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Creating Teletubbies
Find out how, in 1994, spacemen and technology helped inspire Anne Wood to create one of the most popular kids TV shows of all time.
It’s 1994 and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ is looking for a brand-new children’s TV series.
TV producer Anne Wood decides she’s going to make a show aimed at an audience that’s never had programmes made for it before – two and three-year-olds.
She tells Melanie Stewart-Smith the fascinating story of how spacemen and technology inspired the creation of one of the most popular kids TV shows of all time, Teletubbies.
(Photo: Teletubbies. Credit: Ragdoll Productions for the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ/Wildbrain)
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