Simon Jowett
making stuff up since the late 20th Century

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Coming Soon… Pet Squad

Pet Squad: 11-minute episodes of un-housebroken animated superheroics. Coming soon on CBBC, courtesy of Ciamh McDonnell, Auntie Beeb and the good people at Darrall Macqueen.

“Crazy Keith: Extreme Koala”

My episode of the completely mental children’s sitcom Bear Behaving Badly, produced by the completely wonderful people at Darrall Macqueen, was broadcast over the Christmas period and is patiently waiting its turn to become available on CBBC’s version of iPlayer.

IT … LIVES!!!

I… hope!

This is a test post from MacJournal to my newly-updated WordPress 2.9-powered site.

Hello 2010. May you be much shinier than 2009.

coming soon(ish)…

From the makers of Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep…

Now showing … Pinky & Perky

Two of the episodes written by moi – ‘Pretty In Pork’ and ‘You’ll Believe A Pig Can Fly’ – are getting their first broadcast on CBBC at 5.45pm on November 26th and 27th, respectively, thereafter to live on in perpetual re-run somewhere in the multi-channel, 21st Century entertainment soup.

now showing … Famous Five On The Case

at 3.35 pm on The Disney Channel.

now showing … Combo Ninos

Weekdays at 11am on Jetix.

now showing … Chop Socky Chooks

5.30pm every day on Cartoon Network.

coming soon…

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• Who?

  Simon Jowett has written for some of the biggest names in children's television, from Bob the Builder to Wallace and Gromit, and some of the biggest names in action-adventure, including James Bond, Spider-Man and Dr Who.

  This year will see the broadcast of his episodes of Chop Socky Chooks (from the creators of Wallace and Gromit), Combo Ninos, Pinky & Perky, Famous Five: On the Case and a couple of other children's classics that their companies' lawyers won't let him mention yet.

  He has consulted on the development of global children's IPs and has worked on feature length adaptations of children's fiction. He has also written the scripts for a number of computer games, including the best-selling Fire Warrior and the ground-breaking game/internet serial Halcyon Sun. He wrote Cable and Chase and One of Our Demons is Missing for children and continues to write weird fiction and fantasy for children and grown-ups who should know better.

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