Noddy (TV series) Noddy (TV series) Noddy, also known as The Noddy Shop or Noddy in Toyland (in the United Kingdom and Australia), is a Canadian-American children's television series based on Enid Blyton's children's book series of the same name with stop motion sequences from "Noddy's Toyland Adventures" that aired from August 31, 1998 to February 16, 2000 on PBS in the United States. Following its cancellation, reruns were aired until September 5th, 2004. The series was produced by BBC Worldwide, Catalyst Entertainment and Enid Blyton Ltd. The show starred Sean McCann as Noah Tomten, a former old salt, who now runs an
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