Roy - CBBC Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

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Roy in a school corridor. Copyright: JAM Media

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

2009 - 2015

Channel

CBBC

Episodes

52 (4 series)

Creator

Alan Shannon

Stars

Simon Delaney, Cathy Belton, Martha Byrne, David Green, Rebecca Barry, Fionn O'Shea, Lewis Harris, Chloe McCormack and more

Writers

Mark Hodkinson and Declan De Barra

Directors

Alan Shannon, Ian Bevitt, Alan Macmillan, Simon Gibney and Robert Quinn

Producers

Mark Cumberton, Sue Nott and John Rice

Company

Roy features a living cartoon trapped in the real world.

This comedy, filmed as a fly-on-the-wall documentary series, combines hand-drawn animation with real-world drama as it follows how one boy struggles to fit in.

Roy thinks he's just like any normal 11 year old. Born into a real world, he is an every-day kid living in an every-day house in an every-day street in a suburb of Dublin and inside he feels just like an ordinary kid. He shares the same hopes, aspirations, friendships and fallings out. The trouble is he's animated!

How do you blend in with the crowd when you can squash and stretch, involuntarily turn blue when you're sad, green when you're jealous, and produce a flock of twittering birds when you get a bump on the head?

Additional details

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Production

Location

Camera set-up

Single camera

Picture

Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Wednesday 5th August 2009 at 4:30pm on CBBC

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