Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese
Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese (French: Boy Girl, etc.) is an animated television series based on an original concept by Jeff Harter and Cloudco Entertainment, and directed by Jérémy Guiter[1] for Season 1 and Matthieu Giner[1] for Season 2. The series is an American-French-Irish co-production between Cloudco Entertainment, WatchNext Media, and Kavaleer Productions,[3] and produced with the participation of the BBC, Gulli (Series 1-2), RTÉ, Canal J (Series 1-2), De Agostini Editore S.p.A.,[4] Groupe M6 (Series 3-present), Super RTL (Series 3-present) and Disney Channel France (Series 3-present). The show originally premiered in the United Kingdom on CBBC on October 31, 2019.
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| Genre | Animation Comedy Surreal comedy Adventure |
| Based on | Original concept by Jeff Harter and Cloudco Entertainment |
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| Opening theme | "Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese" Theme (performed by Kaycie Chase and Daniel Walker) |
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| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 156 (list of episodes) |
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| Producers | Léan Duffy (Line, Season 2) |
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| Running time | 11 minutes[1] |
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| Network | Gulli (France) Canal J (France) Disney Channel (France series 3-present) RTÉ2 (Ireland) RTÉjr (Ireland) Super RTL (Germany series 3-present) DeA Kids (Italy) |
| Release | 31 October 2019 – present |
The show centers around a boy, a girl, a dog, a cat, a mouse, and a piece of cheese, all respectively named after what they are, who live together. The second season premiered in January 2022,[5][2] followed by the third in November 2023.[6]
Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese was nominated in the 'Best Animated Kids Series 6+' and 'Best Music' categories at the Irish Animation Awards in 2021, with Baljeet Rai and Henry Gifford nominated for the 'Best Writer' award for the episode Neighborhood Watchdog.[7]
Characters edit
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Main edit
- Boy (voiced by Justin Michael) is an anxious and expressive teenage boy. He is the oldest and tries to be the most mature of the group, but finds himself at odds with his unique siblings. He also likes bobbleheads and hanging out with his five other siblings.
- Girl (voiced by Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld) is a rambunctious and rebellious teenage girl. She is close to Boy, but challenges his authority. She is rather apathetic, usually being seen on her phone. She enjoys cosplaying as her favorite comic book characters.
- Dog (voiced by Justin Anselmi) is a male German Shepherd/Jack Russell Terrier mix, according to concept art. He is athletic and active, with a slight streak of immaturity. As he is very obedient, he often has trouble refusing orders, especially from Boy.
- Cat (voiced by Erica Schroeder) is a female Turkish van who behaves bizarrely and possesses unique abilities. Apart from the episode "Confession Cat", she rarely speaks.
- Mouse (voiced by Abe Goldfarb) is a male stuffed mouse. He is intelligent and rational, but often makes really crazy and irrational machines as ways to solve problems.
- Cheese (voiced by Erica Schroeder) is a female anthropomorphic piece of limburger cheese. She is very dramatic and is a diva who enjoys singing, throwing parties and writing fantasy novels.
Many episodes feature minor or one-time characters with voices provided by H.D. Quinn, Laurie Hymes, Samantha Cooper, Ryan Nicolls, Samara Naeymi, Cristina Pitter and Serra Hirsch. Theresa Buchheister was the sole voice director for the English language cast in season 1; Harry Chaskin began directing in season 2.
- The Smith twins (Stevie and Suzie) are the families enemies as they are competitive and cheat they think that they are superior to the family and can be seen doing obscenely mean things to the main characters.
Episodes edit
Production edit
Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese is produced by Cloudco Entertainment in the United States, WatchNext Media in France, and Kavaleer Productions in Ireland. The series is aimed towards children between the ages of 6 and 12. Sophie Yates from Bulldog Licensing explained that Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese brings together today's kids and tweens, and tackles the topic of blended families with humor and fun.
