Children’s 3D Craft Adventure TV series ‘Pop Paper City’ wins Royal Television Society Award
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Pop Paper City team members picked up an RTS (Royal Television Society) Award on Friday 21st April 2023. Pop Paper City is a vibrant new 3D craft series with adventure, currently airing on Channel 5’s Milkshake. The series is soon to be shown on screens across the globe, with distribution deals to over 150 international territories including: BBC Studios (Africa, Asia, and Poland), MBC (Middle East and North Africa), Warner Bros. Discovery (Latin America and the Caribbean Basin), and many more.
The first season is 52 x 11-minute episodes and focuses on a group of unique paper characters who live in Pop Paper City, the capital of a captivating paper world. The series is being distributed internationally by Aardman Animations, the animation studio behind renowned UK animations like Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep.
Produced by LoveLove Films, an award-winning independent animation studio based in Bournemouth, Pop Paper City encourages ‘doing as well as viewing’. The show is all about ‘creating adventures together’, inspiring child viewers to get involved with crafting and engage with their own Pop Paper City adventures. In each episode, the characters encounter a challenge on their adventure and need to make a craft. The character Helping Hand, voiced by TV star Nick Mohammed (Ted Lasso, Intelligence, Christopher Robin), helps the characters get crafty!
Pop Paper City was supported by the BFI’s Young Audiences Contend Fund. The fund existed to support innovative new children’s content across the UK and helped bring Pop Paper City through its development and production to now being seen on TV screens across the country.
Pop Paper City won the RTS Award for best short form production. The episode submitted to the judges was ‘Mae-Mae’s Precious Pearl’, the tenth episode of the first season which was written by experienced preschool writer Tim Bain, who’s writing credits include PJ Masks, Bluey, Bob the Builder, Fireman Sam, Counterfeit Cat, and many more.
The episode follows paper friend Mae-Mae as she finds a very precious pearl on the beach. However, when the pearl is taken back underwater by a giant clam, Mae-Mae and her friends go on a submarine adventure to try and get it back.
The Awards Ceremony was held at Winchester Guildhall on Friday 21st April 2023, and featured a wide range of quality television work from across the south of England.
“We are delighted that Pop Paper City has received the RTS awards for Best Short Form Production”, said Louise Bucknole, General Manager and Vice President, Kids & Family UK & Ireland at Paramount. “Pop Paper City is a big hitter on Channel 5’s Milkshake! and loved by families across the UK. We are excited about the future of this series and are thrilled to be part of its journey.”
The series’ producer and director Georgina Hurcombe accepted the award alongside various other members of the Pop Paper City team.
Speaking about the award win, Georgina said: “We are delighted to have won an RTS Award for Pop Paper City. As a small regional studio from Bournemouth, Dorset, we are so grateful to all our partners for taking a chance on us and allowing us to create this vast and exciting paper world. We are so proud to be encouraging kids around the UK, and soon around the world, to get crafty and we cant wait to show you even more of the world over the 52 episodes!
Watch Pop Paper City every weekend on Channel 5’s Milkshake!