In the Night Garden... (yes, the ellipsis is usually a part of the title) is a kid's TV show that is made for very small kids in the age range of one to four years old. It was developed to be part of the BBC's Children's Television Series, and is produced by Andrew Davenport and Ann Wood through Ragdoll Productions. Filmed in live motion for the most part and featuring a mix of costumed actors (who involve Holly Denoon, Rebecca Hyland, Nick Kellington, Andy Wareham, Elisa Laghi, Justyn Towler, and Isaac Blake), puppetry, and computer animation, it is narrated by famed British Shakespearean actor Derek Jacobi. A great deal of In The Night Garden toy items and merchandise has been made based on the Television program.
In the Night Garden... was designed to both entertain and relax its particularly young viewing audience. Ann Wood speaks of it, "We wanted to explore the difference between being asleep and being awake from a child's point of view: the big difference in between closing your eyes and pretending to be asleep and closing your eyes and sleeping." She goes on to say "We became very aware of the concern surrounding the care of young children which manifested itself in all sort of directions - but the one major subject that came up again and again was bedtime. It is the classic time for tension between children who want to stay up and mums and dads who want them to go to bed...so this is a programme about calming things down whereas most children's TV is about gee-ing every thing up!"
In the Night Garden...is populated by strange and wondrous characters with unusual names. They stay in a place comprising sparsely wooded grassland, rather large daisies, and balls of colorful, bright flowers. Every single episode of the show starts off with some different youngster asleep in bed as the voice of Jacobi introduces the episode. Next, the scene cuts to the blue character with the red mohikan named Igglepiggle (played by Kellington) who, in his boat, wends his way to the Night Garden. Every single episode culminates with one character to generally be told a bedtime story. This story is engendered by the "Magic Roundabout" gazebo which has been erected at the heart of the Night Garden. The bedtime story is a summary of the plot of that particular episode. The characters may also sing and dance with each other in or round the gazebo. Igglepiggle, however, never goes to rest, and his goodbye sequence closing out the show always goes "Igglepiggle's not in bed!" "[Squeak]" "Do not worry, Igglepiggle, it is time to go." Then the Night Garden flows upward into the night time sky and at very last Igglepiggle is observed to be sleeping on his little boat, his at all times present red blanket doubling as the boat's sail, while the credits scroll.
In the Night Garden...was announced in October 2005, with twenty episodes to be broadcast in March of 2007. Two series totaling 100 episodes were produced, with the final 1 airing on March 9th, 2009. In 2010 the BBC announced that it would "not be commissioning an additional series".
Today, In the Night Garden lives on in DVD recordings of the original TV series. It also lives on in a line of very popular In The Night Garden toys for little ones.
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