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2008 British comedy television series From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Big & Small is a children's television series aimed at preschoolers following the lives of two very different best friends named Big and Small. Big & Small is a co-production between Kindle Entertainment and 3J's Productions produced in association with the BBC, Treehouse TV, and Studio 100.[1] Three series were aired between 2008 and 2011.
Big & Small | |
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Genre | Children's comedy Musical |
Created by | Kindle Entertainment |
Voices of | Lenny Henry (UK; Series 1–3) Todd Doldersum (CAN; Series 1-3) Jason Hopley (CAN; Series 1-3) Imelda Staunton (UK; Series 1–2) Tamsin Heatley (UK; Series 3) |
Opening theme | "The Big and Small Song" by Lenny Henry (UK)/"The Big and Small Song" by Todd Doldersum & Jason Hopley (CAN) |
Country of origin | United Kingdom Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 3 |
No. of episodes | 78 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Anne Brogan |
Producers | David Collier Shannon Summerling |
Running time | 11 minutes |
Production companies | Kindle Entertainment 3J's Productions Sixteen South (series 3) Studio 100 |
Original release | |
Network | CBeebies (United Kingdom) Treehouse TV (Canada) S4C (Welsh) |
Release | 6 October 2008 – 7 November 2011 |
The show starts off with the characters doing various things, such as playing a game, or building an invention. There is then a conflict between the characters that leads to the main plot of the episode. The characters then resolve their conflict before the end of the episode. There is always at least one song per episode, which is filmed in shadowmation.[citation needed]
In the United Kingdom, Big & Small was shown on CBeebies, BBC1, and BBC2,[2] as well as Cyw in Wales.[3] Treehouse TV aired Big & Small in Canada. In total, over 40 channels worldwide have featured the programme.[3]
On March 12, 2009, ITV Global Entertainment secured the UK Home Media rights to the series. Through their ITV DVD label, the company released "We're Big & Small!" on March 30.[4] The UK version contains the first eight episodes of Series 1 as well as three bonus shorts, while the Canadian version released by Treehouse TV omits the shorts and only includes the first five episodes.
Two further DVDs were released in the UK: "Starry, Starry Night", containing episodes 9 to 16 of Series 1, and "The Biggest Story", containing episodes 1 to 5 and episode 16 of Series 3; the former released by ITV Studios, and the latter released by Abbey Home Media. In Canada, Treehouse TV released "Party Time!", containing five assorted episodes from Series 1 and 2.
Series | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 26 | 6 October 2008 | 7 November 2008 | |
2 | 26 | 19 October 2009 | 23 November 2009 | |
3 | 26 | 12 September 2011 | 7 November 2011 |
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