Five Minutes More (TV series)

Production

The programme was announced on 8 December 2005 during ABC Enterprises' Children's Television Special Project, when the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Disney Channels Worldwide commissioned an Australian/British puppet television series titled Five Minutes More for ABC's channel ABC2 (now ABC Family) and Disney's Playhouse Disney channels in Europe. The series was created by Bambaloo creators Donna Andrews and Justine Flynn, whose Australian television production outfit Buster Dandy Productions would produce alongside British production company Snow River Media. Buster Dandy Productions later merged with Sticky Pictures on 27 January 2010. Angus Fletcher, founder of Snow River Media and former Jim Henson Television executive, served as executive producer, while ABC Enterprises handled worldwide distribution. Consequently, London-based puppet production studio Solution Studios (now Puppet Magic Studio), founded by Daniel Byrne, assumed the role of producing, designing, and building the puppet characters. Paul Jomain, who had previously made puppets for Bambaloo and Jim Henson productions Mopatop's Shop and The Hoobs, made costumes for them. All sets are cardboard, and costumes are made with quilt fabric of the same type used on the bed where the characters sit to tell stories. The quilt is specially made with square pictures mostly based on stories that are about to be or have already been told. The series was shot in eight weeks in Australia and dubbed in Britain.