Draft:Colourblocks

Colourblocks
Genre	Educational Preschool
Created by	Joe Elliot David Bowman
Written by	Ian Carney
Directed by	Francesca Adams (series director) Dan Cripps (animation director)
Voices of	Claire Morgan Will Jennings Bayo Gbadamosi Harriet Carmichael Kayi Ushe Akiya Henry David Holt Beth Chalmers Dominique Moore
Composer	Ben Lee-Delisle
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	41
Production
Production companies	Blue Zoo Alphablocks Ltd
Original release
Network	CBeebies
Release	12 September 2022 (2022-09-12) – 29 February 2024 (2024-02-29)
Related
Alphablocks Numberblocks

Colourblocks is a British animated television series for preschoolers that debuted on CBeebies on 12 September 2022. The programme was created by Joe Elliot and David Bowman and produced by Alphablocks Ltd with Blue Zoo. It was commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation. The show follows the Colourblocks, characters made of customised shapes (even though Black, White, Grey, Light Grey, Dark Grey, and Cyan's shape aren't customised) who represent colours. They live in a fictional planet called Colourland and embark on adventures relating to shape and colour concepts.

Premise

Colourblocks follow the adventures of blocks in Colourland, each one named after a colour. They appear to have a specific shape and colour. When one Colourblock goes to the side of another: they transform into (or mix into) a different Colourblock to make a new colour. Many of the Colourblocks are associated with their colours.

Development

BBC Studios commissioned Colourblocks as an animated series for children aged 3–6 to be developed by Essex production company Blue Zoo. Created by Joe Elliot and David Bowman, the series was made to give children a deeper understanding of how colours are made and created.

Episodes

Series 1 (2022-2023)

Series 1a

• Red | 101
• Blue | 102
• Yellow | 104
• Red Meets Blue | 103
• Yellow Meets Red and Blue | 105
• Green | 106
• Green Means Go | 107
• Chameleon | 108
• Silly Colouring | 109
• Orange | 110
• Red and Yellow Meet Orange | 111
• Purple | 112
• The Uncoloured Castle | 113
• Purple's Patterns | 114
• Rainbow | 115

Series 1b

• Little Red Riding Hood (Red Riding Hood) | 117
• Pick a Partner (Similar and Opposite) | 118
• Black and White | 116
• Shades of the Forest (Shades of You) | 119
• Lighter and Darker | 120
• Pink | 123
• Brown | 124
• Many Mixes Make Brown | 125
• The Printing Crew (Cyan and Magenta) | 121
• Grey | 122
• Return of the Printing Crew | 126
• The Sorting Express | 127
• Choosing Colours | 128
• Colour Wheels | 129
• It's a Colourful World | 130

Series 2 (2024)

• The Mixing Factory | 201
• A Plate Of Many Colours
• Name That Colour
• Colouring a Rainbow
• Printing Crew to the Rescue
• Deep Blue and Sky Blue
• Orange's Gym
• Purple's Mural Makeover
• Lime
• Return of the Sorting Express
• Fun with Colours
• It's a Grey Day
• Red's Recolouring Tour
• A Colourful Journey

Specials

• It's a Colourful Christmas | 001

Cast

• Claire Morgan (as Red and Orange)
• Will Jennings (as Yellow, Purple, and Magenta)
• Bayo Gbadamosi (as Blue)
• Harriet Carmichael (as Green, Indigo, Violet, Black, White, Brown, Grey, Light Grey, and Dark Grey)
• Kayi Ushe (as Pink)
• Akiya Henry (as Cyan)
• Beth Chalmers (as Deep Blue)
• David Holt (as Sky Blue)
• Dominique Moore (as Lime)

Characters

Red, a female teardrop-triangular pyramid-shaped object who is always excited. She is voiced by Claire Morgan.

Blue, a male frustum-like cube, who is chill. He is the only character voiced by Bayo Gbadamosi.

Yellow, a male hemisphere, who is happy and joyful. He loves rubber ducks and lemonade, and is voiced by Will Jennings.

