly Tales book series. He intended to send it to Greece for Cartoon Forum, but they were unprepared so he sent it to ITV. Nigel Packard had been the controller for CITV for a year[14] and greenlit the series immediately,[15] with a budget between US$2 million[d] (equivalent to £3,146,160 in 2023) and $3.3 million[e] (equivalent to £5,057,986 in 2023)[8][16] for 26 episodes, later explaining: "We [CITV] had commissioned a lot of cuddly preschool shows and needed something to act as a bridge between the older and younger stuff in the schedule."[8] In September, it was pitched to Cartoon Forum, which was attended by numerous children's television broadcaster representatives, who unanimously approved and offered a percentage of the budget.[8] Thirteen episodes were created within 15 months for the first series with Rix as co-director and co-screenwriter,[17] Nigel Planer as narrator, and the Bors as directors, with animation divided between Honeycomb, and Elephant Productions' sister company Lough House.[8] The first episode — "The New Nanny" — aired on CITV afternoon terrestrial slot at 4 pm on 4 January 2000,[18] followed by twelve episodes that aired weekly until 27 March. To promote the new cartoon, Rix rereleased the first three books with Scholastic Ltd.,[8] as well as the new More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids,[8] with front covers designed by Honeycomb Animation.[7]

Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids (2000–2006)

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Each episode had a framing device set in an old cinema (named The Squeam Screen) with its creepy caretaker and his spider companion, Spindleshanks. The adapted stories are short movies on film reels that the caretaker screens from the projector into the theatre, after he finishes talking to the audience about morals and proverbs that will later relate to the story of that episode, as he bullied Spindleshanks through malicious pranks and cowardice. These were an invention from Planer, who suggested that the adapted stories should have consistency.[19] These scenes are animated with Claymation whereas the adapted stories from the books were traditionally animated,[17] then later animated in Adobe Flash.[20]

Episodes were faithful to the original story, however, there were some minor changes. For example, the Cluck family in the eponymous story "The Dumb Clucks"[21] were renamed the Klutz family, and the title was expectantly adjusted.[22] Other notable changes included the use of character models that were constantly reused in many episodes either with minor adjustments or not, alternating between main and background characters: the character model for Dorothy May Piranha from "The Piranha Sisters"[23] is the same "actress" who was Savannah Slumberson in "The Grub-A-Blub Blub".[24] However, the set character appearances occasionally led to an appearance deviation from how the character was described in the original story: the bullying Ginger Pie in "Knock Down Ginger" was described as a tall, overweight boy with pale skin and pale red hair,[25] but his character model – the same one used for Ginger (no relation) in "The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping"[26] (who was a boy implied to be very outdoorsy with his friends) – was a skinny boy with curly red hair.[26][27] Loralilee's witch doctor cure in "Doctor Moribundus"[28] was adapted out of the cartoon, replaced with the Squeam Screen caretaker's narration claiming that the cure was too disturbing to tell as the viewer is shown the outside her bedroom window,[29] and Stinker's murder in "The Chipper Chums Goes Scrumping"[30] is changed to becoming crippled.[26]

The original four books in the series were adapted for the first four series (although some, such as "The Matchstick Girl", were never adapted) but the final two series featured new stories that would later appear in the Grizzly Tales: Cautionary Tales for Lovers of Squeam! books. The theme music was altered at this time with a completely different melody and a faster tempo than the one used at the beginning of the cartoon's run. The framing device with the caretaker and Spindleshanks disappeared and the end of the opening titles would cut to the projector being turned on.[31] Like the first two series, series five and six were commissioned in bulk as a 26-episode deal.[32][33][34]

In 2007, it was announced that ITV was planning to promote ITV4 more frequently, which led to numerous ITV programming being cancelled; Digital Spy and Broadcast revealed that Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids had not been offered a seventh series[35] — despite its popularity[36] — finishing in 2006.[37] Michael Grade, the ITV chairman, explained that it did not make "commercial sense" to generously invest in a children's channel.[35]

Grizzly Tales (2011–2012)

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The CITV series was airing as reruns on Nickelodeon[38][39] when Honeycomb Animation announced in 2011 that a new series would be aired on NickToons UK in May.[1] This new programme would have a shortened, catchier name and be "reinvented for a modern audience with even more twisted, dark stories to delight children everywhere"[1] but would remain to a formula similar to the newer book series, Grizzly Tales: Cautionary Tales for Lovers of Squeam!.

