Nicktoons: Grizzly Tales for Insomniacs

Can't sleep?

NickToons continues to broadcast two episodes of Grizzly Tales, on their UK and Ireland channel, every night at 3am.

Series 7 & 8 of show were made for Nickelodeon and are still exclusive to the channel. Meanwhile, the first six series continue to be aired on CITV during daylight hours.

Fifteen Years of Gruesome Kids

Happy birthday to Uncle Grizzly.

This month is the fifteenth anniversary of Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids on TV.

ITV began transmitting the first series in January 2000. In all, eight series were made with the last new episode going out on NickToons in 2012. Reruns of the first six series began on CITV last September.

There are more anniversaries to come this year. It will be five years since the programme was first seen on Nickelodeon and twenty five years since Jamie Rix's first Grizzly Tales book was published.

Grizzly Tales on CITV this Saturday

After a gap of four years, Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids returns to CITV, bringing Uncle Grizzly back to Freeview.

Starting at 3pm on Saturday 6th September, CITV will be showing the first ever episodes of Grizzly, first shown on ITV in 2000.

The New Nanny, The Spaghetti Man, Grandmother's Footsteps and Death by Chocolate were adapted from stories taken from Jamie Rix's first three Grizzly Tales books.

NickToons @ Ten

Tonight at 10pm, NickToons (for UK and Eire) is showing the first two episodes of Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids. The New Nanny and The Spaghetti Man were first shown on ITV way back in 2000.

What's on NickToons

New episodes of Grizzly Tales on NickToons for UK and Eire at 5.30pm  Classic episodes continue at 10pm.

A Grizzly Halloween to you.

New Grizzly Tales for NickToons.
Find out when Grizzly Tales is on next. http://www.nick.co.uk/whatson/Default.aspx?channel=NKTT

More Grizzly Tales this Autumn

NickToons is to air Grizzly Tales series 8 part 2, this autumn.

The new episodes, which get their UK premier are,

Frank Einstein’s Monster 

Nails In Her Coffin 

The Undertaker 

Little Flower Girl

The Wrap Man 

Old Macdonald had a Farm 

Nuclear Wart 

The series is a Grizzly TV production for Nickelodeon and ITV Global Entertainment

What's on TV Monday 9th April.

Nigel Planer narrates four more Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids at10pm - 11pm on Nicktoons for UK and Ireland

Spike Milligan tells more tales of Wolves Witches and Giants at 3.30. on CITV.

Wolves Witches and Giants. Now showing on ITV Player

More Spike Milligan from ITV

Mark Williams voices Funky Town at Demand5 and its sister programme Funky Valley HERE.

Grizzly Tales praised by panel

“Great storytelling made with love” 

According to the Broadcast website Grizzly Tales was praised by the judging panel at last week's Broadcast Awards.

The judges described the show as “exceptional” and having “a brave, raw and original approach”.


“It is unusual for children’s TV to produce such daring, funny and outrageous storytelling. And that deserves to be celebrated.”

“the author(Jamie Rix)’s spirit shines right through it”.

Subscribers to the magazine can read the full Grizzly Tales article HERE. Non subscribers can find the article reproduced on the NickAlive Blog