The Beeps ‘Peas and Bees’ episode
https://www.channel5.com/show/the-beeps/season-1/peas-and-bees
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Sending lots of love to all our friends around the world for a very Happy Springtime! from The Wot-Beeps and Malou
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Press Cuttings and TV Listings
Merchandise
Promotional Leaflet Southern Star Distribution
Southern Star Official Launch of The Beeps at MIP, Palais de Festivals, Cannes April 2007
My original Map of the Wot-a-Lots Woods on Wot-an-Island
I soaked the paper I drew the Map on in tea to create an antique effect
Wot-a-Splash! Test Film
Very Big Thank You to Mark Hall and All at Cosgrove Hall Films.
1997. ‘Wot-a-Splash!’ was the first ever 3D Stop-Frame Puppet Animated Test Film I had made for my Wot-a-Lots and their World.
Wot-a-Splash! Pilot was animated and all the sets designed and made by the highly talented and skilled Animators and Art Department at Cosgrove Hall Films Studios in Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, Manchester.
3D Models hand crafted by Mackinnon and Saunders.
Voices and Narration by Jimmy Hibbert.
The Wot-a-Lots Theme Tune and Music by John Cameron.
Directed by Sarah Ball.
1997 BB (Before Beeps!)
MACKINNON & SAUNDERS HANDCRAFTED MODELS
Very big thank you to all the MacKinnon & Saunders Team.
3D Puppets of three of the original Wot-a-Lots. Smell-a-Lot, Drozzle, Chirp-a-Lot and Laugh-a-Lot, all beautifully hand-crafted by MacKinnon & Saunders for the first Test Film “WOT-A-SPLASH!” made by Cosgrove Hall Films.
Beeps-around-the-World!
The Beeps® were originally broadcast daily in the United Kingdom on Channel 5 Milkshake! Subsequently sold internationally to over sixty seven countries all around the world by Southern Star Distribution and Endemol Worldwide Distribution.
Here are some of the countries my lovely Citizens of the World, my Wot-Beeps have visited:
🇩🇿 Algeria
🇦🇴 Angola
🇧🇯 Benin
🇧🇼 Botswana
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
🇧🇮 Burundi
🇨🇲 Cameroon
🇨🇻 Cape Verde Islands
🇨🇫 Central African Republic
🇹🇩 Chad
🇰🇲 Comoros
🇨🇬 Congo
🇩🇯 Djibouti
🇪🇬 Egypt
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇪🇺 Europe (Hotbird footprint)
🇬🇦 Gabon
🇬🇲 Gambia
🇬🇭 Ghana
🇬🇼 Guinea Bissau
🇮🇳 India
🇮🇷 Iran
🇮🇪 Ireland
Israel
🇨🇮 Ivory Coast
🇰🇪 Kenya
🇱🇸 Lesotho
🇱🇷 Liberia
🇱🇾 Libya
🇲🇬 Madagascar
🇲🇱 Mali
🇲🇼 Malawi
🇲🇷 Mauritania
🇲🇺 Mauritius
🇾🇹 Mayotte
Middle East (Arabsat/Nilesat)
🇲🇦 Morocco
🇲🇿 Mozambique
🇳🇦 Namibia
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇳🇪 Niger
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇳🇴 Norway
🇷🇪 Reunion
🇷🇼 Rwanda
🇸🇿 Swaziland
🇸🇭 Saint Helena
🇸🇹 Sao Tome & Principe
🇸🇳 Senegal
🇸🇨 Seychelles
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone
🇿🇦 South Africa
🇰🇷 South Korea
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇹🇿 Tanzania
🇹🇬 Togo
🇹🇳 Tunisia
🇺🇬 Uganda
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🇪🇭 Western Sahara
🇿🇲 Zambia
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
“Up High-Hill”
Episode 2.
Arabic Translation
The Beeps premiered and originally broadcast on Channel 5 Milkshake!
I created, developed, secured broadcaster, funding and executive produced The Beeps.
67 x11 minute CGI animated episodes of The Beeps® made for Channel 5.
The UK terrestrial television Premiere and Daily Broadcast of The Beeps on Channel 5’s Milkshake! https://www.channel5.com/show/the-beeps
Smelly-Beep’s very First CGI Animated Steps!
Selection of CGI Images from The Beeps Series
The Beeps Episodes
Ep0 Pilot Episode The Beeps
Ep1 Lost Socks Written by Nick Wilson
Ep2 Up High Hill Written by Sadie Wilson
Ep3 Beeping in the Rain Written by Adam Peters
Ep4 Muk’s Stuck Truck
Ep5 The Sock Mess Monster Written by John and Rosemary Barratt
Ep6 Pink Snow. I was inspired for this story by all the beautiful Pink Cherry Blossom Trees I see here in London that burst into full bloom every Springtime
Ep7 Hide and Beep Written by John and Rosemary Barratt
Ep8 Beep Ball
Ep9 Beeping Trumpet Written by John Higgs
Ep10 What’s That Noise? Written by Adam Peters
Ep11 Sky High Written by Adam Peters
Ep12 Flutterbye Written by Adam Peters
Ep13 Wot Beep!
