Bob the Builder (2015 TV series) Bob the Builder (2015 TV series) Bob the Builder is a CGI animated children's television series and a reboot of the British animated television show "Bob the Builder". It was first broadcast in the United States on PBS Kids, beginning on 1 September 2015. After the original show ended in 2012, Mattel bought the "Bob the Builder" franchise for a revamped series which premiered on Channel 5 on 1 September 2015. The series was given a visual overhaul for both the characters and the scenery, with Bob and his team moving to the bustling metropolis of Spring City. The CGI
Stop motion East German television, a children's show that had Cold War propaganda as its primary function. New episodes, minus any propaganda, are still being produced in the now-reunified Germany, making it one of the longest running animated series in the world. In the 1960s, the French animator Serge Danot created the well-known "The Magic Roundabout" (1965) which played for many years on the BBC. Another French/Polish stop-motion animated series was "Colargol" ("Barnaby the Bear" in the UK, "Jeremy" in Canada), by Olga Pouchine and Tadeusz Wilkosz. A British TV series, "Clangers" (1969), became popular on television. The British artists Brian Cosgrove