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Airdate: Gasp!

ABC3 screens an animated series based on the comic books by Australian author / illustrator Terry Denton.

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Next week ABC3 screens a 52 x 11 minute series  based on the successful GASP!, ZAPT!, SPLAT!, SQUISH!, CRASH!, CHOMP! comic books by Australian author / illustrator Terry Denton.

Denton is a multiple-award-winning children’s author-illustrator best known for the GASP! series, the Wombat and Fox series and the best-selling Just! books. He has written twenty children’s books and collaborated on eighty more with some of the most popular children’s authors in Australia.

Updated: The animated series is aimed at 6-12 year olds. It was previously commissioned by Nine and aired earlier this year.

If you’ve ever wondered what pets get up to when there are no humans around to spoil the fun then this is the place to find out. Based on the successful comic book series by Australian Terry Denton, Gasp! is a fin twitchingly funny animated series that follows the zany antics of Gasp, a larger than life little goldfish, left home alone when Mum, Dad and their two kids, Ginger and Fred, have gone out.

A thrill seeking goldfish, Gasp is way too smart, savvy and passionate for his own good. He has an imagination without limits. During his adventures he is joined by Dogbox, an excitable dog who’s like a toy with two speeds on and off; Catflap, a cat who spends way too much time reading anything she can get her paws on; Beetlenick, a cool and highly image conscious beetle who is the foreigner in the house; Mrs Winston, a motor bike ridin’, boot scootin’ piece of pond trash and her son Winston, a toxic ticking toddler time bomb guppy; and Diver, a mere bowl aerator/ornament to some but a therapist/conscience/confidante to Gasp.

From all pet singing/dancing revues to Arctic expeditions through the freezer, anything can happen in this house and it usually does!

Episode one: Help A Spider

Gasp discovers that the spider Fred and Ginger trapped for their dad to take care of is a meek little guy with low self esteem. Gasp feels compelled to help him appreciate his amazing web spinning ability. However he creates an egomaniacal monster in the process… one who is convinced that covering the entire house with webbing is high art.

Tuesday August 9 at 4.50pm ABC3

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  1. Gasp! is already been shown by Nine every Saturday morning.

    The ABC continues to waste money buying the rights to Australian TV series for children, which have already shown by the commercial TV networks.

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