May 3rd, The Day Foster's will End

[jekylljuice]

Originally Posted by WiltGirl

you said it! wallace and gromit rocks. but as u said, their animation. i cant think of a british cartoon thats not been totally weird/bad.

You clearly missed out on Pinny's House, King Rollo, The Dreamstone, The Animals of Farthing Wood (bar series 3), the old-school Cosgrove Hall productions and the like...a lot of stuff which I grew up on in the late 80s/early 90s, and which is now long gone and isn't coming back (luckily we'd acquired a VHS recorder before they completely drifted from the air). I can't speak much for the state of current UK kids' television, since I now don't watch a huge deal of television, period. Still, Charlie and Lola seems nice enough. On the whole, I think that stop motion is the animation medium which we've done best with, giving rise to such creations as W&G, Morph and Creature Comforts, and it's far from confined to what Aardman Studios have done (plus you can consider the range of one-off 2d animated instalments, like the various Raymond Briggs adaptations, many of which are now classics).

Oh how far off-topic we must have come...