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It was recently reported that white actors would no longer voice characters of colour in the Simpsons, I was reminded about casting decisions we had to make over thirty years ago and the ten-year-old school girl who pointed us in the right direction.

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New CITV schedule

Starting from 7th September 2015, the new CITV schedule presents four episodes of Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids every weekday at 9.30 followed by two episodes of Wolves Witches & Giants at 10.20.

Wolves Witches & Giants @ 20: Sara's Tale

Wolves Witches & Giants is twenty this month. Producer and director Sara Bor recalls the making of the series.

Wolves Witches & Giants @ 20: Spike Milligan's Ad-Libs

Wolves Witches and Giants is twenty. Simon Bor looks back at how Spike Milligan's ad-libs inspired visual jokes in the CITV series.

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.

Wolves Witches & Giants @ 20: Ed Welch

September sees the twentieth anniversary of Wolves Witches & Giants. Still airing on the CITV channel, the show featured the voice of the legendary Spike Milligan.

Writer and musician Ed Welch writes about his role in the series.

Grizzly Tales is No1

Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids has been a regular fixture in the audience figures for CITV since its recent return to the channel.  CITV viewing figures for the week ending August 13th give the show 8 out of its top 10 placings,  giving Uncle Grizzly the top seven places plus number 9.

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.

Uncle Grizzly returns

ITV Global Entertainment has re-licensed Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids to Citv, marking Uncle Grizzly's return to Freeview television since 2010.

Win Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids - Nuclear Wart

There's a competition to win a copy of the new Grizzly Tales DVD along with four other Abbey Home Entertainment releases, including Grizzly's former Citv stable mate, Horrid Henry.

The DVD features 11 episodes from the Nickelodeon version of the series.


Go to http://www.uniqueyoungmum.com/ for further competition details.

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Gruesome Kids for September

Broadcast's Best Children's Entertainment winner for 2012 finally get a UK DVD release on the 30th September.

Grizzly Tales already shares Orion Books as publishers with its former Citv stable-mate, Horrid Henry: now they are reunited once again by joining his DVD label, Abbey Home Entertainment.

Since leaving ITV for Nickleodeon's NickToons, Grizzly Tales has only been available to pay TV subscribers. Abbey will start their programme of releases with Series 7 part 1.

You can pre-order at Amazon for only £7.40. Also available at Play.

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.

Back on TV

Grizzly on CITV

You are welcome to Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, cautionary tales for lovers of squeam, every day on the CITV channel at 5.30. Miss it if you dare!