Unlike the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon multi-cam sitcoms that have dominated kids’ TV for decades, newer streaming series like Apple TV+’s “Puppy Place” and “Lovely Little Farm” function more like family dramedies.
” function more like family dramedies. Avoiding that type of slapstick humor and over-accessorized costumes and sets, these series opt for a more naturalistic approach, oftentimes with serialized storytelling.
Billy Macqueen, co-creator of “Lovely Little Farm,” says: “We’ve always thought it’s important to deliver primetime standard drama to 6 and 7-year-olds. If you can deliver it to the quality that they deserve, and adults will watch with them, it becomes a family show.” Aside from its stars — newcomers Levi Howden and Kassidi Roberts — “Lovely Little Farm” combines eight real pygmy goats and 12 chickens with CGI-generated animal characters like Al Alpaca and Quackety Duck Duck. Since all the U.K. studios were full, the team built a set from scratch in a real-life valley, where they worked with the Greens Team to turn a bare landscape into infinite horizons and “an entire world full of lavender fields and a farmhouse.
Of “Puppy Place,” Green says: “We want these shows to look like mini movies. It’s all very real, and that was a big mandate from Apple. The kids’ rooms look like real kids’ rooms, the homes are real, the clothes are real.”
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