Green, a female half gumdrop-shaped object who loves life and nature, presumably resembling the World Wide Fund for Nature. She is voiced by Harriet Carmichael.

Orange, a female teardrop-shaped object who uses energy than the rest of the Colourblocks. Like Red, she is voiced by Claire Morgan.

Purple, a male trapezoid-like cuboid who is known as the king of Colourland. He has a mole under his left eye. Like Yellow, he is voiced by Will Jennings.

Indigo and Violet, characters that look similar to Blue and Purple, but Indigo is a bit more purple and Violet is female and a bit more blue. They both wore helmets and boots, but lack their attires in the Meet the Colourblocks mobile app. Both of them are voiced by Harriet Charmicheal. Their attires can be seen separate from them on the Meet the Colourblocks mobile app, by colouring them.

Black, White, Grey, Light Grey, and Dark Grey, non-speaking spheres with eyes and tiny paws. They lack visible eyebrows, mouths, and legs. Grey, Light Grey, and Dark Grey only appear on two episodes, the former's namesake episode and "It's a Colourful World". Like Green and Brown, they are voiced by Harriet Carmichael.

Pink, the same as Red, but male, coloured pink, and a face and eyes that look similar to Yellow's. His personality is a very funny guy.. He is the voiced by Kayi Ushe and the only one to be voiced by him so far..

Brown, the same as Orange, but coloured brown, isn't that reliant on energy, and eyebrows with a diferent thickness. She wears a brown hat and boots. She is an adventurer that likes to explore colours. Like Green, Black, Dark Grey, Grey, Light Grey, and White, she is voiced by Harriet Carmichael.

Cyan, the same as Blue, but female, with straight cube, and coloured cyan. She wears a helmet and goggles, but lacks her attire in the Meet the Colourblocks mobile app and the episode "Colour Wheels". She is voiced by Akiya Henry.

Magenta, the same as Red, but male, with straight triangular pyramid, and coloured magenta. He wears a helmet and goggles, but lacks his attire in the Meet the Colourblocks mobile app and the episode "Colour Wheels". Like Yellow and Purple, he is voiced by Will Jennings.

Lime, the same as Green, but more shorter and female. She wears her clothing attire, which is a lime band with a white squiggle on her arms and legs. She also has a star, and dark green, thick eyebrows.

Deep Blue and Sky Blue are Blue's shade relatives, which they both have the same shape as him. Both of them wear lifevests and helmets/hats on, Sky Blue has goggles, a moustache, a cloud on his helmet, and thin eyebrows, while Deep Blue has thicker eyebrows.

List of songs

• We're Mixing It Up For You - All episodes
• Red Red Ready! - Red, Chameleon
• A Cool, Blue Day - Blue
• Hello, I'm Yellow! - Yellow
• Green Is Life! - Green, Shades of the Forest
• Orangey Energy - Orange
• Purple Is The Colour Of Kings - Purple, Purple's Mural Ref
• Rainbow Chant - Rainbow
• Pick a Partner - Pick a Partner
• Pink is for Everyone - Pink
• My Name Is Brown - Brown
• It's A Colourful World - It's a Colourful World
• It's A Colourful Christmas - It's a Colourful Christmas
• Stir Them Round - The Mixing Factory
• Colouring a Rainbow - Colouring a Rainbow
• Woo, Woo, Woo! - Printing Crew to the Rescue
• It's Lime Time - Lime, Return of the Sorting Express

Trivia

• It is the only Blocks Universe programme out of the three to not premiere its first episode of the first series on the fourth Monday of January on the BBC, instead premiering on the second Monday of September, which is the month where most of the show's target audience had already just gone back to school a week prior. The sixteenth episode premiered on the fourth Monday of January like Alphablocks and Numberblocks.

External links

• Official website
• Colourblocks at BBC Online
• YouTube channel

Notes

This page will be placed in the following categories if it is moved to the article namespace.

Categories:

• BBC children's television shows
• 2022 British television series debuts
• 2020s British children's television series
• British computer-animated television series
• British English-language television shows
• British preschool education television series