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    BBC Studios Kids & Family are delighted to announce that a brand new series of multi-award winning hit, Hey Duggee, will premiere on CBeebies and BBC iPlayer from Monday 9th September and will include the show’s landmark 200th episode. Series 5 will launch with nine brand-new episodes launching this September and a further 10 being released in early 2025.

    The new episodes of the much-loved show, made by Studio AKA with BBC Studios Kids & Family and CBeebies, will air exclusively on CBeebies every weekday at 07.05am from September 9th. The 200th episode, ‘The Talent Badge’, will go out on 11th September, with episodes landing on BBC iPlayer every Monday.

    Packed full of fun adventures, imagination, gentle humour and learning through doing, the series will include a few Hey Duggee style pop-culture references which are bound to amuse fans of all ages!

    Hey Duggee fans have already had a taste of the new series with ‘The Carrot Badge’ episode broadcast earlier this summer, which was timed to coincide with the summer solstice and the festival season.

    New exciting titles include:

    • The Face Painting Badge
    • The Transport Badge
    • The Talent Badge
    • The Mime Badge
    • The Why Badge
    • The Sibling Badge
    • The Monster Badge
    • The Diary Badge
    • The Metal Detector Badge

    Hey Duggee is a fun, inclusive and educational series for pre-schoolers, narrated by comedian and presenter Alexander Armstrong. The series also feature Sander Jones as the voice of Duggee. Each episode features members of the Squirrel Club exploring, learning and overcoming challenges to earn a new Badge from Duggee – making new friends along the way.

    Sander Jones, Director and Writer at Studio AKA, says: “It’s a great honour for us to have created over 200 episodes to date! Hey Duggee resonates with fans of all ages and I am incredibly proud of this new series. Duggee and the Squirrels are back with more exciting, engaging and fun episodes.”

    Since launching in 2014, Hey Duggee has become a seven-time BAFTA and international Emmy award-winning hit. It was the most streamed CBeebies show on BBC iPlayer in 2022, the third year in a row its topped the list. Additionally, Hey Duggee has amassed over 3.1 billion lifetime views on its official YouTube channel and over 1.3 billion streams on BBC iPlayer since launching on the platform in 2014. The series has also been successful in making a leap from screen to stage with the Olivier Award-winning Hey Duggee The Live Theatre Show tour.

    Recently, Hey Duggee and CBeebies teamed up with IDLES and released a new version of the famous Stick Song, available here on YouTube, to celebrate IDLES’ headline gig at Glastonbury Festival. The song was commissioned and produced by CBeebies and is also available on BBC iPlayer.

    Additionally, Hey Duggee is part of CBeebies Rainbow Adventure, a fun-packed immersive theatrical experience for children. The guided interactive experience, which runs at Westfield London Shepherd’s Bush, includes Hey Duggee’s Clubhouse where guests can dance at Duggee’s Disco.

    Hey Duggee is created and produced by Studio AKA with BBC Studios Kids & Family and CBeebies. All episodes of Hey Duggee are available exclusively on BBC iPlayer in the UK.

    About BBC Studios Kids & Family

    BBC Studios Kids & Family is an integral part of the BBC Studios content powerhouse – a commercial subsidiary of the BBC Group which produces, invests and distributes content globally.

    With specialist knowledge of what makes young audiences tick, BBC Studios Kids & Family identifies, nurtures and invests in great projects and turns them into global hits, seamlessly taking content from conception, development and production to franchise management and distribution.

    The division’s multi-genre portfolio includes some of the most exciting and successful franchises in the world with BAFTA and International Emmy winning craft and storytelling, including Bluey, Hey Duggee, Hey Duggee’s Squirrel Club, Deadly Mission Shark, Andy’s Amazing Adventures, Supertato, and Popularity Papers.

    The division’s ever-growing slate also includes Rafi the Wishing Wizard, Stan Can, Peter & The Wolf, and Pickle Storm, as well as established UK hits and iconic shows such as Blue Peter, The Dumping Ground, JoJo & Gran Gran, The Beaker Girls, Lagging and CBeebies: Shakespeare at the Globe.

    Its productions air on channels and leading content platforms around the world including CBeebies, CBBC, Disney, ABC Australia, Tencent China and Nickelodeon.

    (Source: BBC)