Make Way for Noddy It has a 4.4/10 rating on IMDB and a 6.0 rating on TV.com. Make Way for Noddy Make Way for Noddy is a British-American musical CGI animated series for children, produced by Chorion of the United Kingdom in conjunction with SD Entertainment in the United States. Based on Enid Blyton's Noddy character, it originally aired in twelve minute segments as part of the "Milkshake" programme on Britain's Five, from September 2, 2002 to June 16, 2007. It was repeated until the beginning of 2016 on NBC and PBS Kids Sprout. In 2005, the American version of the series was launched
Noddy (TV interview technique) earliest use of the term recorded by the "Oxford English Dictionary" dates from 1982. It was explained more fully by John Fiske in 1987: "the camera is then turned onto the interviewer who asks some of the questions again and gives a series of "noddies," that is, reaction shots, nods, smiles, or expressions of sympathetic listening. These are then used to disguise later edits in the interviewee's speech... Without the "noddy", the visuals would show an obvious "jump" that would reveal the edit." In the United Kingdom, the term came to public prominence in 2007 when it was revealed that