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BBC seeks Britain's answer to The Simpsons - with roast beef and all the trimmings

The BBC is planning to create British television’s answer to The Simpsons, in the hope of luring children away from Netflix.

The corporation has identified animated shows as a key reason why 7-12-year-olds spend time on streaming services.

The net has been cast for a British cartoon with the same hit potential - and if Homer Simpson loved his doughnuts, the stars of this homegrown show will prefer a nice Sunday lunch with all the trimmings.

Patricia Hidalgo, director of the BBC Children’s department, said she wants to commission an animated show that plays up to its Britishness - from the settings to the food that the characters eat.

“Imagine if we could have a British version of The Simpsons for children and families in the UK. That would be amazing, right?” Hidalgo said.

“Think about any of the American shows: the streets are very American-looking, they do Thanksgiving. All the things are very American in culture.

“We could set our characters in a British setting. When I’m talking now to some of the people I’m meeting, I’m basically saying, ‘What about roast beef instead of turkey when we have a family around the table?’ Why not infuse more of our culture? Mr Bean is fantastic and he is so British - think of the Mini.”

She said: “There’s a lot of great pre-school animation that the UK is known for, like Peppa Pig. What I want to focus on is the 7-12s, because there’s not that much for them.”

The CBBC channel is currently showing US cartoons bought in from rival networks. Hidalgo explained that this was a “tactic” designed to lure viewers from Netflix and other streaming platforms, before those shows are replaced with British content.

The other part of the BBC’s children’s strategy is to commission fewer shows, but produce more episodes of each. “We want to reduce the number of titles but build those titles into brands that children are going to love,” said Hidalgo. They include an adaptation of Malory Towers, which is returning for a second series.

While children prefer to watch programmes on demand via iPlayer, Hidalgo insisted that CBBC and CBeebies are safe for now.

"Two million children are tuning in to our channels every week and that's quite a significant number. We are the BBC, we have to be there for our audience and as long as there’s children that want or need to watch through the linear TV channels, we are going to have to be there for them," she said.

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Surely it's been tried before, hasn't it?
 
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TopCat said:
BBC seeks Britain's answer to The Simpsons - with roast beef and all the trimmings

The BBC is planning to create British television’s answer to The Simpsons, in the hope of luring children away from Netflix.

The corporation has identified animated shows as a key reason why 7-12-year-olds spend time on streaming services.

The net has been cast for a British cartoon with the same hit potential - and if Homer Simpson loved his doughnuts, the stars of this homegrown show will prefer a nice Sunday lunch with all the trimmings.

Patricia Hidalgo, director of the BBC Children’s department, said she wants to commission an animated show that plays up to its Britishness - from the settings to the food that the characters eat.

“Imagine if we could have a British version of The Simpsons for children and families in the UK. That would be amazing, right?” Hidalgo said.

“Think about any of the American shows: the streets are very American-looking, they do Thanksgiving. All the things are very American in culture.

“We could set our characters in a British setting. When I’m talking now to some of the people I’m meeting, I’m basically saying, ‘What about roast beef instead of turkey when we have a family around the table?’ Why not infuse more of our culture? Mr Bean is fantastic and he is so British - think of the Mini.”

She said: “There’s a lot of great pre-school animation that the UK is known for, like Peppa Pig. What I want to focus on is the 7-12s, because there’s not that much for them.”

The CBBC channel is currently showing US cartoons bought in from rival networks. Hidalgo explained that this was a “tactic” designed to lure viewers from Netflix and other streaming platforms, before those shows are replaced with British content.

The other part of the BBC’s children’s strategy is to commission fewer shows, but produce more episodes of each. “We want to reduce the number of titles but build those titles into brands that children are going to love,” said Hidalgo. They include an adaptation of Malory Towers, which is returning for a second series.

While children prefer to watch programmes on demand via iPlayer, Hidalgo insisted that CBBC and CBeebies are safe for now.

"Two million children are tuning in to our channels every week and that's quite a significant number. We are the BBC, we have to be there for our audience and as long as there’s children that want or need to watch through the linear TV channels, we are going to have to be there for them," she said.

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This feels 20+ years too late.
 
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How is the state media gonna create a counterculture show?
Also, lol at the idea that the simpsons is just for 7-12 years old. Tons of simpsons jokes are incomprehensible at that age.

I mean, making an overtly british cartoon portraying british life and sensibilities is not a bad idea but these mongs are gonna cock it up bigtime.
 
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Life is Hell... said:
Looks like Milano's at it again
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Mainly because someone made this pic
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As a lot of people already pointed out he’s being unnecessarily vitriolic about this, the Streisand effect is strong as hell on the internet and it even more apparent in the porn community. The better course of action would‘ve been for him to just not acknowledge it like many other show runners do.

Also, if major studios don’t have policies (like the one that Disney supposedly has) where they show new showrunners fanmade porn of past cartoons and EXPLICITLY mention that it’ll happen to their shows too then somebody in upper management needs gets a pink slip and given 24 hours to vacate the studio lot/building.
 
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Life is Hell... said:
Speaking of which... Ben Shapiro apparently talked about this on his show a few days ago
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Which resulted in the former SVP of Cartoon Network tweeting this
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And keep in mind, this asshole has also previously tweeted stuff like this
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lizard with a head for a pfp and tells someone to stfu...gee it's like lelash is trying to hide something :thinking:
 
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Watched Craig of the Creek for the first time the other day, was actually fairly decent. Happened upon the episode with that guy who 'members old CN shows. I'm sure you've seen the clip floating around on Twitter or whatever
 
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Steamboat_Bill said:
Surely it's been tried before, hasn't it?
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Really late to this reply but the closest I can think of would be Full English, which was more British Family Guy than British Simpsons.
Of course the last time anyone seriously tried to be like Simpsons was during the Clinton administration. You would have to seriously out of touch to think this would be a good idea for a Netflix killer.
 
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I never realized how much people liked the reboot for the 2011 version of Looney Tunes.


Maybe I should give this show another shot, since I treated it like Sonic Boom back when it was on CN. I thought it was OK, but it could have been a lot better.
 
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albert chan said:
I never realized how much people liked the reboot for the 2011 version of Looney Tunes.



Maybe I should give this show another shot, since I treated it like Sonic Boom back when it was on CN. I thought it was OK, but it could have been a lot better.
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I think the issue is that some people don't treat it as the sitcom it is going in. A lot of the humor is more subdued than classic Looney Tunes shorts, but when the joke hits, it hits. I agree with it being OK though.
 
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KingofNothing said:
I think the issue is that some people don't treat it as the sitcom it is going in. A lot of the humor is more subdued than classic Looney Tunes shorts, but when the joke hits, it hits. I agree with it being OK though.
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I think it was hilarious when Daffy turned into a US Marine and had to rescue Bugs from an Albanian(?) prison on a helicopter.
 
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XtrmGamr719 said:
I think it was hilarious when Daffy turned into a US Marine and had to rescue Bugs from an Albanian(?) prison on a helicopter.
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Looney tunes show daffy is absolutely my favorite iteration of him. A shame we'll probably never see tina again, I liked her and daffys dynamic and was a fitting counterpart to lola.


 
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