Angelina Ballerina | |
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Based on | Angelina Ballerina book series written by Katharine Holabird illustrated by Helen Craig |
Developed by | Barbara Slade |
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Composer | Colin Towns |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 20 (39 segments) +3 specials |
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Producer | Ginger Gibbons |
Running time | 15 minutes 55 minutes (specials) 4-5 minutes (Little Stars) |
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Network | ITV (CITV) |
Release | 4 May 2001 5 September 2006 | –
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Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps | |
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Angelina Ballerina is a British animated preschool children's television series based on the Angelina Ballerina series of children's books by author Katharine Holabird and illustrator Helen Craig. The series is about a young mouse named Angelina Mouseling who loves dancing ballet, her family, and her classmates. Finty Williams performed the voice of Angelina and her mother Judi Dench performed the voice of Miss Lilly.[1]
The show had 39 15-minute-long episodes, as well as three longer specials, which first aired from 2001 to 2006.[2] The series was produced by HIT Entertainment and Grand Slamm Children's Films. It aired on the CITV block of ITV in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the show was presented by Connecticut Public Television and distributed nationally by PBS Kids from 2002 to 2003; reruns continued on select stations through 2009, as well as on PBS Kids Sprout.
SD Entertainment and HIT Entertainment produced a CGI revival Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps which aired on Milkshake! from 2009 to 2010.