NickALive!: Nick Jr. UK To Premiere "Lily's Driftwood Bay" On Monday 5th May 2014

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Nick Jr. UK To Premiere "Lily's Driftwood Bay" On Monday 5th May 2014

UPDATE (30/4/2014) - Updated air times for "Lily's Driftwood Bay". Plus, don't forget to visit Nick Jr. UK's official "Lily's Driftwood Bay" website, which is packed full of show information, character bios, exclusive online streaming video clips, games and activities!

The online British and Irish TV guide website Digiguide is reporting the very exciting Nick Jr. UK news that Nickelodeon UK's preschool channel, Nick Jr. UK and Ireland, will start to show the brand-new mixed media animated preschool series "Lily's Driftwood Bay" weekdays at 5:45pm, 5:50pm and 6:05pm (repeated from 6:45pm on Nick Junior UK's plus-one (+1) timeshift channel, Nick Jr.+1)!

"Lily's Driftwood Bay" (52 x 7 minute episodes) is a all-new mixed media animated preschool series commissioned by Nick Jr. UK which is about a little girl who creates an imaginary world from treasures she finds washed up on the beach. The series features a top-notch voice cast which includes Stephen Fry ("QI" ("Quite Interesting"), "The Hobbit", "Blackadder", "Gadget Man"), Peter Mullan ("Harry Potter", "Top of the Lake"), Tameka Empson ("EastEnders", "3 Non-Blondes"), Jane Horrocks ("Sunshine on Leith", "Absolutely Fabulous"), Ardal O'Hanlon ("Father Ted", "London Irish", "My Hero"), Annette Crosbie ("One Foot in the Grave", "Hope Springs") and Richard Dormer ("Game of Thrones", "Good Vibrations", "Fortitude")!

"Lily's Driftwood Bay" follows Lily (Orlagh O'Keefe from Belfast), a five year old who lives in a beach hut on the shore with her Dad (Dormer). Everyday, the sea washes up a curious new treasure, which sparks Lily's imagination about what might be happening 'across the way on Driftwood Bay'. And so, with her best friend Gull - the clever seagull (Paul Currie), an adventure begins as they head off to Driftwood Bay – and its cast of colourful inhabitants.

There's Salty Dog (Mullan), the jolly seafaring sailor with a story for every occasion; Nonna Dog (Crosbie), a sage granny who runs Cockle Café and who's always ready with some advice and a biscuit; Hatsie Hen (Empson), a train-driving hen with a need for speed and a love of excitement; Bull (O'Hanlon), a boisterous bull who always charges head first into things (sometimes literally); Wee Rabbit (Horrocks), a gentle young bunny with a love of art, fairy tales and rainbows; and Lord Stag (Fry) an aristocratic deer with a taste for the finer things in life.

A unique series about making fun and adventure from things that you find, "Driftwood Bay" was created by Sixteen South, based on an original idea from artist Joanne Carmichael, and featuring characters and environments completely created from objects found washed up on the beach.

"Driftwood Bay" received funding from the Northern Ireland Screen Fund supported by Invest NI and part funded by the European Regional Development Fund.

Below is a online streaming video clip featuring Nick Jr. UK's first brand-new "Lily's Driftwood Bay" promo/trailer, from the official "Lily's Driftwood Bay" Facebook profile page, facebook.com/lilysdriftwoodbay:

Huge thanks to NickUKHub!

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