Airdate: Beep and Mort

A very cute kids’ series Beep and Mort is coming to ABC Kids in October.

Based on Windmill Theatre Company’s award-winning theatre show, this puppet-based television series follows the adventures of Beep, a robot from the stars and Mort, a cuddly creature from Mollyvale. Although they come from worlds apart, they’re the best of friends.

Set in the leafy town of Mollyvale, with Beep’s spaceship perched nearby, the show balances a joyful reverence for the natural world with an excitement for new technology.

Directed by Rosemary Myers (Girl Asleep, Bluey’s Big Play), produced by Kaye Weeks and featuring production design by Jonathon Oxlade (Girl Asleep, Bluey’s Big Play) and original music by Harry Covill (Girl Asleep), the series is a portrait of empathy, embracing difference, and the enduring nature of friendship.

“Beep and Mort has seen us work with incredible artists from the film and television industries,” says director Rosemary Myers, “in a screen landscape dominated by animation, we wanted to create a gentle, character-driven work filled with quirky, lovable characters.

Beep and Mort is Windmill Pictures’ first production for television, and sees the company combine live-action puppetry, with post-animation.

“Everything you see on screen has been built or handcrafted in three-dimensions and most of the action is in-camera with our puppeteers hidden in amongst the sets,” says Producer, Kaye Weeks. “We feel like this achieves a uniquely textured authentic world, and we hope our young audiences will feel like they can almost walk around in.”

Beep and Mort is written by an award-winning team featuring Charlotte Rose Hamlyn (The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill), Simon Butters (H20: Just Add Water), Amy Stewart (The Heights) Hunter Page-Lochard (Cleverman, Play School), Wendy Hanna (Love Child, Giggle and Hoot) and Lorin Clarke (Larry the Wonderpup).

New episodes will air weekdays with an additional five episodes available on ABC iview from launch.

Production credit: A Windmill Pictures Production. Major production funding from Screen Australia. Developed and produced in association with the ABC. Financed and developed in association with the South Australian Film Corporation. Distributed by ABC Commercial.

Monday, October 10 at 8.10am on ABC Kids.