Irish Animated Series ROY Receives Two BAFTA Nominations
The Irish animated series ROY has received two BAFTA British Academy Children's Award nominations in the categories of Best Drama and Best Writer.ROY, which was created by Alan Shannon is set in modern day Dublin but tells the story of Ireland's only living animated character born into a live-action family. The award winning 26 part series charts the progress of this 11-year-old boy as he struggles to grow up as a cartoon character in an ordinary environment. Roy's attempts to blend in are complicated by the fact that he can squash and stretch, involuntarily turn blue when sad, green when jealous and produce a flock of twittering birds when he gets a bump on the head. Roy is truly a fish out of water.
The series stars Scott Graham as the voice of Roy alongside Simon Delaney (Zonad) and Cathy Belton (Savage).
ROY aired on CBBC last year and became the 4th most popular programme across all children's digital channels in the UK and became the most popular on the CBBC iPlayer. It was awarded the Best Children's Drama at the Royal Television Society Awards in London earlier this year.
The children's TV drama was produced by Mark Cumberton for Dublin based animation company JAM Media. It originated as a short animation film called Badly Drawn Roy, funded by the Frameworks scheme which is co-financed by the IFB, the Arts Council and RTÉ, before being developed into a television series.
The BAFTA awards ceremony will take place at the London Hilton, Park Lane on Sunday, November 28th.