Pocoyo

Not to be confused with PO Coyo.

Pocoyo
Genre
Created by
  • David Cantolla
  • Luis Gallego
  • Guillermo Garcia
  • Colman Lopez
Developed byAndy Yerkes
Written by
  • Guillermo García Carsí
  • Andy Yerkes (series 1)
  • Ken Scarborough (series 2)
Directed by
  • Guillermo García Carsí
  • David Cantolla
  • Alfonso Rodriguez
Narrated by
  • Stephen Fry (English, series 1–2)
  • José María del Río (Castilian Spanish)
  • Stephen Hughes (English, series 3–present)
Theme music composerDaniel Heredero
Country of origin
Original languages
  • English (series 1-2)
  • Spanish (series 3–present)
No. of series5
No. of episodes277
Production
Executive producers
  • Kathryn Hart
  • Anne Brogan
  • Jonathan Doyle
Producers
  • Carolina Matas
  • Pilar Cubría
EditorCatherine Williams
Running time
  • 7 minutes
  • 9 minutes (Crazy Inventions)
  • 10-11 minutes (Easter Eggs, Pocoyo and Nina’s Terror Show and Pocoyo and the Haunted House)
  • 17 minutes (Pocoyo’s Christmas Carol)
Production companies
Original release
Network
Release10 May 2005 (2005-05-10) –
present
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Pocoyo (Pocoyó in Spanish and stylised as POCOYO) is an animated interactive preschool comedy television series created by David Cantolla, Luis Gallego, and Guillermo García Carsí, and is produced by the Spanish animation company Zinkia Entertainment, with the first two series were co-productions with Granada Kids, and the first series was a co-production of Cosgrove Hall Films, both in the United Kingdom.

Four series have been produced, each consisting of 52 seven-minute episodes.[1] English actor and comedian Stephen Fry narrates the English-language version[2][3] of the first two series of the show, while Stephen Hughes narrates the third series, called Let's Go Pocoyo, and the fourth series. José María del Río narrates the Castilian Spanish version of the show. In 2009, a new spin-off show called Pocoyo World was created.

On July 2022, the fifth series has been greenlit to commemorate the show's 20th anniversary which was supposed to release in mid-2023, but was delayed for a 2024 release. It will feature significant changes for the characters designs and will feature more new characters such as Pocoyo's little sister, Pocoyina.[4] Similar to the series 4 episode "Dragon Island", five of the episodes will be mixed into live action.[5]

In 2023, the franchise was acquired by Animaj.[6] As then, the series was renewed for a sixth series which will release in 2026. A third feature film was announced and would be releasing in 2028. The series was then renewed for a seventh series ahead of fifth and sixth series premiere which will release around 2029 and 2030.

  1. ^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 242. ISBN 9781476672939.
  2. ^ "Let's Go, Pocoyo". IMDb. 22 November 2019. Archived from the original on 9 September 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  3. ^ "Umbrella!". pocoyo.com. Zinkia Entertainment, S.A. 25 May 2018. Archived from the original on 12 August 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  4. ^ "Preschool hit Pocoyo gears up for season five". Archived from the original on 30 October 2022. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  5. ^ "Zinkia: We are working on the fifth season of Pocoyó and on two new IPs". 27 July 2022. Archived from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  6. ^ Bharanidharan, Sadhana (20 September 2023). "Animaj acquires preschool franchise Pocoyo". Kidscreen. Retrieved 23 September 2023.