Jibber Jabber (TV series)

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Jibber Jabber
Genre
Created by
  • David Bowes
  • Sandy Flanagan
  • Bob Ennis
  • Jim Pescitelli
Directed byDavid Bowes
Voices of
Composer Michael Richard Plowman
Country of originCanada
Original languagesEnglish (Also dubbed in German, Italian, Turkish, Russian, Hebrew, Greek, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, French and Portuguese)
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes26
Production
Executive producers
  • Patti Poskitt
  • John Thomas
ProducerDavid Bowes
CinematographyBob Ennis
Running time11 minutes
Production companies
  • Northwest Imaging and FX
  • Jibber Jabber Toons Ltd.
Original release
Network YTV
ReleaseSeptember 3 (2007-09-03) 
December 7, 2007 (2007-12-07)

Jibber Jabber (also known as Jibber and Jabber) is a Canadian children's television series about the brothers Jibber and Jabber, who like to imagine things.

Contents

Characters

Imaginary adventures types

Episodes

  1. Mission to Mars
  2. Pride of Frankenstein
  3. Pirates of Privacy
  4. Mutiny of Privacy
  5. Cartoon Satellite
  6. Flu Day
  7. The Wrong Stuff
  8. Do You See What I See
  9. Jelly's Belly
  10. Pirates of Nowhere
  11. Kung Food
  12. The Greatest Wall
  13. Enter the Jelly
  14. Book of Endings
  15. The Chamber of Perils
  16. Brain vs Brawn
  17. Night of the Werewolf
  18. Lady Jess and Ms Hyde
  19. Night of the Vampire
  20. No Such Things As Ghosts
  21. Space for Sale
  22. One Bad Asteroid
  23. Pirates Plunder Blunder
  24. Attack of the Giant Worm-a-Noids
  25. April Fools Rules
  26. Double or Nothing

Cast

Production

Jibber Jabber is animated by Northwest Imaging and FX (NWFX), a visual effects and animation company based in Vancouver), in association with Jibber Jabber Toons Ltd. for YTV in Monday, September 3, 2007. The series was the inaugural project for NWFX's animation division, and the company hired 25 full-time animators and added 17 Autodesk Maya 3D workstations specifically for the series. Although the entire series is computer-animated, it is rendered to resemble traditional stop-motion animation. [1]

Broadcast details

The series was produced as 26 segments of about 11 minutes each, which are generally broadcast as 13 half-hour episodes. [1]

The series debuted on YTV in Monday, September 3, 2007. The series has also been sold to KI.KA (Germany), Jetix (Latin America), TRT (Turkey), E-Junior and Al Jazeera Children's Channel (Middle East), RTP (Portugal), Arutz HaYeladim (Israel), BBC Alba (Scotland) and ABC (Australia). [2]

Awards

In 2008, Jibber Jabber won four out of the five Leo Awards it was nominated for: Best Animation Program or Series; Best Overall Sound; Best Musical Score and Best Screenwriting. In 2009, the Production won a Pulcinella Award at Cartoons on the Bay , Italy for: Best Animated Character [3] [4]

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References

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  2. Moody, Annemarie: Jibber Jabber Out To Imagine More Territories, Animation World Network, October 9, 2008.
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