The Large Family | |
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Genre | Children's television series |
Voices of | Jeff Rawle Paula Wilcox Tyger Drew-Honey Rosie Day Thomas Mole |
Narrated by | Maureen Lipman (only in the audiobooks) |
Composer | John Du Prez |
Country of origin | United Kingdom France |
Original languages | English French |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 52 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Michael Haggiag (Indie Kids/Coolabi) Eric Garnet (Go-N Productions) Lilian Eche (LuxAnimation, Series 1) Ariane Payen (LuxAnimation, Series 1) Tapaas Chakravarti (DQ Entertainment) |
Producers | Dan Maddicott (Indie Kids/Coolabi) Fiona Stuart (for Truepenny (Indie Kids/Coolabi)) |
Running time | 15 minutes per episode (approx.) |
Production companies | Indie Kids (earlier Season 1 episodes)[1] Coolabi Productions (later Season 1 episodes and Season 2) GO-N Productions LuxAnimation (Season 1) DQ Entertainment |
Original release | |
Network | CBeebies (UK) TF1 (France) Playhouse Disney (France) |
Release | October 15, 2007 March 10, 2010[2] | –
The Large Family (French: La Famille Trompette) is an animated children's television series based on the book series of the same name written by Jill Murphy and published by Walker Books in the United Kingdom.[3] The series was produced by Indie Kids (later acquired by Coolabi), GO-N Productions, LuxAnimation (Series 1) and DQ Entertainment, with the participation of TF1, Playhouse Disney France and CBeebies (Season 2), while GO-N Distribution (European French speaking territories) and BBC Worldwide (All other countries) distribute it. The series focuses on a family of anthropomorphic elephants, the Larges. It consists of two seasons with 26 episodes of up to 12 minutes each.
The series first aired in the United Kingdom on CBeebies on 15 October 2007.[4] The series premiered in France on TF1 on 29 October on the same year,[5] with its pay-TV premiere on Playhouse Disney in October 2008.[6]
By October 2008, BBC Worldwide had pre-sold the series in over 22 territories, including Australia, Portugal, Iran and Sweden.[7]