Kiddets facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Kiddets |
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| Genre | Children's Television Series Comedy Animation Live Action CGI |
| Created by | Martin Baynton Richard Taylor |
| Written by | Terri Baynton Peter Salmon Roxane Gaiadhar Sacha Cotter Sarah Harpur Lauren Jackson |
| Directed by | Matthew Darragh Dries Naude |
| Voices of | Ian Harcourt Richard Saade Debbie Fish Liz Mullane Jacob Rajan Simon Leary Emma Draper |
| Narrated by | Martin Baynton |
| Theme music composer | David Long |
| Composer(s) | David Long |
| Country of origin | New Zealand |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 52 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Martin Baynton Richard Taylor Clive Spink Jianfeng Wen Bing Wang Lisa Chatfield |
| Producer(s) | Angela Littlejohn Jan Haynes Jane Robertson |
| Production location(s) | New Zealand China |
| Editor(s) | Owen Ferrier-Kerr |
| Running time | 11 minutes (television series) |
| Production company(s) | Pukeko Pictures Hengxin Shambala Kids Cultural Industry Development Co., Ltd. |
| Release | |
| Original network | TVNZ Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| First shown in | Australia |
| Original release | 3 September 2018 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The WotWots |
Kiddets is a New Zealand children's television show which debuted in 2018 and sister series to The WotWots. Created by Martin Baynton and Richard Taylor, the series uses computer animation mixed with live-action clips to follow five alien friends as they learn about life in their playroom. It currently consists of one series and a total of 52 eleven-minute episodes.
Plot
The show follows five young alien friends called "Kiddets" each with an area of interest and learning; Patches (health and safety), Dapper (arts and culture), Bounce (mechanics), Stripes (leadership) and Luna (science). They are space cadets, explorers-in-training at a space academy on planet WotWot. They learn through play in their playroom that overlooks a space port floating above their planet and occasionally reach out for help from SpottyWot and DottyWot on planet Earth.
Production
Kiddets was created and developed by children's author Martin Baynton in partnership with filmmaker Richard Taylor. Kiddets is co-produced by Pukeko Pictures and Hengxin Shambala Kids Cultural Industry Development Co., Ltd. (formerly Guangdong Huawen Century Animation Company) and is the first official children’s television co-production between New Zealand and China.
The Kiddets characters and their space station are computer-animated with occasional clips from The WotWots over live-action footage by the Weta Workshop, the visual effects company founded by Taylor and Rodger, known for its work on the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
Broadcast details
| Country | Broadcaster | Screen date |
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| New Zealand | TVNZ 2, TVNZ On-Demand, TVNZ HeiHei | 17 September 2018 |
| Australia | ABC1, ABC2, ABC Kids | 3 April 2018. |
| China | China Central Television | December 2018 |
| United Kingdom | CBeebies | 21 September 2020 |
