Beep & Mort (season 2)

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Windmill Pictures, ABC Australia

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From the globally recognised ABC Children’s commissioning team, Beep & Mort is a charming and otherworldly mixed media series for kids. From Windmill Pictures, it is based on Windmill Theatre Company’s award-winning theatre show, Beep.

Using live-action puppetry, this magical pre-school series tells the tale of two best friends from different worlds, who solve their daily dilemmas and unexpected challenges through invention, play, music and adventure.

Featuring authentic stories with emotional impact and fun, relatable characters, Beep & Mort explores the ways the organic and the technological can work together – encouraging critical thinking in, and problem solving by, its young audiences.

A vivid world full of friendship and fun for young audiences, the tone of Beep & Mort is heartfelt and warm with a unique offbeat brand of humour. Narratively, stories possess an almost picture book-style quality, capable of exploring profoundly human moments with a lightness of touch.

The first season delivered wonderful ratings:
- ABC Kids Performance: Audiences in Australia are watching on both linear and BVOD platforms; episodes deliver a reach in excess of a million (@ February 2024)
- WildBrain Performance: Ranks in the Top 10 Kids Programs on the Family Jr channel in Canada (@ February 2024)
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…so much so that all clients who had acquired the first season also acquired the second; Season 2 has now been acquired by broadcasters and streamers in the US and Canada, UK and Ireland, New Zealand, Middle East and North Africa, with more currently being finalised (including in Japan).

Going from strength to strength, the Windmill Pictures team significantly evolved the show’s creative vision and production methodologies in Season 2 – delivering
energetic, entertaining new episodes with more adventure, action & comedy, enhanced production values, and featuring new stories & characters.

Season 2 also commanded many nominations and awards (including for screenwriting) and notably won the SPA (Screen Producers Australia) Awards 2024: Animated Production of the Year.

‘An otherworldly treat anchored by gorgeous textures you want to touch and a gentle sense of inquiry and problem-solving’
– The Sydney Morning Herald

‘There’s something so nourishing about a kids’ show that isn’t a cartoon – and doesn’t involve a hyperactive adult’
– The Sunday Age