The series was known to have been in production since 2006,[8] and was intended to be made for Cartoon Network. In 2011, Cloudco first filed a trademark for its title.[9] Originally it was to be produced by Cloudco Entertainment along with Mercury Filmworks in Canada, as per an agreement by the Writers' Guild of Canada.[10][11] The trademark expired in 2014 and was renewed, with Disney XD and Teletoon as the networks intending to air the series as of 2015, but it expired again in 2017.[12]
The first season premiered on October 31, 2019, the second on January 3, 2022,[13] and the third on November 20, 2023.[14][15]
Broadcast edit
Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese premiered on CBBC in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2019,[16] and daily episode premieres continued from 19 November. The show is also streaming on Netflix in certain regions.[citation needed]
On 6 January 2020, the series initially premiered on Family Channel in Canada, but was moved to Family CHRGD in the fall of 2021.[17] On 15 June, the second part of series 1 premiered on CBBC in the United Kingdom. It premiered in France on Gulli[18] on 23 March and on Canal J[19] on 1 January 2021. Episodes of the series are broadcast on some international channels of Disney Channel (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland and CEE), its sister channel Disney XD[20] and Cartoon Network (Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia).
On February 15, 2021, this series was broadcast for the first time in Germany on the channels Super RTL and TOGGO plus. On 12 June, Finnish channel Yle TV2 began broadcasting the series during the "Galaxi" programming block[21] and as of 9 July 2021, SIC K has been broadcasting the series dubbed into European Portuguese.[22]
In April 2022, HBO Max Latinoamérica added the series to their platform for broadcast across Latin America, with a Spanish-language dub,[23] along with a Brazilian Portuguese dub in addition to the Latin American Spanish dub.
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese | Screen Ireland". www.screenireland.ie. 16 April 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Zahed, Ramin (13 June 2019). "Gulli Orders Second Helping of Cloudco's 'Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese'".
- ^ a b c d . 11 February 2019. Archived from the original on 4 November 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
- ^ "Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese | Screen Ireland". www.screenireland.ie. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
- ^ "Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese' Gets S2 Greenlight". Animation Magazine. 22 January 2021. from the original on 25 September 2020.
- ^ Milligan, Mercedes (28 July 2022). "Cloudco Gives Greenlight to 'Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese' S3". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
- ^ "Irish Animation Awards Nominees Announced As Event Goes Virtual". Irish Animation Awards. Animation Ireland. 14 April 2021. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
- ^ "Jeff Harter | LinkedIn".
- ^ "BOY GIRL DOG CAT MOUSE CHEESE Trademark - Serial Number 85210818 :: Justia Trademarks".
- ^ https://www.writersguildofcanada.com/sites/default/files/agreement/CMPA%202010%20to%202011%20Animation%20Ap%2011,%202014.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ https://negotech.labour.gc.ca/eng/agreements/10/1094008a.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "BOY GIRL DOG CAT MOUSE CHEESE Trademark of CLOUDCO, INC. Serial Number: 86321062 :: Trademarkia Trademarks".
- ^ "BoyGirlDogCatMouseCheese - Europa Creativa MEDIA Desk Andalucía". January 2019.
- ^ "BBC Children's announce a raft of new commissions for children and families across the UK".
- ^ . Archived from the original on 13 November 2023. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
- ^ Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese [permanent dead link] Teleboy, 31 October 2019
- ^ "Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese". Family.ca. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
- ^ Gulli. "Boy Girl etc. Gulli". gulli.fr. from the original on 8 June 2020.
- ^ Canal J. "Canal J est en clair sur Free". canalj.fr. from the original on 7 January 2021.
- ^ "TV Gids - Disney XD". Disney TV Nederland (in Dutch). Retrieved 11 December 2022.
- ^ "Poika, tyttö, koira, kissa, hiiri ja juusto".
- ^ "SIC K". Facebook.
- ^ HBO Max Latinoamérica [@HBOMaxLA] (2 April 2022). "Por fin terminó marzo 🙌 y estos son todos los estrenos que vienen para abril 👀" (Tweet) – via Twitter.