Lily's Driftwood Bay facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Lily's Driftwood Bay
Genre	Animated cartoon series
Created by	Colin Williams
Directed by	Colin Williams and Darren Vandenburg (Season 1) Tim Harper (Season 2)
Voices of	Peter Mullan Orlagh O’Keefe Annette Crosbie Tameka Empson Ardal O'Hanlon Jane Horrocks Stephen Fry Richard Dormer Paul Currie
Music by	Score Draw Music
Country of origin	Northern Ireland
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	100 (list of episodes)
Production
Editor(s)	Brian Philip Davis
Running time	7 minutes
Production company(s)	Sixteen South Ingenious Media
Distributor	Henson Independent Properties
Release
Original network	United Kingdom and Ireland Nick Jr. Germany KiKA
Original release	5 May 2014 (2014-05-05) – 5 November 2017 (2017-11-05)

Lily's Driftwood Bay is a 2014 Northern Irish 2D animated mixed-media television series for children. Produced in Northern Ireland, the series premiered on Nick Jr. in the UK and Ireland on 5 May 2014 and it ended on 5 November 2017. It is created and produced by Sixteen South in association with Ingenious Media and with the participation of Nick Jr. and KiKA for season 2. It is based on an original idea and characters by Joanne Carmichael. The show uses paper cut-out animation.

Plot

A young sea-treasure hunter named Lily and her Dad live in a beach hut on an otherwise deserted beach. They give the impression of a family living 'off grid' with their patched clothes and Dad's plain look - their transport is an old van, and Lily having only a seagull for friendship and most of her toys composed of 'sea treasure' found on the beach.

In episode 35 "Goodbye Seabird" Lily is presented a framed photograph, from her father, showing a slightly younger Lily, her father and a blonde-haired lady by her father's side. The episode deals with the death of a seabird on Driftwood Bay and a suggestion could be that Lily's mother recently died given that Lily appears only a couple of years younger in the photograph.

Characters

Main

• Salty Dog (Peter Mullan): Salty is a Scottish dog and the captain of a boat called "Delilah." He lives on Driftwood Bay. His catchphrases are "All aboard for Driftwood Bay!", "Land ho!", "Aye, aye, young Lily!", "Welcome aboard, Old Delilah!", "Golden goose caps!", "Moldering mudskippers!", "Lumbering lobsters!" and "Slippery scallions!" Salty takes Lily to Driftwood Bay on Old Delilah. Salty seems to be in love with Hatsie Hen.
• Lily (Orlagh O’Keefe): The protagonist of the series, an imaginative, happy-go-lucky, cheerful and feisty young 5-year-old Northern Irish red-headed girl with a vivid imagination. Lily is always accompanied by her best friend, Gull (a Seagull) who often spies "sea treasure" that is washed up on the shore by her beach hut. Once Lily finds the sea treasure, she wonders what it could be, and gets whisked away to Driftwood Bay, an island that exists only in her imagination. During the title sequence Lily creates pictures of her animal friends with things that have washed up on the beach, which come to life on Driftwood Bay. Her catchphrases are "Sea treasure!", "Every day, a new adventure washes up on the beach!", "Hoop-dee-doo!", "Hooray!", "Across the way on Driftwood Bay!", "Come on, Gull!", "Aye, aye, Captain Salty!" and "What is it, Gull?"
• Bull Dozer (Ardal O'Hanlon): Bull is an Irish bull who wears a red neckerchief (or scarf) and lives on Driftwood Bay.
• Nonna Dog (Annette Crosbie): Nonna is a Scottish dog who is Salty's older sister and the owner of the Cockle Cafe on Driftwood Bay.
• Hatsie Hen (Tameka Empson): Hatsie is a train-driving English hen who wears goggles at great speed and Salty seems to be in love with. She lives on Driftwood Bay.
• Wee Rabbit (Jane Horrocks): Wee Rabbit is a Welsh rabbit who wears a pink dress and lives on Driftwood Bay. She is shy and loves art.
• Lord Stag (Stephen Fry): Lord Stag is an English stag who wears a head reflector and lives in Stag Castle on Driftwood Bay.
• Dad (Richard Dormer): Lily's Dad who loves her and stays at home, always there when she returns from her adventures.
• Gull (Paul Currie): Gull is Lily's best friend who is a seagull and is very squawky and talkative.
• Puffin (Paul Currie): Puffin, as his name implies, is a puffin who lives on Driftwood Bay.

Special guests

• Noleen Hen (Dolly Parton): Noleen is a famous American country singer/songwriter and guitarist who gets washed up in a storm on Driftwood Bay. She appears in the episode "The Salty Chicken."
• Dredger Tom Fox (Robert Brydon): Dredger Tom Fox is the antagonist of the series. Tom is a seafaring Welsh silver fox who is Nonna's former childhood sweetheart. He appears in the episode "The Proposal."
• Roweena Rabbit (Imelda Staunton) is Wee Rabbit's sister who appears in "Fabulous Darling"

Episodes

Season 1 (2014)

Season 2 (2017)

Home video history

• UK
  • Abbey Home Media Group (2016)
• USA
  • NCircle Entertainment (2016)

Broadcast

The series premiered on Universal Kids in the United States on 12 May and on ABC in Australia on 19 May 2014. In Ireland, it airs on RTÉ. It used to air on Channel 5 - Milkshake! in the UK from 2015 to 2017, It now airs on LittleBe. Piwi+ in France in August 2016. In Canada it was broadcast on Family Jr. on September 3, 2016, then season 2 aired on TVO Kids in August 2017.