Kiddets
Five alien friends learn through play in their playroom.
Kiddets is a New Zealand children's TV show that first aired in 2018. A companion series to The WotWots, it blends computer animation with live-action footage. The program follows five alien characters exploring their playroom. One season of 52 episodes, each lasting 11 minutes, has been produced.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Children's television series; Comedy
- Creator
- Martin Baynton; Richard Taylor
- Writer
- Terri Baynton
- Peter Salmon
- Roxane Gaiadhar
- Sacha Cotter
- Sarah Harpur
- Lauren Jackson
- Director
- Matthew Darragh; Dries Naude
- Voices
- Ian Harcourt
- Richard Saade
- Debbie Fish
- Liz Mullane
- Jacob Rajan
- Simon Leary
- Emma Draper
- Narrator
- Martin Baynton
- Theme music
- David Long
- Country
- New Zealand; China
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Did You Know?
- The five Kiddets are named Patches, Dapper, Bounce, Stripes, and Luna.
- The characters occasionally reach out for help from SpottyWot and DottyWot on planet Earth.
Production
The spin-off series was announced in November 2015, when Pūkeko Pictures partnered with Chinese animation studio Guangdong Huawen Century Animation Company (now Hengxin Shambala Kids Cultural Industry Development Co., Ltd.) to produce Kiddets, marking the first children's television co-production between New Zealand and China. Martin Baynton and Richard Taylor, founders of Pūkeko Pictures and creators of The WotWots, served as creators of the sister series. On 2 October 2017, Pūkeko Pictures partnered with British distributor Cake Entertainment to handle worldwide distribution except for Australia, New Zealand, and China. The Kiddets characters and their space station are animated with occasional clips from The WotWots over live-action footage by Weta Workshop. Unlike its parent series, which was animated at Wētā Workshop, Kiddets was animated at Hengxin Shambala's subsidiary Blossom Pictures, though it used footage from The WotWots originally made at Wētā Workshop.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which network aired Kiddets?
Kiddets aired on TVNZ and Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
When did Kiddets first air?
Kiddets first aired on 3 September 2018.
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