{"id":30257,"date":"2025-08-13T10:14:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/bbc-childrens-commissions-new-numberblocks-season\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T10:55:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:55:03","slug":"bbc-childrens-commissions-new-numberblocks-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/bbc-childrens-commissions-new-numberblocks-season\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Children\u2019s Commissions More Numberblocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Children\u2019s has commissioned a 15-episode eighth season of <em>Numberblocks<\/em>, which will feature an expanded curriculum with more advanced mathematical concepts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith every new series of <em>Numberblocks<\/em>, our goal is to find the story and comedy in a new area of maths,\u201d said Adam Shaw, co-founder of Blue Zoo Animation Studio. \u201cWe want to make abstract concepts tangible, visible and fun for our young audience. This season, we\u2019re tackling big ideas like measurement and data, but we\u2019re doing it through rescue missions, detective mysteries and team challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new episodes will delve into more complex, curriculum-led topics, including perimeter, area, capacity and data handling. They will also introduce key math skills such as \u201cbridging the ten,\u201d adding and subtracting two-digit numbers and understanding parts of 50 and 100. This builds on the core educational framework from series creator Joe Elliot and the Alphablocks team.<\/p>\n<p>Season eight will also feature a classic film noir-style episode, in which Detective One returns to help a frantic Number Three solve the case of her missing button. By tracking her movements and reading various clocks and watches along the way, the episode embeds the concept of measuring and telling time within a genre-led narrative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe film noir episode is a perfect example of how we can push our creative boundaries to serve the educational core of the show,\u201d Shaw noted. \u201cIt\u2019s about showing children that maths isn\u2019t just in the classroom; it\u2019s everywhere, and it\u2019s an exciting tool for solving problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur creative process always starts with the maths,\u201d added Ruth Cassidy, editorial director and creative lead of Alphablocks. \u201cWe ask ourselves, \u2018What is the story within this calculation?\u2019 or \u2018What\u2019s the adventure in learning about capacity?\u2019 This [season] has been about translating those key early years concepts into tangible, character-driven narratives that a child can delight in. Seeing Detective One use the principles of time-telling to crack a case is a perfect example of how we fuse rigorous educational thinking with unforgettable storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Numberblocks<\/em> season eight will premiere on CBeebies and BBC iPlayer this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Children\u2019s has commissioned a 15-episode eighth season of Numberblocks, which will feature an expanded curriculum with more advanced mathematical concepts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":30259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[11323,2940,1351,3817,2941,494,2943,11324],"class_list":["post-30257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-adam-shaw","tag-alphablocks","tag-bbc-childrens","tag-bbc-iplayer","tag-blue-zoo-animation-studio","tag-cbeebies","tag-numberblocks","tag-ruth-cassidy","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BBC Children\u2019s Commissions More Numberblocks - TVKIDS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/bbc-childrens-commissions-new-numberblocks-season\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BBC Children\u2019s Commissions More Numberblocks - TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BBC Children\u2019s has commissioned a 15-episode eighth season of Numberblocks, which will feature an expanded curriculum with more advanced mathematical concepts.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/bbc-childrens-commissions-new-numberblocks-season\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-13T14:14:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-13T14:55:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/1-BBCChildrens-Numberblocks-0825.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"394\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/bbc-childrens-commissions-new-numberblocks-season\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/bbc-childrens-commissions-new-numberblocks-season\/\",\"name\":\"BBC Children\u2019s Commissions More Numberblocks - TVKIDS\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-13T14:14:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-13T14:55:03+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/bbc-childrens-commissions-new-numberblocks-season\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/bbc-childrens-commissions-new-numberblocks-season\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/bbc-childrens-commissions-new-numberblocks-season\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BBC Children\u2019s Commissions More Numberblocks\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\",\"name\":\"TVKIDS\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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