THE NIGHT GARDEN, IT'S THE NEW TELETUBBIES!

[Aufish]

Just watching the night garden for the first time and come to the conclusion it is the Teletubbies the 2000's! Upsy Daisy = Dipsy, the little one with the scooter is Po, and the blue on is Tinky Winky!

Good so I have one more for my kill Granny Murray campaign!

Not you SueBaroo - or you bunny. Let's all go and live there
(Your name is quite suitable Suebaroo!)

I love it too. I want to know what Derek Jacobi's face looked like when they handed him the script. I wonder how much direction he needed? La, la, la, li, la, li, Laaah, laaah....

My 16 month DS loves this and stares transfixed, giggles when Maccapacca says "maccapacca" but cries when it finishes....never like this with teletubbies or balamory

My DD (4.5) loves it. I think is is too babyish for her, but if I suggest turning it off she has a fit.

My DD 21 months got the telly tubbies connection too - she calls the flying farty thing - noo noo. She loves it too - cried when it finished today (apparently I used to cry when Marine Boy finished . DH and I quite like it, but I do think that 1/2 hour is a bit long.

Is anyone else frankly shocked that Derek Jacobi has nothing better to do than narrate this programme?

No! I think things like this benefit hugely from having someone really top-quality narrating them. Also if it cost £15 million to make he probably got a big whack. Or maybe he has grandchildren he dotes on and wanted to do it for them? Good on him anyway.

I have always assumed he is gay but I have discovered this from a website about him:

Sir Derek is a private man, preferring to keep his own life out of the public eye. He has remained single and claims that he is not the marrying kind, nor has he ever wanted children of his own, although he adores other people's and has four godchildren. He shares his Victorian home in North London with his Irish terrier, Bella, and loathes social gatherings.

I think that anyone offered a script like this thinks of the royalties that come from it being repeated ad nauseam in many different countries, and grabs it with both hands.

I know - the man has to live. But I have (had) so much respect for Derek Jacobi - dh and I have been to see him in many plays - but to hear him saying "Macker- Packer, knicker-knacker, micker-mocker-moo" or whatever it is, is rather depressing.

Give that man an Oscar - "macca pacca dum ding doopy loopy loo plinky plonky ickle pickle dickle doo...." WTF?

However DS is glued to it

Ds3 also, but he is recovering from an op at the moment and watching CBeebies all day, every day.

Yes, perhaps I should view it differently. Only an actor as great as DJ could say that script without cracking up.

I know what you mean DG (I fell in love with DJ when he did Hamlet at the Old Vic and I was an impressionable 14 year old) but it is such a lovely voice intoning Makka Pakka, etc. I would honestly try to see it as an advantage instead of, eg, the woman who does Razzle Dazzle. Her voice would cut holes in granite, argh.

LOL at the bit about the woman who does RazzleDazzle! Is that the one with the permanently startled eyebrows expression on her face?

DJ's voice does make ickle pickle..blah blah blah seem quite poetic and soothing doesn't it? That must be why the little ones are so transfixed by it.

i wanted to hate it, i really wanted to hate it. But from the first time my dd watched it (19m) she was transfixed and chilled, its amazing, there must be a very clever bit of child psych going on here because it all goes above (or below?) my head but there must be something in it. FANTASTIC.

my boy19 mnths bloomin loves it.isnt itmade by the same people who did the teletubbies??

yesterday my 30m old dd was watching this and she accidently sat on the remote control and it changed channel she had a panic attack yelling "mummy" "mummy" "MUMMY"!! as i was making a cuppa in the kitchen, usually it doesnt bother her if the channel get turned over but not "The Night Garden" !!

It transfixes all three of my DSs (aged 7, 5 and 2).

Well we all love it in our house. I love the opening sequence with the baby going to bed and the rhyme, and Iggle Piggle in his little boat...who could not be charmed by that?

Ds has re-named our car the Ninky Nonk!

Someone mentioned further down the thread that Makka Pakka's house looks like the beautiful Skara Brae settlement on Orkney. From last night's show I can see what they meant
I love the music too. In fact it's taken about four episodes to completely convince me
I do get a bit worn down by dd pouting about lack of Tombli-Boo presence recently. Even them dancing in the chorus line is not enough.

RIght. We've watched the last 4 or 5 episodes now and I think I get it. Even more repetition than the Tubbies and a recap "story" at the end. Narration is v Camberwick Green and just right.

DD (21 mths)has grown up with Cbeebies on because of ds (4.5) and I have never seen her react to any programme like this before. It's like she's met long lost relatives or the last of her species. She is so happy to see that blue thing and the strange beige turd-like one that she snogs the screen.

Are there subliminal messages encoded in the broadcast? Reminds me of a Dr Who episode

Toddler drugs.

Great stuff

the bit at the beginning with the little boat reminds me of the Clangers - aww happy childhood memorieswhat was the boat on the Clangers called?

God I know I know. My dcs love it too, even my 4 year old is smitten , but then he still loves the Tellietubbies so fair enough.
It is most peculiar and is causing problems with our evening meal, as we usually don't allow TV after we have eaten at 6ish.
But it was obviously on one day for them to get instantly and completely hooked. Dh was looking after them last week, so I am blaming him

DD looked at "strange, turd-like" Makka Pakka last night and said, He's made of sand and shells, like his little beach house mummy.
And she adores the Tombli-Boos who I think are truly ugly to an adult's eyes