Other differences would be the location of the framing device, which was now at The Hot-Hell Darkness[39] instead of the Squeam Screen cinema, and the animation: the hotel scenes were 3D animated and the stories were animated in 2D software. The cinema caretaker was now replaced by the re-invented books' The Night-Night Porter, his half-brother,[39] who banishes horrible children to spend an eternity at his hotel.[1] Nigel Planer, Elephant Productions (now named Little Brother Productions)[40] and the crew returned for this series, and the show, although for a new generation, was as popular and successful as its predecessor.[41]

Characters

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This is a list of the cast that frequently appears in the two television adaptations.

  • The Squeam Screen caretaker: The caretaker of The Squeam Screen cinema (revealed online to be named Uncle Grizzly) is the only character who speaks in the CITV series and is voiced by Nigel Planer. He gives the audience morals, proverbs and examples of life lessons, as well as narrating the short movies. In the opening titles, he appears at the end of the sequence, walking up to the projection room to blow out his electric torch and grab a film reel out of a towering stack as he says, "You are welcome to Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, a series of cautionary tales for lovers of squeam!" Not much is known about him from the series outside of being a surrogate mentor, however, he is prone to shapeshift his head into a variety of things to terrify the audience or Spindleshanks. Outside of the series, his character profile is available to view on the official Grizzly Tales website, which reveals that his personal favourite movie he has shown is first series' third episode "Grandmother's Footsteps".[42]
  • Spindleshanks: A large spider that lives in The Squeam Screen cinema. He communicates non-verbally (through facial expressions) but occasionally squeaks. Uncle Grizzly constantly uses him for audience demonstrations but often as an excuse to bully, torture and abuse him for laughs. One ending to an episode showed that he had become a ghost, which made Uncle Grizzly cackle. He does not appear in the Nickelodeon series.[43]
  • The Night Night Porter: The official narrator of the second book series, half-brother of Uncle Grizzly, and the owner of the Hot Hell Darkness hotel; voiced by Nigel Planer. He is similar to his cinema caretaker relative through being a mentor to the reader/audience, being the only other character in the television adaptations that speaks. He relishes in punishing children, particularly horrible ones, and shows off some of the tortures that his guests are receiving in their rooms.

Crew

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Forte was executive producer for three series of the CITV programme and was succeeded by David Mercer.[17] Other producers included Clive Hedges (first two series) and Sarah Muller (three and four).[17] The stop-motion was animated by Andy Farago, Richard Randolph and Nick Herbert[44] (Ealing Animation)[17] and the 2D animation was animated by numerous animators, including Gareth Conway, Graham Hayter, Chris Bowles, Oli Knowles, Dan Mitchell, Casey Fulton, Trev Phillips, Malcolm Yeates, Jon Miller, Daniel Mitchell, Victoria Goy-Smith, Liam Williamson, Francis Iowe, Karen Elliott, and Christopher Bowles.[44][17]

In 2004, Grizzly TV was created: a sister company to represent the partnership between Honeycomb and Elephant/Little Brother.[34]

Broadcast

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For the CITV series:

For the Nickelodeon series:

  • United Kingdom: NickToons
  • Ireland: NickToons
  • Australia: ABC 3[53][54]

Merchandise

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The CITV cartoon was available for purchase on DVD in the UK and Northern Ireland, as well as Porchlight Entertainment in North America[55] and Time Life's Shock Records in Australia and New Zealand.[56] The Nickelodeon cartoon was later released on DVD through the same respective companies, however, it was released in the UK and Northern Ireland with Abbey Home Media.[57]

Episodes

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Main article: List of Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids episodes
Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids
SeriesEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast airedNetwork
1134 January 2000[18]27 March 2000[58]CITV
2139 April 2001[59]27 April 2001[60]
3121 July 2002[61]30 December 2002[62]
4142 April 200421 May 2004[63]
"The Crystal Eye"31 December 2004[63]
51327 March 2006[32]12 April 2006[64]
61318 September 2006[32]19 October[65] 2006[32][37][33]
Grizzly Tales: Cautionary Tales for Lovers of Squeam!
SeriesEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast airedNetwork
1132 May 201110 May 2011[66]NickToons UK
2135 September 20112 November 2012[67]

