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CBeebies out and about with LazyTown Extra
Michael Carrington, Controller, CBeebies, is delighted to announce
that the channel will show 26 episodes of LazyTown Extra, a brand
new action-packed magazine format style show for 3 to 6-year-olds.
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LazyTown Extra is co-produced by Lazytown Entertainment and ±«Óãtv Children's
Scotland. It will be shown exclusively on the CBeebies digital
channel.
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The new series will also feature locally filmed inserts which
star the ever popular LazyTown puppet character Ziggy and a
range of children from across the UK.
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Each episode will see
children talk to Ziggy about their favourite fun activities such
as playing basketball, visiting the zoo, growing vegetables and
going to the swimming pool.
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Filming of these inserts is due to
start in the UK in the summer.
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Each themed episode will be 14-minutes long and will feature all
of the LazyTown characters.
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Sportacus introduces the CBeebies
audience to an exercise of the day, Trixie and Stephanie are in
the kitchen creating fun SportsCandy recipes and Robbie Rotten
creates his usual mayhem.
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Michael Carrington said: "Motivating young children to be active
is really important to CBeebies, so when the opportunity arose to
inspire them by exploring different physical activities around
the UK in collaboration with one of their favourite LazyTown
characters, we jumped at the chance!"
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Magnus Scheving, CEO and Creator of Lazytown, added: "We are very
excited about this new format for LazyTown and delighted by the
positive reaction from our broadcast partners.
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"This takes the
LazyTown brand in a new direction opening up even more
opportunities."
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LazyTown Extra is produced by Angela Galvin and Executive
Produced by Sara Harkins in Scotland for CBeebies.
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