Mister Maker

mister maker
Genre	Children's
Written by	Nic Ayling Driana Jones Phil Gallagher
Directed by	James Morgan Helen Scott Peter Eyre
Starring	Phil Gallagher
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of series	3
Production
Executive producer(s)	Vanessa Hill
Producer(s)	Driana Jones (Series) Nic Ayling (Associate)
Location(s)	Maidstone
Running time	19 min (2008) 25 min (2009) 43 min (2010) 53 min (2011)
Production company(s)	The Foundation
Broadcast
Original channel	CBeebies
Picture format	16:9
Original airing	2007
External links
Website
Production website

Mister Maker is a pre-school children's arts and crafts programme commissioned by Michael Carrington at the BBC for CBeebies.^[1] The programme launched in 2007^[2] and also airs on BBC One and BBC Two. In the United States and Latin America the show airs on the Discovery Familia network, dubbed in Spanish.^[3] To date three series have been commissioned from The Foundation (part of RDF Media).^[2][4]. It also airs in Australia on ABC2. The programme comprises a mixture of animation and real time content. Mister Maker is played by Phil Gallagher.

Sequence

Every episode has the same sequence: 1) Has a creative idea and demonstrates the procedure 2) Shape dance and make a picture 3) Minute-make-time 4) Frame-it 5) One more creative idea is demonstrated 6) Clean-up

Mister Maker does something interesting and that gives him an idea of what to make. He collects the required things from the Doodle drawers or an art and craft shop and make it. Then he wakes up the shapes and they do a silly song and dance, followed by a randomly selected shape (circle, triangle, square or rectangle) to form a picture or to find how many (particular shape) are there. Tocky, the cuckoo clock then pops out for Minute Make Time and Mister Maker will make something in a minute, usually completing it just before the timer stops. The 'colour kids' will ask from the window to Mister Maker to guess what they would make with their 'colour costumes'. It is followed by 'Frame It', where Mister Maker makes something 'ever so good' that the viewers will be able to Frame It! Mister Maker will be confronted by something, and that will give him an idea on what to make next. The show then ends showing credits and Mister Maker putting everything back into the art box.

Award nominations

• BAFTA Children's Awards 2009

• nominated for Best Presenter (Phil Gallagher/Mister Maker)^[5]

External links

Official website

References

1. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/mistermaker/
2. ^ ^{a b} "Mister Maker gets more". Broadcast (Emap). 18 March 2008. http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/multi-platform/news/mister-maker-gets-more/953678.article. Retrieved 22 February 2010. 
3. ^ http://www.tudiscoverykids.com/programacion/
4. ^ http://www.licensing.biz/company-profiles/32/RDF-Kids
5. ^ "Past Winners and Nominees - Children's - Awards - 2009". BAFTA. http://www.bafta.org/awards/childrens/nominations/?year=2009. Retrieved 17 March 2010.