Walter and Tandoori
| Walter and Tandoori | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Animated series |
| Created by | Sylvain Viau |
| Directed by | Daniel Decelles Thomas LaPierre |
| Voices of | Rick Jones |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 104[1] |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Sylvain Viau |
| Producer | Sylvain Viau |
| Running time | 11 minutes |
| Production companies | Image Entertainment Corporation Oasis Entertainment |
| Original release | |
| Network | TV5 Québec Canada Ici Radio-Canada Télé Télé-Québec Vrak.TV |
| Release | 2005 – 2010 |
| Related | |
| Walter's Christmas (2011 movie based on TV show) | |
Walter and Tandoori (also known as Walter or Walter's World) is a Canadian animated children’s series created by Sylvain Viau and by Image Entertainment Corporation.[2] The show has 104 episodes running from 2009-2010[3]
Plot[change | change source]
The series centres on Walter, an inventor and fix-it specialist, and his friend Tandoori, a hyperactive chicken, who live together in the village of Trois-Montagnes (in the French version) or Hart's Landing (in the English version), and embark on various adventures designed to teach children about the environment and ecology [4]
Characters[change | change source]
- Walter: Walter is a likeable man with a youthful temperament. He loves to play, acts on instinct, and has child-like control of his impulses.
- Tandoori Walter’s sidekick, Tandoori is a hyper-active chicken with an Indian accent that often gets the pair into crazy predicaments.
Walter and Tandoori's Christmas[change | change source]
Main Article: Walter & Tandoori's Christmas
A 2011 Christmas themed Thriectal Production running of 85 Minutes in November 2011[5] The Movie is Image Entertainment Corporation Inc. First Film and Thriectal Film. The Film is distributed by Alivance Film. The film also received a limited theatrical release outside of Canada, including a screening at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur in September 2012 and a brief run in Los Angeles in December of that year in an unsuccessful attempt to garner an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.
Episodes[change | change source]
Main Article: List of Walter & Tandoori Episodes
Walter & Tandoori series produced a number of 104 episodes that were each 13 minutes long produced by Image Entertainmet Corporation Inc..
Broadcast[change | change source]
The series has since aired on a number of other broadcast networks, including Ici Radio-Canada Télé,[6] Télé-Québec, Vrak.TV[6] and Cartoon Network Latin America.[7]
Awards[change | change source]
The Series won a Prix Gémeaux for Best Animated Program or Series in 2011.[8]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "Image ICC – Image Communication Conseil".
- ↑ "Image Corporation Entertainement". image-cie.com.
- ↑ "Series - Walter & Tandoori". waltertandoori.com. Archived from the original on 2014-07-03. Retrieved 2014-06-15.
- ↑ "Walter et Tandoori: rêver d'un Noël vert". Métro.
- ↑ "Noël de Walter et Tandoori, Le – Film de Sylvain Viau". Films du Québec.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Emond-Ferrat, Jessica (November 10, 2011). "Walter et Tandoori: rêver d'un Noël vert". Métro Montréal. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
- ↑ "Going Cross-media with an Environmental Project in Harmony"[permanent dead link]. Toon Boom.
- ↑ "Gagnants aux prix Gémeaux 2011" Archived 2014-03-06 at the Wayback Machine. Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, 2011.