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In the Night Garden - The Inspiration Behind The New Children's TV Show by Keith Scott
In the Night Garden is a children's television show which can be described as a modern take on a traditional nursery rhyme picture book, featuring many characters based around a variety of toys, living together in a fantasy woodland world within a happy and caring community.
In the Night Garden is aimed at babies and pre-school children aged 1-5 and has been created by the inventors of the Teletubbies, Anne Wood and Andy Davenport. The programme is designed to both relax and amuse young children. Each episode takes children on a journey that is sure to spark their imagination as they travel through the magical world encountering a variety of unique characters. Kids are encouraged to interact in their own way with each individual character. The BBC has commissioned 100 episodes, with a total budget of £14.5 million. In the Night Garden has been filmed in an actual woodland location that gives a compelling and realistic experience for a younger audience.
Each character that lives in the Night Garden interacts and cares for one another despite dramatic differences in their individual sizes, and everyone has their own distinctive song and dance. The wonderfully silly inhabitants of the Night Garden include IgglePiggle, Upsy Daisy, Makka Pakka, the Tombliboos and the Pontipines. The characters have a couple of modes of transport that they can use to travel around their magical woodland world, The Ninky Nonk, which is an exciting looking train that has five carriages each with a different colour and design. The Pinky Ponk is a green airship with many moving fins on the side; it makes some strange noises whilst in flight!
The inspiration for the Night Garden has come from the way young children are exposed to the harrowing happenings in the world today, bombarded by the 24-hour news culture that is prevalent in much of modern television media. In the Night Garden appears extremely surreal to older viewers who often fail to grasp exactly what is going on. The characters are caring and benevolent but do not seem to do much during an episode. The simplicity and the repetitive nature of the programme is reminiscent of the way the Teletubbies interacted with their young audience. This is the key to the success of In the Night Garden, the characters are engaging and loveable, young viewers relate to them in a variety of different ways. But one thing is for sure, In the Night Garden captures a young viewers imagination like no other television show.
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