''Bob the Builder'' is a
CGI animated
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children's television
Children's television series (or children's television shows) are television show, television programs designed for children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run during ...
series and a
reboot
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of the 1999 animated television series
of the same name. It premiered in the United Kingdom on
Channel 5 on 1 September 2015 and ended on 30 December 2018. 130 episodes and 3 series were produced.
Episodes
Cast
United Kingdom
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Lee Ingleby
Lee David Ingleby (born 28 January 1976) is an English film, television and stage actor.
He is best known for his roles as Detective Sergeant/Detective Inspector John Bacchus in the BBC drama ''Inspector George Gently'', as Stan Shunpike in ...
as Bob
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Blake Harrison
Blake Harrison is an English actor, comedian and dancer. He is best known for playing Neil Sutherland in the BAFTA-winning E4 comedy ''The Inbetweeners'' and more recently as 'Medium' Dan, in the ITV sitcom Kate & Koji since 2020.
Career
H ...
as Scoop
* Paul Panting as Muck
* Steven Kynman as Lofty and Dash Lightning
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Terry Mynott
Terry Mynott (born 21 November 1974) is an English comedian, actor, impressionist and singer. He stars as Martin Hurdle in Channel 4’s '' The Mimic'', having previously appeared in ''The Morgana Show'' and '' Very Important People''. In 2022 ...
as Two-Tonne and Tiny
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Jacob Scipio
Jacob Muntaz Scipio (born January 10, 1993) is an English actor and writer.
In 2016, Scipio co-founded CPO Productions. In that time he has written and starred in ''The Writers Group'' (2018) and ''Cowboys & Angels'' (2016), short films that pre ...
as Leo
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Joanne Froggatt
Joanne Froggatt (born 23 August 1980) is a British actress. From 2010 to 2015, she portrayed Anna Bates in the ITV period drama series ''Downton Abbey''. For this role, she received three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a ...
as Wendy
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Sarah Hadland
Sarah Hadland is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Stevie Sutton in the BBC One BAFTA-nominated comedy television series '' Miranda'' (2009–2015) and Trish in ''The Job Lot'' (2013–2015).
Hadland appeared as the Ocean S ...
as Dizzy, Lift Voice, Betsy and Vet Tilly
* Nick Mercer as Mr. Bentley and Farmer Pickles
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Marcel McCalla
Marcel McCalla (born February 1981) is a British actor, voice artist and musician from London. He has appeared in several stage productions and television shows, including ''Grange Hill'' for five series and ''Footballers' Wives'' for two series ...
as Roley
* Sam Swann as Stretch
* William Haresceugh as JJ (Not to be confused with the character from the Original Series)
* Mia Hope as Saffi
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Lucy Montgomery as Mayor Madison, Jenny Dobbs and Shifter
* Holly Hazelton as Mila
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Dustin Demri-Burns
Dustin Demri-Burns (born 11 July 1978) is a British actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for his work in ''Cardinal Burns''.
He appeared in films as the roles of Danny Sinclair in the 2013 film '' Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa'' (2013), Vik ...
as Tread
* Steve Cannon as Phillip and various minor roles
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Phil Cornwell
Philip Cornwell (born 5 October 1957) is an English actor, comedian, impressionist and writer. He is part of the '' Dead Ringers'' television and radio series, and was the voice of Murdoc Niccals in the virtual band Gorillaz. Cornwell has co-w ...
as Alfred
United States
* Colin Murdock as Bob
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Blake Harrison
Blake Harrison is an English actor, comedian and dancer. He is best known for playing Neil Sutherland in the BAFTA-winning E4 comedy ''The Inbetweeners'' and more recently as 'Medium' Dan, in the ITV sitcom Kate & Koji since 2020.
Career
H ...
as Scoop
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Vincent Tong as Muck and Brandon
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Richard Ian Cox
Richard Ian Cox (born October 3, 1973) is a Welsh-born Canadian actor, comedian and online radio host. He is best known for his voice work for English language dubs of anime, mainly for ''Inuyasha''. Cox gained prominence for playing the cha ...
as Lofty
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Richard Newman as Two-Tonne
* Daniel Bacon as Leo
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Joanne Froggatt
Joanne Froggatt (born 23 August 1980) is a British actress. From 2010 to 2015, she portrayed Anna Bates in the ITV period drama series ''Downton Abbey''. For this role, she received three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a ...
