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Art Attack is a British children's television programme revolving around art, originally hosted by Neil Buchanan on CITV from 1990 to 2007, and subsequently hosted by Lloyd Warbey on Disney Junior from 2012 to 2015.
The original programme aired on CITV between 15 June 1990 and 19 May 2007, and was presented by one of its creators, Neil Buchanan, throughout. Buchanan also wrote and produced the programme, and came up with a majority of the creative ideas.
A new series launched on Disney Junior on 6 June 2011 and was presented by Jassa Ahluwalia. Each show involved Ahluwalia voicing-over footage of an artist producing three works of art, taking the viewer through the various stages of production step by step. Ahluwalia was later replaced with Lloyd Warbey at the start of the British second revived series.
The programme was originally a TVS production, devised by two TVS employees, Neil Buchanan and Tim Edmunds. Buchanan and Edmunds met each other at Southern Television in 1982, and worked together on No. 73 and Do It!.
The first Art Attacks were a strand within No. 73, and this segment proved so popular, Nigel Pickard, the executive producer of children's programming at TVS, green-lit the pilot. The Art Attack pilot was shot on location at a disused swimming pool in Gillingham, Kent in 1989, and the series began the following year.
Throughout its run, the series used theme-music composed by Mr Miller & Mr Porter, and inspired at Buchanan's suggestion by the hit Kenny Loggins song Danger Zone, from the 1986 film Top Gun.
When TVS lost its franchise, Edmunds and Buchanan bought the rights to the show and produced Art Attack through their company, The Media Merchants. The Media Merchants used STV Studios (then known as "SMG Productions"), as the ITV company to get the series onto the network: this was partly due to the fact that Nigel Pickard had moved to Scottish Television. In 1993, another ex-TVS employee, Peter Urie, set up a production management company, Television Support Services. Television Support Services managed and co-wrote all the Media Merchants productions.
For most of its run, the show was filmed at The Maidstone Studios, Maidstone, Kent. In 1998, The Media Merchants signed a production deal with Disney's Buena Vista Productions to produce a series of 104 episodes for Germany, France, Italy, and Spain, 26 each, and were branded under the Disney umbrella. These versions were recorded at Maidstone but on a smaller set than the original UK versions and mostly utilized stock footage from it. The respective local hosts displayed the artwork in between stages and explained what to do next, while footage of Buchanan's hands producing the artwork was used. As such, his Big Art Attacks were also retained, as was The Head, dubbed over by relevant local voice artists. The Disney deal was expanded in April 2000 with an additional forty episodes for Latin America and Brazil, split into twenty episodes each and an additional set of episodes in March 2002.
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Art Attack
Art Attack is a British children's television programme revolving around art, originally hosted by Neil Buchanan on CITV from 1990 to 2007, and subsequently hosted by Lloyd Warbey on Disney Junior from 2012 to 2015.
The original programme aired on CITV between 15 June 1990 and 19 May 2007, and was presented by one of its creators, Neil Buchanan, throughout. Buchanan also wrote and produced the programme, and came up with a majority of the creative ideas.
A new series launched on Disney Junior on 6 June 2011 and was presented by Jassa Ahluwalia. Each show involved Ahluwalia voicing-over footage of an artist producing three works of art, taking the viewer through the various stages of production step by step. Ahluwalia was later replaced with Lloyd Warbey at the start of the British second revived series.
The programme was originally a TVS production, devised by two TVS employees, Neil Buchanan and Tim Edmunds. Buchanan and Edmunds met each other at Southern Television in 1982, and worked together on No. 73 and Do It!.
The first Art Attacks were a strand within No. 73, and this segment proved so popular, Nigel Pickard, the executive producer of children's programming at TVS, green-lit the pilot. The Art Attack pilot was shot on location at a disused swimming pool in Gillingham, Kent in 1989, and the series began the following year.
Throughout its run, the series used theme-music composed by Mr Miller & Mr Porter, and inspired at Buchanan's suggestion by the hit Kenny Loggins song Danger Zone, from the 1986 film Top Gun.
When TVS lost its franchise, Edmunds and Buchanan bought the rights to the show and produced Art Attack through their company, The Media Merchants. The Media Merchants used STV Studios (then known as "SMG Productions"), as the ITV company to get the series onto the network: this was partly due to the fact that Nigel Pickard had moved to Scottish Television. In 1993, another ex-TVS employee, Peter Urie, set up a production management company, Television Support Services. Television Support Services managed and co-wrote all the Media Merchants productions.
For most of its run, the show was filmed at The Maidstone Studios, Maidstone, Kent. In 1998, The Media Merchants signed a production deal with Disney's Buena Vista Productions to produce a series of 104 episodes for Germany, France, Italy, and Spain, 26 each, and were branded under the Disney umbrella. These versions were recorded at Maidstone but on a smaller set than the original UK versions and mostly utilized stock footage from it. The respective local hosts displayed the artwork in between stages and explained what to do next, while footage of Buchanan's hands producing the artwork was used. As such, his Big Art Attacks were also retained, as was The Head, dubbed over by relevant local voice artists. The Disney deal was expanded in April 2000 with an additional forty episodes for Latin America and Brazil, split into twenty episodes each and an additional set of episodes in March 2002.