Danger Mouse is to return to screens 30 years after it launched as CBBC ordered a remake of the classic kids cartoon from FremantleMedia.
The greenlight comes over a year after Broadcast revealed the RTL-owned producer and distributor was planning a reboot of the animation following its success as part of CITV’s nostalgia weekend in January 2013. The episode selected entertained an audience of 523,000 (5.7%), CITV’s highest-ever ratings performance.
Danger Mouse, which follows the adventures of the world’s greatest secret agent and his nervous sidekick Penfold, is the latest iconic kids series to resurface after revivals of The Wombles, Teletubbies, Thunderbirds and a Turner reboot of The Powerpuff Girls.
- Title Danger Mouse
- Channel CBBC
- Production company FremantleMedia UK
- Executive producer Sarah Muller, Bob Higgins
- Executive commissioner Cheryl Taylor
CBBC has commissioned a 52 x 11-minute run as part of the BBC’s five-year partnership with FremantleMedia Kids and Family Entertainment.
Danger Mouse will launch in 2015, over 30 years after the original first aired.
The new version will be produced in association with Irish indie Boulder Media, directed by The Amazing World of Gumball’s Robert Cullen and written by Horrible Histories’ Ben Ward.
It will be exec produced by CBBC’s Sarah Muller and FremantleMedia’s Bob Higgins with Danger Mouse co-creator Brian Cosgrove acting as a consultant. It was commissioned by CBBC controller Cheryl Taylor.
FremantleMedia Kids & Family president Sander Schwartz kicked off the rebooted version of the show before his exit last October.
Danger Mouse was originally created in 1981 by Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall and produced by Cosgrove Hall for Thames Television.
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