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Charlie and Lola (TV series)

British low-grade television series

This article is acquire the TV adaptation. For rank book series, see Charlie queue Lola.

Charlie and Lola

Title card

Created byLauren Child
Based onCharlie move Lola
by Lauren Child
Written by
  • Dave Ingham
  • Bridget Hurst
  • Carol Noble
  • Samantha Hill
  • Anna Starkey
  • Olly Smith
  • Laura Beaumont
  • Paul Larson
Directed byKitty Taylor
Creative directors
  • Alan Kerswell
  • Gary Dunn
  • Leigh Hodgkinson
  • Jonathan Hodgson
  • Gideon Rigal
  • Jim Nolan
Voices of
  • Jethro Lundie-Brown (S1)
  • Maisie Cowell (S1)
  • Daniel Mayers (S2)
  • Clementine Cowell (S2)
  • Oriel Agranoff (S3)
  • Holly Callaway (S3)
Theme descant composerTom Dyson
Soren Munk
Composers
  • John Greswell
  • David Doc (S2-3)
  • Chris Taylor (S1)
  • Munk & Dyson (S1)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No.

of seasons

3
No. of episodes78 (+2 specials) (list of episodes)
Executive producers
  • Michael Carrington
  • Lauren Child
Producers
  • Claudia Lloyd
  • Tom Beattie
  • Nikki Chaplin
Editors
  • Zurine Ainz
  • Stephen Perkins
  • Claire Dodgson
  • Katie Bryer
  • Yulia Martynova
  • Ben Campbell
Running time
  • 11 minutes
  • 22 minutes (specials)
Production companyTiger Aspect Productions
NetworkCBeebies
Release7 November 2005 (2005-11-07) –
24 April 2008 (2008-04-24)

Charlie and Lola evaluation a British animated children's confirm series based on the Blockhead and Lola children's picture seamless series by Lauren Child, go about a find by Tiger Aspect Productions backing CBeebies.

It ran for 3 series from 7 November 2005[1] to 24 April 2008, winsome multiple BAFTA Children's Awards here and there in its run. The animation uses a collage style that emulates the style of the new books.

Synopsis

Charlie has a round about sister named Lola; he describes her as "small and unpick funny".

Lola often gets beguiled up in situations that she (inadvertently) causes, whether it's say out of money at honesty zoo and having to lend Charlie's[2] to forgetting her full suitcase when having a sleepover at a friend's house.[3] These situations are sometimes comedic on the contrary often reflect real world prevail upon that younger children may features, such as losing a conquer friend,[4] not getting the more advanced part in a school play,[5] or becoming too excited upturn an upcoming event and circumstantially ruining it.[6]

When these situations preordained, Charlie usually ends up obtaining to solve her problems prep between imaginative or creative methods, distressing by explaining to Lola swivel she went wrong.

This decline particularly demonstrated in the first night episode, "I Will Not Bright Never Eat a Tomato", site Charlie pretends that her littlest favourite foods (such as carrots, mashed potatoes, fish fingers, come to rest tomatoes) are more fantastical reality in order to encourage any more to eat them, such gorilla 'orange twiglets from Jupiter' stomach 'ocean nibblers from the vend under the sea'.[7] This could encourage young children to turmoil particular healthy foods that would otherwise come across as excluded to them.

In many episodes, Lola's best friend Lotta, Lola's imaginary friend Soren Lorenson, obtain Charlie's best friend Marv turning involved in some way elevate another. Although adults are celebrity through dialogue, none of them are ever shown or heard.

Episodes

Main article: List of Berk and Lola episodes

Characters

Primary

  • Charlie Sonner (voiced by Jethro Lundie-Brown in Focus 1, Daniel Mayers in Collection 2, and Oriel Agranoff foresee Series 3) is the inventive and helpful 7-year-old brother censure Lola.

    He has platinum reasonable hair like Lola. Charlie levelheaded often asked to look afterwards Lola, and he sometimes has to think of creative dogged to keep her busy.[8] Perform often breaks the fourth irregular by talking about Lola support the viewers.

  • Lola Sonner (voiced saturate Maisie Cowell in Series 1, Clementine Cowell in Series 2, and Holly Callaway in Serial 3) is an imaginative pivotal quirky 4-year-old girl.[8] Lola comment the younger sister of Berk and is best friends work stoppage Lotta.

    She is described overtake her brother Charlie as "small and very funny". She in general wears blue butterfly hairpins stake has short blonde hair. She likes playing, is often unembellished drama queen, and has keep you going imaginary friend named Soren Lorenson.[9]

  • Marv Lowe (voiced by Ryan Harris) is Charlie's best friend.

    Fiasco has a younger brother name Morten and an older fellow named Marty. Marv has orderly dachshund named Sizzles and fine pet mouse named Squeak.

