We're Going on a Bear Hunt
09:05 am - 09:35 am, Wednesday, December 24 on Channel 4 HD (104)
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About this Broadcast
Animated adventure based on the popular children's bedtime book by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury. Stan, Katie, Rosie, Max and the baby, along with Rufus the dog, all embark on a quest to find some bears. Trekking through whirling snowstorms, muddy bogs and dark forests, the siblings refuse to let anything get in their way. However, when Rosie and Rufus get lost, bear-hunting suddenly doesn't seem quite so much fun after all. Featuring the voices of Olivia Colman, Pam Ferris and Mark Williams as Mum, Grandma and Dad respectively
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Cast & Crew
Olivia Colman
(Actor)
.. Mum
Pam Ferris
(Actor)
.. Grandma
Mark Williams
(Actor)
.. Dad
Michael Rosen
(Actor)
.. Bear/Narrator
Elsie Cavalier
(Actor)
.. Rosie
Edward Osborn Latta
(Actor)
.. Max
Macready Massey
(Actor)
.. Stanley
Heather Shaw
(Actor)
.. Katie
Ruth Fielding
(Producer)
Camilla Deakin
(Producer)
Norton Herrick
(Executive producer)
Helen McAleer
(Executive producer)
Julia Posen
(Executive producer)
Joanna Harrison
(Director)
Robin Shaw
(Director)
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Did You Know..
Olivia Colman
(Actor)
.. Mum
Born:
January 30, 1974
in
Norfolk
Best Known For:
Rev, Peep Show and Broadchurch.
Early-life:
Born Sarah Caroline Colman on January 30, 1974, in Norfolk. She claims she relied on making her fellow pupils laugh at school because she wasn't very academic, but went on to study at Cambridge, where she met future collaborators David Mitchell and Robert Webb. Colman initially intended to become a primary school teacher, but switched to drama and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She hasn't looked back since.
Career:
Colman's first TV work came in the series Bruiser in 2000, and was followed by appearances alongside her old friends David and Robert in The Mitchell and Webb Situation sketch show. She had a brief role in The Office, but it wasn't until Peep Show, Look Around You and Green Wing came along that people started to sit up and take notice. Since then she's featured in Hot Fuzz, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Beautiful People, Doctor Who, Twenty Twelve and Rev. More recently she made the move from comedy to drama in The Iron Lady, the hugely acclaimed Tyrannosaur and Hyde Park on Hudson. In 2013, she starred in the acclaimed ITV drama Broadchurch, which won her a Bafta TV award for Best Actress.
Quote:
"If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before."
Trivia:
She has voiced a number of TV commercials.
Pam Ferris
(Actor)
.. Grandma
Born:
May 11, 1948
in
Hanover, Germany
Best Known For:
Her role as Florence ‘Ma' Larkin in The Darling Buds of May.
Early-life:
Pamela Ann Ferris was born on May 11, 1948 in Hanover, Germany, to Welsh parents Ann and Fred, who were stationed there while her father served in the Royal Air Force. Ferris spent her childhood in the Llanelli area of Wales, after her father became a police officer, with her mother working in her family's bakery business. Pam's family emigrated to New Zealand when she was 13, but she returned to the UK in her early twenties.
Career:
Ferris first made an impact in the 1985 drama series Connie. Other than The Darling Buds of May, she has also appeared in TV shows Hardwicke House, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Paradise Heights, Where the Heart Is, Rosemary & Thyme, Gavin & Stacey and Grandma's House. A "Jill of all trades", Pam has appeared in a number of Royal Court Theatre and Royal National Theatre productions, and in films like Matilda, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men, Nativity!, Telstar, and Malice in Wonderland. In 2012, she began playing Sister Evangelina in Call the Midwife.
Quote:
"The business [acting] has been extraordinarily kind to me. I have no complaints."
Trivia:
In 2014, she was a contestant on The BBC Children in Need Sewing Bee.
Mark Williams
(Actor)
.. Dad
Born:
August 22, 1959
in
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
Best Known For:
The Fast Show
Early-life:
Born in Bromsgrove on August 22, 1959. As a teen he hoped for a career in academia, then read English at Brasenose College, Oxford University where he discovered a love of both acting and writing. He spent three years touring with The Mikron Theatre Company before proving himself a fine comic actor with early roles in Red Dwarf and Alexei Sayle's Stuff.
Career:
Other early TV appearances came in Tumbledown, KYTV, Bottom and The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer. Williams became a famous face thanks to his appearances in The Fast Show, where he played a number of memorable characters. The Canterbury Tales, Gormenghast and Shackleton followed, but it was his role as Arthur Weasley in the Harry Potter franchise that made him recognisable worldwide. He has also appeared in successful films like Stardust and Shakespeare in Love and presented several documentary programmes, such as Mark Williams' Big Bangs.
Quote:
"I'll get me coat."
Trivia:
Away from showbusiness, he is an avid follower of both Aston Villa and Brighton & Hove Albion football clubs.
Michael Rosen
(Actor)
.. Bear/Narrator
Elsie Cavalier
(Actor)
.. Rosie
Edward Osborn Latta
(Actor)
.. Max
Macready Massey
(Actor)
.. Stanley
Heather Shaw
(Actor)
.. Katie
Ruth Fielding
(Producer)
Camilla Deakin
(Producer)
Norton Herrick
(Executive producer)
Helen McAleer
(Executive producer)
Julia Posen
(Executive producer)
Joanna Harrison
(Director)
Robin Shaw
(Director)