CITV cartoon

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  1. "The New Nanny" (aired 4 January 2000)[68]
  2. "The Spaghetti Man" (aired 11 January 2000)
  3. ""

Awards and nominations

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CITV series

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Year Award Category Nominee Result Ref
2000 Golden Gate Awards Silver Spire Award for Best Children's Program 1st place [69]
Cartoons on the Bay The Pulcinella Award for Best Series for Children Won [69]
Prix Jeunesse [de] Fiction 6 – 11 2nd [69]
International Animation and Cartoons Festival Best Short Film 2nd [69]
Bradford Animation Festival Best TV Series for Children Won [69]
RTS Devon & Cornwall Centre Awards Best Network Programme Won [69]
Royal Television Society Best Children's Entertainment Programme Nominated
2001 New York Festivals: TV Programming and Promotion Children's Programs Gold World Medal [69]
Golden Sheaf Awards Best International Children's Production Won [69]
2004 British Animation Awards Best Children's Series Won [69]
Children's Choice Award Won [69]
BAFTA Best Children's Series Nominated [69]
Most Original Writer Jamie Rix Nominated [69]
2005 BAFTA Best Children's Series Nominated
Most Original Writer Jamie Rix Nominated
2006 BAFTA Best Writer Jamie Rix Nominated [69]
Broadcast Awards Best Children's Programme Nominated [69]

Nickelodeon series

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Year Award Category Result Ref
2012 BAFTA Best Children's Series Nominated [69]
Broadcast Awards Best Children's Series Won

See also

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References

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ For Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids
  2. ^ For Grizzly Tales: Cautionary Tales for Lovers of Squeam![1]
  3. ^ later under Grizzly TV
  4. ^ £1,415,529.58 in 1998
  5. ^ £2,275,703.40 in 1998

