Sky introduced that it has commissioned a 3rd season of the BAFTA Scotland award-winning children’ sequence The Good World of Tom Gates (20×11’) from TG Leisure Restricted. The brand new batch is at the moment in manufacturing and shall be out there on the Sky Youngsters channel and on demand, in addition to on streaming service NOW within the U.Ok. & R.O.I. in early 2024.
“We all know how a lot our audiences are loving Tom Gates, so we’re delighted to be bringing a 3rd sequence of The Good World of Tom Gates to screens; full of all of the comedy, escapades and creativity Tom’s loyal followers anticipate,” mentioned Lucy Murphy, Director of Youngsters Content material at Sky U.Ok. & Eire.
Ken Anderson & Arabella Web page Croft of TG Leisure Ltd., govt producers on Tom Gates, mentioned, “We’re thrilled that Sky Youngsters has commissioned one other sequence of The Good World of Tom Gates. We’re already in manufacturing and having nice enjoyable planning extra hilarious and epic exploits for Tom and his friends.”
Along with the fee, international kids’s media and distribution firm WildBrain has secured extra worldwide gross sales for the present. Tom’s entertaining exploits will air in new territories via TV3-Televisió de Catalunya’s kids’s channel SX3 (Spain) for Seasons 1 & 2 and each the Christmas and Halloween specials, Showmax (Africa) for Seasons 1 & 2 and Information (Canada) the Halloween particular. WildBrain is international distributor for The Good World of Tom Gates exterior the U.Ok., together with each the Halloween and Christmas specials.
The Good World of Tom Gates is a Sky Unique children’ sequence that includes a modular mixed-media journal format, primarily based on the award-winning, multi-million-copy-bestselling Tom Gates books written and illustrated by Liz Pichon and revealed by Scholastic.
A mix of 2D and stop-motion animation with stay motion, the sequence blends Tom’s humorous antics and faculty life with crafting concepts and makes for viewers to recreate, together with interactive video games, gags and catchy songs.
Season 3 will see wonderful doodler and enthusiastic avoider of homework (however not caramel wafers) Tom embark on extra rib-tickling adventures at house and faculty, together with his family and friends. Favourite characters akin to frenemy Marcus and pals Leroy and Indrani return for extra enjoyable and new characters, Celeste and Equipment be part of the gang. New episodes will see Tom’s band, The Canine Zombies’ place as musical high canine underneath menace from a mysterious new band; Tom faces his worst nightmare as he will get caught in a carry with Marcus; and Leroy conjures up confusion with a mysterious magic field.
The returning voice solid together with Mark Bonnar (Line of Obligation, Shetland), Catherine Tate (Catherine Tate Present, Physician Who, Billionaire Boy) and Logan Matthews as Tom are joined by Daya Singh Atwal as Mark, Leshanty Bonsu as Florence and Abby Wallace as Amy.
The brand new season will even function 10 new tunes penned by songwriter Mark Flannery.
The Good World of Tom Gates is produced by TG Leisure Ltd. – an organization collectively owned by Black Camel Photos and Wild Baby Animation. Government producers are Anderson from Wild Baby Animation, Croft from Black Camel, author-illustrator Pichon and Ian France, Commissioning Editor at Sky. The sequence director is George Sawyer and sequence producer is Sueann Rochester. Head author on the present Ben Ward is joined by new writing expertise Jo Neary, Nadia Shireen and Sarah Mills for S3, and animation manufacturing providers are offered by Wild Baby Animation.
Pichon’s award-winning guide sequence has bought greater than 16 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 47 languages. The closely illustrated novels, in handwritten font with Tom’s doodles and photos embellishing the textual content, doc in hilarious and relatable element his on a regular basis trials and tribulations at house and faculty. The twenty first guide within the sequence, Tom Gates: 5 Star Tales (Hooray!), shall be launched in September.
