Showing posts with label Hit Entertainment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hit Entertainment. Show all posts

Sunday, 28 September 2014

Is Mike a Knightly Name?

I watched Mike the Knight yesterday with my grandson, he loves watching it and he’s not even two yet.

Mike the Knight is an animated children’s programme that is shown on CBeebies.
It was created by Alexander Bar and written by Marc Seal.
                                                
The animation is great and the theme tune catchy; the stories are opened by a minstrel who starts the story off with a song.

It’s a wonderful children’s television series about a trainee knight called Mike and his horse Galahad who likes to help his friends. The story lines are based on medieval times with dragons and castles.

Mike is always eager to help but instead messes things up; he always makes things right by the end.

My favourite character has to be Mike’s sister Evie she is really sweet and has a pet frog called Mr Cuddles who is also her best friend.

Evie is a trainee wizard and practices spells, unfortunately she’s not very good at it and things always go wrong!

It’s worth watching, the children will love it. 

In my opinion I think it’s a lovely children’s history programme with lots of humorous medieval elements.

My final thought: did Corgi’s exist in medieval times or did the dragons eat them? 

Also is Mike really a knightly name?

What do you think?  


Sunday, 8 June 2014

Is Pingu more suited to Adults than Children?

“Pingu,” has been around since I was a kid. I was surprised to see it on CBeebies.

The stop motion clay mated television series was created by Otmar Gutmann and produced by The Pygos Group and Trickfilmstudio for Swiss television.

The show was made by HiT Entertainment and HoT Animation and can be seen on CBeebies.                     
The series is about a family of penguins who speak in a different language without sub titles and live at the South Pole in igloos.

Although sub titles are not required, you can make out what the story is about by the characters actions.

My favourite character is Pingu, a little boy penguin, he is very mischievous and has tantrums, just like any child when they can’t get their own way.

As a child I never really got into it, as an adult I find it hilarious, the different accents and the characters expressions always put a smile on my face.

One of my favourite clips is when Pingu’s little sister Pinga is in hospital.

The props for example; the pot under the bed; the pull around screen, it reminds me of the items used in our hospitals years ago.

My final thought: it’s definitely one for the adults, it's also got a cult following.

If your going to watch it on YouTube, vet it first as I came across one episode when Pingu gets a slap for not doing his chores.

Watch it and tell me what you think?