RIP - Calon    (28.07.10)
  

   It's so sad to hear that Calon TV have gone into voluntrary
   liquidation this week (see the BBC).

   Calon were born out of Siriol, of course, and Robin Lyons and
   the gang recently brought us two lovely stop-motion series in the
   form of Igam Ogam and Hana's Helpline. These were productions
   with terrific design and lots of cute detail. They had great heart.
   And Zoo Factor has been a jolly puppet spoof too. But at the end
   of the day, it all boils down to cold hard cash, and that BBC
   news story tells us a much hoped-for investment in the
   company's future simply did not materialise, so the
   company has shut itself down...

   It's been so tough out there in recent years, what with the big
   devolution of kids tv, and all that financial strife to work around.
   Cosgrove Hall are no more, HOT Animation are cooling off,
   and so many more UK producers have slowed with them.
   There seems to be less and less production news to write
   about each month.

   But The Hound is a glass half-full kind of guy, so you could
   argue that the UK animation industry has always been somewhat
   precarious, with lots of independent little studios rising and falling
   and emerging from the ashes. I guess we're just on another turn
   of the old production millwheel...

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