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CBeebies out and about with LazyTown Extra
Michael Carrington, Controller, CBeebies, is delighted to announce that the channel will show 26 episodes of LazyTown Extra, a brand new action-packed magazine format style show for 3 to 6-year-olds. LazyTown Extra is co-produced by Lazytown Entertainment and BBC Children's Scotland. It will be shown exclusively on the CBeebies digital channel. The new series will also feature locally filmed inserts which star the ever popular LazyTown puppet character Ziggy and a range of children from across the UK. Each episode will see children talk to Ziggy about their favourite fun activities such as playing basketball, visiting the zoo, growing vegetables and going to the swimming pool. Filming of these inserts is due to start in the UK in the summer. Each themed episode will be 14-minutes long and will feature all of the LazyTown characters. Sportacus introduces the CBeebies audience to an exercise of the day, Trixie and Stephanie are in the kitchen creating fun SportsCandy recipes and Robbie Rotten creates his usual mayhem. Michael Carrington said: "Motivating young children to be active is really important to CBeebies, so when the opportunity arose to inspire them by exploring different physical activities around the UK in collaboration with one of their favourite LazyTown characters, we jumped at the chance!" Magnus Scheving, CEO and Creator of Lazytown, added: "We are very excited about this new format for LazyTown and delighted by the positive reaction from our broadcast partners. "This takes the LazyTown brand in a new direction opening up even more opportunities." LazyTown Extra is produced by Angela Galvin and Executive Produced by Sara Harkins in Scotland for CBeebies. TD
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