as Wendy
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Claire Corlett
Claire Margaret Corlett (born July 9, 1999) is a Canadian actress, known most notably for her nine years of voice work on the family fantasy/comedy animated television series '' My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'', for which she provided the ...
as Dizzy
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Ian James Corlett
Ian James Corlett (born August 29, 1962) is a Canadian voice actor, animator, and author. He is the creator of Studio B Productions' animated series ''Being Ian'' and ''Yvon of the Yukon''. One of his best-known animation roles was the first En ...
as Roley and Mr Bentley
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Erin Mathews
Erin Mathews (born May 28, 1977) is a Canadian voice actress
Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs to present a character or provide information to an audience. Performers are called voice actors/actresses, voice artists, dubbi ...
as JJ and Vet Tilly
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Lee Tockar
Lee William Tockar (born 1969) is a Canadian voice actor and visual artist who works for several studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is also a writer of children's literature, a musician, sculptor, illustrator and collected painter ...
as Tiny
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Peter New
Peter New is a Canadian actor and screenwriter, best known for his roles as Big McIntosh in ''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' and Sunil Nevla in ''Littlest Pet Shop (2012 TV series), Littlest Pet Shop''.
In 2007, New's script "The Bar" wo ...
as Stretch
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Steve Cannon as Phillip
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Lucy Montgomery as Jenny Dobbs
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Cole Howard
Cole Howard is a fictional character from the CBS soap opera ''The Young and the Restless''. The role was originated by N.P. Schoch in 1980 and was dropped in 1981, before being brought back and portrayed by J. Eddie Peck from 1993 to 1999.
Sto ...
as Shifter
* Ryan Beil as Tread
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Nicole Oliver
Nicole Lyn Oliver (born February 22, 1970) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her roles as Princess Celestia and Cheerilee in '' My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' and Zoe Trent in ''Littlest Pet Shop''.
Early life
Oliver was born i ...
as Mayor Madison
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Kazumi Evans
Kazumi Evans (born September 14, 1989) is a Canadian actress. She began her career as a contestant on the CBC's '' Triple Sensation''. As a voice actress, she has voiced Saffi on ''Bob the Builder'', Madeline on '' The Deep'', and Skipper in the ...
as Saffi
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Rebecca Shoichet
Rebecca Shoichet ( ; born February 16, 1975) is a Canadian voice actress and singer who has voiced in English dubs of Japanese anime and other shows for Ocean Productions in Vancouver. She took over Saffron Henderson's role of Sota Higurashi in ...
as Mila and Betsy
Production and broadcast
Turner Broadcasting System bought the broadcasting rights for the 2015 series in the United Kingdom to be repeated on
Cartoon Network UK
Cartoon Network (commonly abbreviated as CN) is a British pay television channel aimed at children which airs animated programming targeting children and young aged 6 to 12. 's sister preschool channel
Cartoonito
Cartoonito is a brand name used by Warner Bros. Discovery for a collection of television networks and programming blocks that target preschool-age children. The name combines the "cartoon" with the Spanish suffix "ito", meaning "small".
As of 2 ...
UK. The channel began airing the series in January 2016.
In the US, the series airs on
PBS Kids
PBS Kids is the brand for most of the children's programming aired by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. Some public television children's programs are not produced by PBS member stations or transmitted by PBS. Instead, ...
in the United States on 14 November 2015 to November 2018.
Qubo
Qubo ( ; stylized as qubo) was an American television network for children between the ages of 5 and 14. Owned by Ion Media, it consisted of a 24-hour free-to-air television network often mentioned as the "Qubo channel" (available as a digital ...
aired the series from 2019 to 2021 for the British dub before Qubo ceased operations. The show currently airs on
Kids Street.
In Canada, the series aired on
Family Jr.
Family Jr. is a multiplex channel of the Canadian specialty channel Family Channel. It broadcasts children's programming aimed at viewers aged 2 to 7.
The channel launched on November 30, 2007 as a Canadian version of Playhouse Disney, under ...
while in Quebec, the series aired on
Télé-Québec
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.
In Australia, the series airs on
10 Peach
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and on
ABC Kids.
In New Zealand, the series airs on
TVNZ
, type = Crown entity
, industry = Broadcast television
, num_locations = New Zealand
, location = Auckland, New Zealand
, area_served = Nationally (New Zealand) and some Pacific Island nations such as the Cook Islands, Fiji, and the So ...
.
References
External links
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