BBC Worldwide Responds to Night Garden Reports

LONDON: BBC Worldwide issued a statement today noting that the "rumored demise" of Ragdoll’s In the Night Garden "has been premature to say the least."

The statement, from Neil Ross Russell, managing director of children’s global brands and licensed consumer products at BBC Worldwide, came in response to numerous press reports this morning out of the U.K. that the CBeebies series had been canceled. Creator Andrew Davenport told the Guardian that there will be no new seasons of the popular show.

Ross Russell noted: "BBC Worldwide and Ragdoll, with the full support of Kay Benbow, controller of CBeebies, are actually in the process of developing exclusive new content which will see the characters continue in a variety of different formats.”