CBS orders stop-motion "Creature Comforts"

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Aardman's "Creature" features on CBS schedule
By Nellie Andreeva

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - CBS has ordered its first animated
series in 13 years, "Creature Comforts," an American version of the
hit British stop-motion animated TV series of the same name.

Stan Brown...

Why? Why? Why?

Why don't they just broadcast the one that they already know is good?

Frater Mus...

Note to anyone with access to BBC America: tape/tivo/watch Creature
Comforts. It's delighful!

mattack...

It's also on DVD already. (I haven't seen it yet, it's in my netflix
queue though.)

Barry Margolin...

I haven't seen the show, but I'm guessing it's because American
audiences wouldn't recognize many of the British guests.

patty1...

Neither would British audiences. As far as I know, they're just
ordinary people talking about whatever subjects they've been asked
to ramble on about.

You can find out for yourself tonight at 11:00 p.m. ET.

Why don't they just air British Idol here, instead of American Idol?

The project hails from Aardman Animations, the creative force behind
the Oscar-nominated feature "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the
Were-Rabbit" and box office hit "Chicken Run."

In "Comforts," excerpts from real-person interviews are placed in the
mouths of a variety of animated animals who end up "discussing"
different subjects on the show. CBS has ordered seven half-hour
episodes for midseason 2006-07.

"Creature Comforts" has enjoyed great commercial and critical success
in the U.K. since it launched on ITV1 in 2003 as a series of 10-minute
segments. The show is based on Nick Park's 1989 Oscar-winning
short film of the same name.

Aardman will produce the half-hour stop-motion animated series in Los
Angeles and at its Bristol, England, studios.

"We're thrilled to be exploring the American cultural viewpoint, a
concept that we've mined to popular comedic effect in the U.K.," said
Miles Bullough, Aardman's head of broadcast and development.

CBS had little success with its two previous animation series
attempts. "Fish Police" and "Family Dog" both ran for several weeks
before being canceled in midseason 1992 and summer 1993, respectively.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter