Nick U.K. to Air Grizzly Tales

DEVON: The animated series Grizzly Tales, which had a six-season run from 2000 to 2006 on ITV1, is being reinvented for Nickelodeon U.K., with 26 new 11-minute episodes based on the recent series of books written by Jamie Rix and published by Orion.

The new series is to be broadcast in 2011, preceded by reruns of the 79 original episodes in 2010. Produced by Grizzly TV, which is jointly owned by Honeycomb Animation Enterprises and Elephant Productions, Grizzly Tales is distributed by ITV Global Entertainment. The writer, co-director and co producer is Jamie Rix (The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury, Not Going Out), alongside co-directors/co-producers Sara and Simon Bor (Wolves, Witches & Giants, Binka).