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IRISH ANIMATION STUDIO JAM Media was presented with a BAFTA Drama Award at the awards ceremony in London on Sunday night for their long-standing CBBC series ‘Roy’.
Dublin based Boulder Media also won a children’s BAFTA’s for best animation and best script for the ‘Amazing World of Gumball’.
Commenting on the win CEO, John Rice said, “This is the third time we have been nominated so we are obviously thrilled that we have won a BAFTA.”
“The competition was stiff and this award, coming just after the re-commission of a double series of Roy by CBBC, proves that the series and the character of Roy really seems to resonate with viewers in the UK, Ireland and beyond.”
Shot as a fly on the wall documentary, cartoon character Roy lives in the real world. The series lets kids gain access into Roy’s unique life and see that despite his obvious physical differences, inside, he is just the same as they are. They see too how being “different” gets Roy tormented and makers of the show say it magnifies every child’s desire to fit in and be accepted.
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When announcing the re-commission last month, CBBC Controller, Cheryl Taylor commented: “Roy has a really distinctive visual style and an engaging tone which explores some of the more tricky elements of growing up with rare charm and humour.”
2012 has been a good year for JAM Media as earlier this year, the company also won the Cartoon Forum Producer of the Year Award.
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Well done to RTE for supporting this, oh wait…
Who in RTE decides that “Father Ted/Mrs Brown/Moon Boy/Badly Drawn Roy…sure they’ll never take off..”
father Ted was never offered to RTE. gets annoying that people complain with facts wrong.might be the same here.Bbc much bigger budget than rte.
fr Ted was never offered to rte.could be the same here. bbc much bigger budget.
Father Ted had its first two series shown and repeated on Channel 4 before rte took it on.
As Graham Linehan said “Why we would we give the scripts to RTÉ? That would be like giving them to Waterford Glass, we just knew they wouldn’t be capable of making a show like Ted.”
So no it wasn’t offered to RTE, but it’s clear why.
Thats great news, congrats
i have two kids and living in Norway and its on tv here
The kids love it even though its dubbed
Brilliant show my kids love it and myself and the husband watch it too. Well done to all involved
Great stuff for JAM, love to see us doing well abroad but I’m Sure we are bound to get the odd miserable sod posting some negativity.
Well done guys. Some great animation going on in Dublin.
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