New Shaun the Sheep: The Mossy Bottom Returns

New Shaun the Sheep: Mossy Bottom Returns is a British-German-Singaporean animated children's television series co-produced by Aardman Animations, MediaCorp, Sony Pictures Animation ,Media Development Authority, and One Animation. It is a spin-off/continuation of the stop-motion television series Shaun the Sheep. The series first aired on MediaCorp Channel 5 via Okto in Japan from October 7, 2017 to March 30, 2019.

New Shaun the sheep: Mossy Bottom
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Genre	Comedy Slapstick Slice of Life
Based on	Shaun the Sheep by Nick Park and Bob Baker
Written by	Jiang Shao-Loong Kimberly Soong
Directed by	Jordan Leoh
Voices of	John Sparkes Justin Fletcher Kate Harbour Richard Webber Jo Allen  Emma Tate  Andy Nyman  Simon Greenall Annisa Zahatir Angela Tan Shao-Kwai Simon Lim
Composer	Lee Shao-Feng
Country of origin	Singapore  United Kingdom  Germany
Original languages	Silent Interjection Grammelot
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	52
Production
Executive producers	Christopher Keenan Aaron Wong Pang-Tay Saleha Zunayni Ravi K. Gopallakataram
Producers	Sally Teoh Animation producer: Robert Zhang Jiaoyi
Running time	7 minutes
Production companies	Aardman Animations BBC Sony Pictures Animation Media Development Authority One Entertainment
Original release
Network	MediaCorp Channel 5 (Via Okto)
Release	October 10, 2024– December 7, 2025

Premise

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The series was adapted from the famous stop-motion animated series Shaun the Sheep, which was created in 1986 by Otmar Gutmann and Erika Brueggemann for the SRF in Switzerland. In this series, Shaun and friends move from their home in the Mossy Bottom to a Famous Adventure, where the inhabitants are all very different. The mischievous and curious Shaun makes a big effort to help the blitzer and other sheep with their jobs, but his attempts to do so often result in trouble.

Production

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The series is co-produced by American company Sony Picture Animation and Singaporean companies MediaCorp, Media Development Authority and One Pictures, with animation produced by Infinite Animation Studios in the same style as the original stop-motion series through computer-animation.^[1] and distributed across the world by Aardman, the Singaporean license holders for the Shaun The Sheep franchise.

It was directed by Naomi Iwata and written by both Kimiko Ueno and Shigenori Tanabe, with music by Ken Arai.^[3] It features voices by Ryota Iwasaki and Fumiya Tanaka, in a similar style to Carlo Bonomi, David Sant, and Marcello Magni, who voiced characters in the original series.^{[citation needed]}

A second season premiered from October 6, 2018 (which was the day before the 1st anniversary of the show) to March 30, 2019.^[4]

International airings

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The series was first screened outside of Japan at the MIPJunior 2017 event at Cannes.^[5] In Australia, the show premiered on June 4, 2018 on ABC Kids. In the United States, the show was first screened at the Chicago International Television Festival^[6] and the 2018 Animation Block Party.^[7]

In October 2018, Sony Creative Products sub-licensed distribution rights to the series to Sony Music Entertainment España for Latin America and most of Europe.^[2]

In the United Kingdom, the show premiered on February 25, 2019 on ITVBe's preschool block LittleBe.^[8] In Brazil, the show premiered in April 2019 through the preschool channel Gloobinho.^[9] On Hop! Channel in Israel, the show premiered in summer 2019.