Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids (2000)

Genre

comedy, comedy horror, children's television series, horror fiction

Country

United Kingdom

Length

8 seasons, 105 episodes

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This animated series adapts short stories about badly behaved children who get imaginative and often gruesome comeuppances. Each episode has a darkly comic twist and a moral lesson about the consequences of misbehavior.

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What happens

Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids is a British animated comedy television series based on the children's book series of the same name by Jamie Rix. After the first three books were published from 1990 to 1996, Carlton Television adapted the short stories into ten-minute cartoons for ITV, produced by themselves, Honeycomb Animation, and Rix's production company, Elephant Productions. It aired on CITV between January 2000 and October 2006 with six series and 78 episodes, as well as a New Year's Eve special that was over 20 minutes longer than other episodes. The series returned in a new format for Nicktoons with 26 episodes split into two series under the name Grizzly Tales (also known as Grizzly Tales: Cautionary Tales for Lovers of Squeam!), which aired between May 2011 and November 2012. Both versions of the series have been nominated for BAFTAs and the CITV series has received numerous international awards from animated film festivals. Both have been popular on their respective channels; the CITV series has often been re-aired on Nickelodeon with the Nicktoons series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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