BBC announces it is bringing back ‘Teletubbies’

The BBC has announced it is bringing back Teletubbies.

The much-loved children’s show first aired in 1997 and quickly became a smash hit worldwide. It even yielded a hit single in the form of 1997’s Teletubbies Say ‘Eh-oh!’, which reached Number One and sold over a million copies in the UK.

Now the BBC’s children’s channel CBeebies has ordered 60 new episodes of Teletubbies – 13 years after the last episodes were made in 2001.

Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa Laa and Po will all be back for the new live-action series, and production company DHX Media says they will embark on their adventures on a new set which will be “visually enhanced” using CGI.

Explaining her decision to revive the show, CBeebies controller Kay Benbow said in a press release:  “Now is the right time to create new episodes of this much-loved, iconic show for the current CBeebies audience. I’m sure they will engage with and delight in the activities of Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa Laa and Po, in the same way that children and parents did when they first appeared on our screens.”

During the show’s original run, some critics accused Teletubbies of “promoting” homosexuality because Tinky Winky, a male character, could often be seen carrying a handbag, and also had a triangle on his head – which was supposedly a representation of the gay pride symbol.

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