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Rex
while Cartoon Network only has the Amazing World of Gumball to its name.


Though who would even know Gumball is a UK production from watching it, if you didn't already know it was one?

The credits are a total giveaway - produced by CN Development Studio Europe, who are based in London.
JA
james-2001
Yeah, but do many people read or take notice of the credits? Especially kids!

Fat Dog Mendoza and The Cramp Twins are two other UK based Cartoon Network shows that you also wouldn't have known were British just by watching.
RE
Rex
Yeah, but do many people read or take notice of the credits? Especially kids!

Fat Dog Mendoza and The Cramp Twins are two other UK based Cartoon Network shows that you also wouldn't have known were British just by watching.

Finally getting round to your point - most wouldn't know if it was made in the UK or not; some of the shows mentioned do have an American feeling to them - even when produced in the UK! I noticed this slightly when watching The Cramp Twins years ago.

Maybe I'm being a bit of a pedantic clog. Rolling Eyes
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A former member
Edit: follow on from above:
as said Gumball is another series that was created by Cartoon Network uk and made on this side of the water before it was moved to the USA wasn't it from series 2?
CY
cyberdude
CN isn't the only one. I seem to recall Disney Channel made a series here too?
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A former member
CN isn't the only one. I seem to recall Disney Channel made a series here too?

Edit Turns out that is in fact The Evermoor Chronicles.

The series I was think off which was filmed in Liverpool, and was about a boarding school: House of Anubis is in think a Nick production: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Anubis

This just proves all the main channels does stuff.
Last edited by A former member on 23 April 2017 1:24pm - 3 times in total
NW
nwtv2003
I'm fairly certain The Evermoor Chronicles that is made by Lime Pictures for Disney, is recorded in a warehouse in Warrington, not too far from where I live in fact, it only became news when the BBC reported about it a couple of years ago.
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
Think we said before that House of Anubis was filmed in the UK but for the American Nickelodeon, not the UK one.

Nick UK doesn't make much, Summer in Transylvania appears to have been its last original creation, but they did quite a bit of stuff in the late 1990s, most notably Renford Rejects which continues to air today, albeit at like 3am.

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