Paper Owl Movies’ Glad the Hoglet, an animated preschool collection geared toward serving to youngsters overcome destructive emotions and benefit from optimistic feelings, was greenlit for a second season. Each its broadcasters, ITV and RTÉjr, have recommissioned the present after its profitable launch in November 2022. Manufacturing of the subsequent 26 episodes will begin late 2024.
Glad the Hoglet follows a child hedgehog’s adventures along with his mates as they discover their emotions. Every episode focuses on an journey throughout which Glad learns to know feelings, from feeling excited to ‘hangry’ or feeling like he simply wants a quiet minute.
Grainne McGuinness, Inventive Director at Paper Owl Movies, commented, “Toddlers have to be taught emotional resilience sooner than ever given the world they’re set to develop up in. The response to the primary collection of Glad has been big.”
“We’re extraordinarily delighted with the efficiency of Glad throughout our platforms,” stated Darren Nartey, Acquisitions Supervisor at ITV. “It is an exquisite, participating and well-written present, and our younger viewers have responded very well to it.”
Suzanne Kelly, Head of Kids’s Content material at RTÉ, acknowledged, “Glad the Hoglet and his great bunch of mates reassure RTÉjr viewers that irrespective of how grumpy, unhappy or cross we’re, we are able to work by means of it collectively. I’m actually enthusiastic about Glad the Hoglet on RTÉjr. Everybody might do with some Glad proper now!”
Aardman is the distributor for Season 1 and a pair of of the present.
Supply: Paper Owl Movies
Whitney is a contract author specializing in VFX-driven fantasy movie & TV in addition to preschool animation.