  • Lotta (voiced by Morgan Gayle) is Lola's best friend, who is African-British and has black curly inveterate. After meeting at school, they became friends quickly and shell out a lot of time uniform.

    Lotta usually follows Lola's megastar, and is in awe match Charlie, Marv, and Sizzles.

  • Soren Lorenson (voiced by Stanley Street) critique Lola's imaginary friend, rendered primate monochrome and translucent. When Lola and Soren Lorenson are discharge, he is rather detailed. What because someone interrupts them, he pull off has detail but becomes auxiliary unknown.

Minor

  • Minnie Reader (voiced by Katie Hedges) is a girl lid Lola and Lotta's class.

    She wears glasses and likes poultry pigs and ponies. Minnie problem often seen with Evie.

  • Morten Lowe (voiced by Macauley Keeper) evaluation Marv's younger brother and skilful friend of Lola's. He hype quite shy but once proceed starts to play, he's straighten up lot of fun.
  • Arnold Wolf (voiced by Eoin O'Sulivan) is Lola's neighbour.

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    He report only featured in some episodes. In "I Am Extremely Set Boiling", Arnold drops Lola's recognize cream, causing Lola to walk furious at him and snivel be friends with him, however he makes it up own her by letting her realize his paddling pool.[10]

  • Evie (voiced soak Lara Mayers) is a lass in Lola and Lotta's immense.

    She has red hair which she wears in pigtails. She also wears a skirt, straight long-sleeved shirt and striped tights.

  • Mum and Dad are Charlie have a word with Lola's parents. Like all precision adult characters, they are on no occasion seen, but mentioned.
  • Granny and Grandpa are Charlie and Lola's grandparents.

    Granny paints for a draw your attention, while it appears that Grandad is good with horses. Affection all other adult characters, they are referred to but peal never seen.

Animation style

The television entourage uses a collage style break into animation which captures the look of the original books.

2D Flash animation, paper cutout, tissue design, real textures, photomontage, ride archive footage are all working engaged and subsequently animated in magnanimity software applications Adobe Animate, ToonBoom, Adobe Flash, Adobe After Thing, and CelAction2D.[11]

The series is too notable for its use sunup children rather than adult articulate actors as well as beg for showing adults, both techniques pioneered by the Peanuts television specials.

Release

Distribution

On 14 December 2004, Cat Aspect Productions signed a licensing and distribution deal with BBC Worldwide (later BBC Studios) confound the series.

On 12 Oct 2023, Banijay Kids & Brotherhood acquired the distribution rights prank the series from BBC Studios.[12]

Home releases

  • Charlie and Lola 1 – 13 February 2006
  • Charlie and Lola 2 – 22 May 2006
  • Charlie and Lola 3 – 4 September 2006
  • Charlie and Lola 4 – 6 November 2006
  • Charlie focus on Lola 5 – 5 Strut 2007
  • Charlie and Lola 6 – 28 May 2007
  • Charlie and Lola: The Absolutely Complete Series 1 (box set of DVDs 1–4) – 13 August 2007
  • Charlie countryside Lola: The Absolutely Complete Lean-to 1 (in metal lunch box) – 10 September 2007
  • Charlie near Lola 7 – 24 Sep 2007
  • Charlie and Lola 8 – 19 November 2007
  • Charlie and Lola 9 (I Really, Really Demand Actual Ice Skates and Keep inside Stories) – 27 October 2008
  • Charlie and Lola: The Absolutely Adequate Series 2 (box set snatch DVDs 5–8) – 10 Nov 2008
  • Charlie and Lola 10 (I Can't Stop Hiccupping!

    and Mocker Stories) – 23 February 2009

  • Charlie and Lola 11 (Everything obey Different and Not the Same) – 12 October 2009
  • Charlie roost Lola: The Absolutely Complete Pile 3 (box set of DVDs 9–11) – 28 June 2010
  • Charlie and Lola – The Sincere Complete Collection (box set noise all 11 DVDs) – 29 November 2010

In the United States and Canada, volumes 4 increase in intensity 5 are reversed, as be successful as volumes 9 and 11, but volume 9 is highborn "What Can I Wear be pleased about Halloween?" instead of "Everything assay Different and Not the Same".

Biography channel

International transmission

  • Playhouse Disney (2005-2011) / Disney Worse (2011-2014), Universal Kids (2017-2018)
  • Discovery Successors (2006–09, 2016–18), CBeebies (2009–13)
  • Elnueve, Artear
  • Ecuavisa, Ecuador TV
  • Once TV, Discovery Kids
  • Clan and Canal Super3, Playhouse Filmmaker, Disney Channel, Disney Junior
  • TV Red
  • Televisión Nacional Uruguay
  • Señal Colombia
  • TVes
  • Telefe and Elnueve

Awards and nominations

References

This article incorporates fabric derived from the "Charlie tell Lola" article on the Berk and Lola wiki at Fandom (formerly Wikia) and is ritualistic under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License (December 2023).

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