{"id":31379,"date":"2026-02-20T11:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/knee-high-spies-to-air-on-the-bbc\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:13:12","slug":"knee-high-spies-to-air-on-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/knee-high-spies-to-air-on-the-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Knee High Spies to Air on the BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has acquired the 20-episode series <em>Knee High Spies<\/em> from the Australian Children\u2019s Television Foundation (ACTF) to air on CBeebies and BBC iPlayer later this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis wonderfully imaginative series is full of adventure, humor and heart, everything we know our youngest viewers love,\u201d said Kate Morton, senior head of commissioning for CBeebies at BBC Children\u2019s and Education. \u201cWe can\u2019t wait for the U.K. to meet Jeremy Buttons and the team and to welcome this charming world into the CBeebies family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Created by Tim Bain (<em>Kangaroo Beach<\/em>), produced by the award-winning Werner Film Productions (<em>Dance Academy<\/em>) and directed by current Emmy nominee Jack Jameson (<em>Mallory Towers<\/em>), 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\u2019s pet guinea pig.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted to have the BBC on board for <em>Knee High Spies<\/em>,\u201d said Bernadette O\u2019Mahony, head of content at the ACTF. \u201cIt 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\u2019s young viewers will do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Executive producer Joanna Werner added, \u201c<em>Knee High Spies<\/em> is incredibly distinctive, with its mix of live-action puppetry, its cinematic spy-genre energy and its play from a child\u2019s-eye point of view. It celebrates curiosity, teamwork and the idea that being small doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t be mighty\u2014which is exactly the kind of empowering message we want kids to carry away with them. 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