Quentin Blake's Box of Treasures: Zagazoo


2:20 pm - 2:50 pm, Friday, December 26 on CBBC HD (203)

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Zagazoo
Season 1, Episode 1

Happy couple Bella and George are surprised to receive a strange parcel containing a baby named Zagazoo, who unexpectedly transforms into a series of badly behaved animals including a vulture, an elephant, a warthog and a hairy monster, mirroring the various tricky stages of childhood and testing their parental skills to the limit as they try to adapt to their challenging offspring. Touching and hilarious animation about growing up and the bond of love that keeps a tight family together, with the voices of Adrian Lester and Simon Pegg


HD subtitles repeat 16x9 sign-language audio-description
Cartoons/Puppets Children's/Youth Programmes

Cast & Crew

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Adrian Lester (Narrator)
Simon Pegg (Actor) .. Zagazoo
Gerrit Bekers (Series director)

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Adrian Lester (Narrator)
Born: August 14, 1968 in Birmingham
Best Known For: Playing Mickey in Hustle.
Early-life: Adrian was born in Birmingham on August 14, 1968. His father left the family when Adrian was nine years old, and he was subsequently raised by his mother in the city's Edgbaston district. He has an older brother and a younger half-sister from his mother's second marriage. He became a huge comic-book fan as a child, and still loves reading them today, although he now prefers to call them graphic novels: "It makes me sound older and a bit more mature," he claims.
Career: After deciding to become an actor, Lester attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. On graduating, he began a successful stage career. He made his film debut in 1991's Touch and Die. TV parts and little-seen movies followed, before he landed a lead role in 1998's Primary Colors alongside John Travolta and Emma Thompson. However, despite Lester's first opportunity to shine in such an impressive Hollywood movie, he failed to capitalise on it - though he eventually returned to acting a year later in TV movie Storm Damage. Since then he's enjoyed several successful stage runs, as well as appearances in films Love's Labours Lost (2000), Maybe Baby (2000) and The Day After Tomorrow (2004), but TV's Hustle remains his most famous project to date. He took time out from the show in 2006, but made a triumphant return to the role in 2009 until the series ended in 2012. In 2013, he played the title role in Othello at the National Theatre. He had a recurring role on short-lived American teen drama Red Band Society. In 2016, he starred in TV mini-series Undercover.
Quote: "I am so aware of being pigeonholed. If I stay on one track of work, so many other doors silently close."
Trivia: In 2013, he received an OBE and an honorary degree from the University of Warwick.
Simon Pegg (Actor) .. Zagazoo
Born: February 14, 1970 in Brockworth, Gloucestershire
Best Known For: Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Star Trek.
Early-life: Born Simon John Beckingham in Gloucester on February 14, 1970, to a civil servant and a jazz musician. He took the surname of his stepfather. In 1991, he graduated from Bristol University with a degree in theatre, film and TV - David Walliams was in the year below him. Simon ditched any musical ambitions to follow his alternative dream of becoming a comedian. He started out doing stand-up at various clubs in Bristol before heading for London in 1993.
Career: Pegg quickly gained a fanbase and performed his acclaimed one-man show at major venues in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. His first TV appearance was in 1995's Six Pairs of Pants, followed by Saturday Live and a two-year stint in ITV sitcom Faith in the Future. Other early projects include Big Train and Is It Bill Bailey? He co-wrote cult, award-winning sitcom Spaced with friend Jessica Stevenson. He has since reinforced his standing as one of Britain's leading performers with appearances in Band of Brothers, 24 Hour Party People (2002), Shaun of the Dead (2004), Mission: Impossible III (2006) and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011), Hot Fuzz (2007), Run Fatboy Run (2007), Star Trek (2009) and its sequel Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), Paul (2011) and The World's End (2013).
Quote: "Comedy has got a lot more self-reflexive in the past 15 years. Our lives are so heavily constructed by the media, how could you not talk about it?"
Trivia: He was the drummer in a band when he was 16.
Gerrit Bekers (Series director)

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