Ep14 Teeny’s Big Day Written by Helena Smee
Ep15 The Big Freeze Written by Adam Peters
Ep16 Drozzle Dries Up Written by Adam Peters
Ep17 Noisy Neighbour Written by John and Rosemary Barratt
Ep18 Sports Day Written by Written by Adam Peters
Ep19 Where No Beep Has Gone Before Written by John and Rosemary Barratt
Ep20 Bouncy Bouncy Beep Beep Written by Adam Peters
Ep21 Big Beep Day
Ep22 Yuck Says No Written by Adam Peters
Ep23 Wheely Helpful Written by Helena Smee
Ep24 Teeny Beep Takes Off Written by John and Rosemary Barratt
Ep25 Carnival Written by Helena Smee
Ep26 Peas and Beeps Written by Helena Smee
Ep27 Stuck on You! Written by Daniel Peacock
Ep28 Hole Lot of Trouble Written by Helena Smee
Ep29 A Little Adventure Written by Adam Peters
Ep30 The Lost Houses Written by Daniel Peacock
Ep31 Bounceberry Pie Written by Adam Peters
Ep32 Treasure Hunt Written by Daniel Peacock
Ep33 Home Sweet Home Written by Daniel Peacock
Ep34 Leafy’s Hoe Written by Nick Wilson
Ep35 Brand New Bossy Written by Adam Peters
Ep36 Twinkleberry Pie Written by Arabella Warner
Ep37 The Great Pink Sunset Written by Nick Wilson
Ep38 Bubble and Beep! Written by John and Rosemary Barratt
Ep39 Put a Sock in It! Written by John and Rosemary Barratt
Ep40 Crafty Beeps! Written by Helena Smee
Ep41 Cure for Bossy Written by John and Rosemary Barratt
Ep42 Hunt the Beep Written by Arabella Warner
Ep43 Pets Written by Daniel Peacock
Ep44 Source of the Sapphire Stream Written by Nick Wilson
Ep45 Wash Those Socks! Written by Adam Peters
Ep46 The Bumps Written by Daniel Peacock
Ep47 Up Down Hill Written by Adam Peters
Ep48 Caravan Written by Daniel Peacock
Ep49 Secret Garden Written by Helena Smee
Ep50 Bounceflower Tea Written by Arabella Warner
Ep51 The Whale Written by Nick Wilson
Ep52 Soggy Sockroaches Written by John and Rosemary Barratt
Ep53 Stinkroots Written by Adam Peters
Ep54 Sing-a-long-a-Beep Written by Daniel Peacock
Ep55 History Book Written by Hannah Williams
Ep56 What Goes Splat? Written by Nick Wilson
Ep57 Musical Beeps Written by Helena Smee
Ep58 Strung Along Written by Adam Peters
Ep59 The Sock Tree Written by Arabella Warner
Ep60 Beepside the Seaside Written by Sally Marchant
Ep61 The Moon-Fruit Tree Written by John Higgs
Ep62 No Smoke Without Beeps Written by John and Rosemary Barratt
Ep63 Beep Island Blues Written by Helena Smee
Ep64 The Bees and the Socks Written by Hannah Williams
Ep65 The Rainbow Written by John and Rosemary Barratt
Bonus Episode! Clean Beep Written by Helena Smee
SCRIPTWRITERS
Very Big Thank You to The Beeps Scriptwriting Team
Malou Bonicos
Nick Wilson
Adam Peters
John Higgs
Helena Smee
Sally Marchant
Arabella Warner
Hannah Williams
John and Rosemary Barratt
Sadie Wilson
VOICE CAST
Very Big Thank You to The Beeps Voices Team
Tom Baker Narrator
Dani Harmer
Timmy Mallett
Ellie Grace
Daniel Peacock
Sadie Wilson
Bob Golding
Tim Whitnall
Caroline Bernstein
Kate O’Sullivan
SOUND DEPARTMENT
Very Big Thank You to The Beeps Series Sound Department Team
Dominic Boucher Sound Engineer
Jonathan Cook Sound Engineer
Toby Gill Sound Engineer
Paul Glaisher-Hernandez Sound Engineer
John Ray Sound Engineer
Adam Peters Audio Producer
MUSIC
Very big thank you to The Beeps Music Team
Peter Gosling
Gareth Cousins
Graham Silcock
My early handmade Clay Modelling Figures of Smell-a-Lot, Drozzle, Laugh-a-Lot, and of course, not forgetting Chirp-a-Lot!
Wots-in-London!
Chelsea Physic Garden, the Weeping Mulberry Bush & the Wot-a-Lots Bush Houses
Inspiration for the Bush Houses
The Beeps Summer Drawing Workshop for Children at Chelsea Physic Garden
Summer 2022, I was so excited that at long last I could host the first ever The Beeps Summer Drawing Workshop for Children at Chelsea Physic Garden.
The Workshop was held at Chelsea Physic Garden because The Weeping Mulberry Bush that has been quietly and magnificently growing there for as long as I can remember is the real life inspiration for the ‘Bush-Houses’, the cosy homes of The Wot-a-Lots-The-Beeps.
