''What's Your News?'' is a children's animated/live-action television programme. It is billed as the first-ever news show for and about children, helping them deal with their transition into the world around them. The series use to be shown in all English countries. But as of 2019, it's only airing in the U.S. It aired on in Canada CBC (stopped airing in 2019), in the UK on

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(stopped airing in 2014), in the U.S. on

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(stopped airing in 2014) and in Australia on

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Overview

''What's Your News?'' is a children's television series that concentrates on children's news. Hosted by animated news anchors, Grant the Ant and Antony the Aardvark, it follows the classic news programme format and features interviews with children, special reports, traffic updates, and weather reports.

Production

The series was created by Original Pictures and TT Animation; a small production company which is a subsidiary of

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, in turn part of

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, a division of American conglomerate

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. It was produced using a technologically innovative combination of

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, and Performed Animation, in conjunction with director Robert Tygner and originating puppeteer

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. A total of 52 episodes were produced over an 18-month period. It features both CGI content and CGI characters composited into filmed

live action Live action (or live-action) is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation. Some works combine live-action with animation to create a live-action animated film. Live-action is used to define film, video ga ...

sequences. The series' production framework sidesteps many of the labor and time intensive activities normally associated with animated content creation. Character animations are obtained via acted

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methods, with instrumented

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rigs being used for facial and other auxiliary animations.

References

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