Knee High Spies to Air on the BBC

The BBC has acquired the 20-episode series Knee High Spies from the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) to air on CBeebies and BBC iPlayer later this year.

“This wonderfully imaginative series is full of adventure, humor and heart, everything we know our youngest viewers love,” said Kate Morton, senior head of commissioning for CBeebies at BBC Children’s and Education. “We can’t wait for the U.K. to meet Jeremy Buttons and the team and to welcome this charming world into the CBeebies family.”

Created by Tim Bain (Kangaroo Beach), produced by the award-winning Werner Film Productions (Dance Academy) and directed by current Emmy nominee Jack Jameson (Mallory Towers), the series chronicles the secret lives of teddy bear Jeremy Buttons and his team of toy spies. They embark on missions to protect their humans from the schemes of the family’s pet guinea pig.

“We are delighted to have the BBC on board for Knee High Spies,” said Bernadette O’Mahony, head of content at the ACTF. “It was a hugely ambitious series which has delivered on all fronts. We are excited by how quickly the audience has taken our tiny spies into their hearts and homes, and I know the BBC’s young viewers will do the same.”

Executive producer Joanna Werner added, “Knee High Spies is incredibly distinctive, with its mix of live-action puppetry, its cinematic spy-genre energy and its play from a child’s-eye point of view. It celebrates curiosity, teamwork and the idea that being small doesn’t mean you can’t be mighty—which is exactly the kind of empowering message we want kids to carry away with them. I can’t wait for families in the U.K. to meet these characters and share in the fun.”