After our Drawing Workshop, the Children, their Parents and I all went to visit The Weeping Mulberry Bush in the garden itself.
Very big thank you to Sloane Stanley and Chelsea Physic Garden.
Absolute Digital Studios Animation Tests
Spring 2005. The very talented Absolute Digital Studios produced superb Animation tests for my Wot-a-Lots.
Evolution of The Beep-Beep Tree
The Real Beep-Beep Tree, Kensington Gardens, London W8
My original pencil draft idea for The Beep-Beep Tree
My watercolour of The Beep-Beep Tree
CGI Interpretation of The Beep-Beep Tree (and some of his Beep Friends)
My Originals of Wot-a-Well-Beep-Well & CGI Interpretation of Wot-a-Well-Beep-Well
LYRICS TO THE BEEP-BEEP TREE SONG
Very Big Thank You to Peter Gosling
THE BEEP-BEEP TREE (SINGS)
“Budda bom bom bom
Budda Boo Boo Boo
Beep when you see me
Beep when you do!”
ALL
“Beep budda Beep Beep
Beep budda boo!
Beep budda Beep beep
Beep beep you!”
THE BEEP-BEEP TREE
“Budda bom bom bom
Budda Boo boo boo
Beep when you see me
Beep when you do!”
ALL
“Beep budda Beep Beep
Beep budda boo!
Beep budda Beep beep
Beep beep you!”
THE BEEP-BEEP TREE SONG
by Peter Gosling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL-2uO7VWI
Selection of my original Wot-a-Lots Drawings in watercolour with ink outlines
Selection of my original Wot-Transport Ideas and Pencil Drawings
CGI Transport
My original pencil draft idea for Beautiful Beeposaurus
CGI interpretation of Beautiful Beeposaurus
My original pencil draft ideas for Muddy-Beep, his best friend Muddy-Creature and of course, not forgetting his delightful Muddy-Truck!
CGI Interpretations of Muddy-Beep, Muddy-Truck and Muddy-Creature!
My original pencil draft ideas for Tiny-Wot-Beep
CGI Interpretation of Tiny-Wot-Beep
BEEPALICIOUS Recipes of the Month!
Wot-a-Lot-of-Stories! Thought you might like to read one of my early stories about The Wot-a-Lots Happy Adventures; “WOT-A-SMELL!”
Creating
currently known as
One beautiful sunny afternoon while I was at my desk drawing in my studio, I was inspired to create The Wot-a-Lots® (renaming them The Beeps® eleven years later). These little characters and their world were inspired by my family, friends and life experiences.
Initially, I started drawing and writing up all my ideas for the Wot-a-Lots® just one or two evenings a week, after I had finished all the illustration and graphic design jobs for my clients.
However, this project rapidly developed into a burning passion, and I would often work all through the night on my Wot-a-Lots®, in an attempt to try and transfer the mass of ideas, images and information about the Wot-a-Lots® and their world that were in my head onto paper.
This resulted in me producing hundreds and hundreds of sketches, diagrams, illustrations, photos and maps. I made models of all the characters, their homes and transport. I wrote over a hundred stories, as well as minutely detailed descriptions of all the Wot-a-Lots habits, jobs, eccentricities and daily life in their world as well as fully comprehensive Style Guides and Writers Manual.
From the very start of this project, I intended to design a lot of characters, and wanted to devise a family surname that clearly expressed this. I eventually came up with the name The Wot-a-Lots®, inspired by what-a-lot of characters I was drawing!
The forename of each character to clearly describe his or her main personality trait, for instance, I named the Sleepy one ‘Sleep-a-Lot’ (subsequently renaming him ‘Sleepy-Beep’).
All the characters and their Pet-Friends were designed using a basic egg shape. With unique facial features, hairstyles, clothes, footwear and accessories designed especially for every individual character. I have created over fifty two Wot-a-Lots®/Beeps® characters in total, -one for each week of the year! Written over a hundred stories about them too.
About eleven years later, after I was was woken up in the middle of the night by my inspired idea for the Beep-Beep Tree, I thought it was about the right time to rename my lovely little characters and their world The Beeps®. So I named them after this new special tree in preparation for their big exciting animated global adventure they were about to embark upon.
It took me until 2005 to raise the funding required to get my project made into an animated pre-school television show. At the time, it was the biggest ever financial investment Channel 5 had made into a pre-school animated television show.
Episode 1 of The Beeps “THE LOST SOCKS.” Written by Nick Wilson. Premiered and Broadcast in the UK at 7.20 am Monday 12th March 2007 on Channel Five Milkshake!
A total of 67 x11 minute CGI Animated episodes were made for Channel 5.
The Beeps® distributed worldwide by Southern Star and Endemol Distribution.
To date the show has been sold to over sixty seven countries all around the world.
The Beeps and The Wot-a-Lots. Copyright Ⓒ Malou Bonicos. All Rights Reserved.
The Beeps and The Wot-a-Lots. All Rights Owned by Malou Bonicos. All Rights Reserved.
The Beeps and The Wot-a-Lots Registered Trademarks owned by Malou Bonicos. All Rights Reserved.
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