Tinga Tinga Tales

Tinga Tinga Tales
Tinga Tinga Tales logo
Genre	Children's Television
Format	Animated television series
Starring	Lenny Henry
Voices of	Eugine Muchiri Shaun Parkes Lorelai King Lenny Henry
Opening theme	"Tinga Tinga Tinga"
Country of origin	United Kingdom United States
Language(s)	English
Production company(s)	Tiger Aspect Productions Classic Media Disney Junior Originals
Broadcast
Original channel	CBeebies, Disney Junior, EBS
Original run	2011 – present

Tinga Tinga Tales is a Kenyan/British 78 episodes children's series based on African folk tales and aimed at 4- to 6-year olds. It was commissioned by the BBC for its CBeebies channel, and by Disney Channel for its Disney Junior block. Named after the Tingatinga art from Tanzania, it was made in Kenya by a studio of about 50 people.^{[citation needed]}

The series was first developed by Claudia Lloyd, head of animation at Tiger Aspect, while travelling through Africa. The first three episodes premiered on the BBC website in early February 2010. The distribution rights have been bought by Entertainment Rights.

Edward Saidi Tingatinga who started to paint in 1968 and later accepted 6 relatives as apprentices. After his sudden death in 1972 in 1976 followers of E.S. Tingatinga registered the "Tingatinga Paintings Partnership" in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania. Till today this organization can be found at BRELA, the Tanzanian Business Registration and Licensing Agency [1]. The successor of this organization of some painters is the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society (TACS).

Channels

Country	Channel
United States	Playhouse Disney
United Kingdom	CBeebies
France	France 5
Australia	ABC1, ABC2, ABC3 and ABC Kids
Ireland	RTÉ Two

Source

• The Guardian
• Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society
• Africa Animation in 'Tinga Tinga Tales' at AnimationInsider.net
• Series 1 Listing [2]
• Series 2 Listing [3]