Citations

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  2. ^ Rix (1998), p. 3.
  3. ^ McLean, Tom (18 June 2009). "Nick Revamps Grizzly for U.K." Animation Magazine. Retrieved 1 March 2020. A new series of 26 x 11 min. episodes of the award-winning animated series Grizzly Tales will be produced for the U.K. market and air on Nickelodeon UK.
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  14. ^ Fry, Andy (1 May 2000). "Nigel Pickard: Quick-change artist". Kidscreen. Retrieved 1 March 2020. CITV controller of kids programs Nigel Pickard is credited with making a major impact on CITV – for the better – in a remarkably short timeframe. [...] In the two years [written in 2000] since ITV controller of children's and youth programs
  15. ^ Fry, Andy (1 April 1999). "CITV hoards commissions and gives pilots a fighting chance". Kidscreen. Retrieved 29 February 2020. Animation shows that were green-lit by Pickard in 1998 include Watership Down (Alltime/Decode), Foxbusters (ITEL), Hilltop Hospital (Eva), Maisie (Scottish TV), Grizzly Tales, Vampires, Pirates and Aliens (ITEL), Little Grey Rabbit, Preston Pig and returning series like Kipper (HIT Entertainment), which has secured another 39 episodes.
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  19. ^ "The Gruesome Creatives". grizzlytales.blogspot.com. Blogspot. 6 April 2011. Archived from the original on 19 December 2019. Retrieved 11 November 2019. We created the character of the narrator so that the many different stories would have some kind of overall cohesion, like bookends.
  20. ^ "The First Digital Grizzly". grizzlytales.co.uk. 5 March 2011. Retrieved 2 March 2020. 2004 saw a move away from hand drawn to digital animation. The first Grizzly Tales in the new style was "A Grizzly New Year's Tale".
  21. ^ Rix, Jamie (8 April 1996). "The Dumb Clucks". Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids. Hodder Children's Group. ISBN 9780340640951.
  22. ^ "The Dumb Klutzes". Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids. Series 6. Episode 8. 17 October 2006. CITV.
  23. ^ "The Piranha Sisters". Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids. Series 6. Episode 12. 19 October 2006. CITV.
  24. ^ "The Grub A Blub Blub". Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids. Series 5. Episode 5. 31 March 2006. CITV.
  25. ^ Rix, Jamie (19 January 2001). "Knock Down Ginger". More Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids. Scholastic Books UK. p. 2. ISBN 9780439998185. Ginger Pie was a large, ungainly boy, with pale skin and light red hair. He was so fair that at a glance you could be forgiven for thinking he was bald.
  26. ^ a b c "The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping". Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids. Series 1. Episode 10. 6 March 2000. CITV.
  27. ^ "Knock Down Ginger". Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids. Series 3. Episode 2. 17 December 2002. CITV.
  28. ^ Rix, Jamie (8 April 1996). "Doctor Moribundus". Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids. Hodder Children's Books. ISBN 978-0340640951.
  29. ^ "Doctor Moribundus". Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids. Series 1. Episode 13. 27 March 2000. CITV.
  30. ^ Rix, Jamie (8 April 1996). "The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping". Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids. Hodder Children's Books. ISBN 978-0340640951.
  31. ^ "Toonhound – Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids (2000–2005)". toonhound.com. Retrieved 21 September 2019. Speaking of brevity, those naughty folks at CiTV inexcusably cut the 3D intro from Series 4, when it was first broadcast in 2004.
  32. ^ a b c d "Grizzly tales to come back on CiTV — News — Broadcast". Broadcast. 30 June 2005. CiTV has commissioned two new series of Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids from Honeycomb Animation and Elephant Productions. The Bafta-nominated series, narrated by Nigel Planer, is based on the successful books by Jamie Rix and will return to the screen in the new year for a 26 x 10-minute run.
  33. ^ a b Maxie Zeus (23 June 2005). "CiTV Picks Up More "Grizzly Tales"". Anime Superhero. Retrieved 2 March 2020. CiTV has ordered two new seasons of Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, c21 Media reports. The new seasons will be ready for broadcast in early 2006.
  34. ^ a b "Grizzly Tales return to CiTV". c21 Media. 22 June 2005. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  35. ^ a b Oatts, Joanne (13 July 2007). "'Art Attack' axed after 18 years". Digital Spy. Retrieved 1 March 2020. According to Broadcast, the programme is one of several shows that have not been recommissioned which also includes Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids and Jungle Run. CITV has also reduced its hours at the weekends, to allow for ITV4 to broadcast...
  36. ^ Thomas, Liz (27 February 2006). "ITV children's channel to focus on entertainment". The Stage. Retrieved 1 March 2020. Successful shows from its terrestrial portfolio including My Parents Are Aliens, Jungle Run and Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids...
  37. ^ a b "Back From the Grave". grizzlytales.co.uk. 16 September 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  38. ^ Moody, Annemarie (17 June 2009). "Nickelodeon Gets Grizzly". Animation World Network. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  39. ^ a b c "Nickelodeon – Grizzly Tales". grizzlytales.blogspot.com. Blogspot. June 2010. Archived from the original on 19 December 2019. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  40. ^ "Little Brother Productions – Official website". Little Brother Productions. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
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  42. ^ "Uncle Grizzly profile". Blogger. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  43. ^ "Where's Spindleshanks?". grizzlytales.co.uk. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
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  55. ^ "North American DVDs". grizzlytales.blogspot.com. Blogspot. 15 May 2008. Archived from the original on 19 December 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  56. ^ "Shock Release". grizzlytales.blogspot.com. Blogspot. Archived from the original on 19 December 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
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  • Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids
  • Grizzly Tales
GenreChildren's horror, Comedy[1]
Written byJamie Rix
Directed bySimon Bor
Sara Bor
Jamie Rix
StarringNigel Planer
ComposerEd Welch
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons6 (Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids)
2 (Grizzly Tales)
No. of episodes78 (+ 1 22-minute special)[a]
26[b]
Production
Executive producers
  • Michael Forte (series 1–3)[a]
  • David Mercer (series 4)[a]
Producers
  • Simon Bor
  • Sara Bor
  • Clive Hedges and Sarah Muller[a]
  • Jamie Rix
AnimatorsRichard Randolph, Nick Herbert,[a] Jon Miller, Daniel Mitchell, Oliver Knowles, Victoria Goy-Smith, Liam Williamson, Karen Elliott, and Christopher Bowles
Editors
  • Peter Beswick[a]
  • Nick Anderson and Keezer Tracy[b]
Running time10 minutes
Production companies
  • Honeycomb Productions
  • Grizzly TV
  • Little Brother Productions[c]
Original release
Network
Release2000 – 2007,[a]
2011 – 2012[b]
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