Roy (TV series)
Roy is an Irish animated children's TV series about Roy O'Brien, an 11-year-old cartoon boy who lives in a real family. The show uses a mockumentary style, mixing animation with live-action, and follows his adventures as he starts at a new school in a Dublin suburb.
It aired from July 1, 2009, to April 7, 2015, on TRTÉ in Ireland, CBBC in the United Kingdom, and ABC3 in Australia.
The series is based on the short film Badly Drawn Roy, and was created with support from the Irish Film Board, RTÉ, and the Arts Council of Ireland. CBBC commissioned the TV series, with production funded by RTÉ and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. JAM Media produced it.
Roy’s animation is hand-drawn in Flash, with compositing and effects done in Adobe After Effects. A second season aired in early 2012, and the show ran for four seasons with a total of 52 episodes, each about 22 minutes long. In 2012, Roy won the Children's BAFTA Drama Award.
Two spin-offs followed: Little Roy (2016–2017), about a five-year-old Roy on imaginative adventures, aired on CBBC and CBeebies; and The Roy Files (2015–16), which follows Roy’s life as he turns his homework into a scrapbook about his four seasons.
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