Great grizzly news      (06.04.11)
  

   Are you sitting uncomfortably?

   Then we can begin to unspool 26 of the grizzliest tales you
   ever heard in the form of that BAA-winning series "Grizzly Tales
   For Gruesome Kids". Yes, this fiendishly-formatted fearfest is
   returning from the grave with a sickly Seventh Series clutched
   in its rotting hands...

   The new series is once more based upon the stories by Jamie
   Rix, with Simon and Sara Bor and the team at Honeycomb
   Animation bringing the beastliness to life. The title's been
   neatly guillotined, so it's now known simply as "Grizzly Tales", 
   and there's a noxious new sub-title: "Cautionery Tales
   for Lovers of Squeam".

   

   There's also a grim new introduction to get us in the mood.
   We've moved from that sickly cinema "The Squeam Screen",
   to a fresh haunt in "The Hot-Hell Darkness", a hotel in the
   bowels of the earth that has a room (cell, even) for every
   bad child in the world. This big bad boarding house is run
   by Uncle Grizzly's half-brother The Night-Night Porter.

   As for the cautionery stories, well, with titles like "Sick to
  Death", "Hear no Weevil See no Weevil" and "
  The Apostrophic Expositor", it's safe to say they'll
   fright and delight young viewers just like the originals.

   Now, if you're feeling really brave, there's a fearfully informative
   Grizzly Tales blog for you, which is stuffed full of background info
   on the production and the books, and the folks behind them,
   including photographs of the creative team when they were
   gruesome kids themselves - Yoiks!

   Series Seven of "Grizzly Tales" starts airing on Nickelodeon UK
   and Nicktoons UK in May. Tune in, if you dare!
   
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   +++++++++++++ UPDATE 12/04/11 +++++++++++++

    Nicktoons will start airing the series on May 2nd!

   +++++++++++++ UPDATE 12/04/11 +++++++++++++

 
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