Cosgrove Hall Films on brink of closure

[Pip Madeley]

Cosgrove Hall on the brink

Bloody ITV Apparently this has been on the cards, but they've made some great shows over the years, especially:



Shame.

[Rob McCow]

Starring Richard E Grant.

It's a real shame, but their time seems to be long past.

[Andrew Curnow]

They've not done anything of real note for a long time have they? Unless you count Scream of the Shalka...

[SiHart]

One of the icons of my childhood from Chorlton and the Wheelies to Jamie and the Magic Torch through Dangermouse to Duckulap they did some truly great work. It'd be sad if they fold, but as Andrew says, what have they done recently? Alas you cannot just trade on the past.

Si xx

[WhiteCrowNZ]

Ironically I was thinking (and still may) of starting a thread about theme tunes which stick to you like crazy glue. I absolutely love the theme tune to Chorlton and the Wheelies and find myself often singing it as I'm cycling for some reason.

[shada pavlova]

They've not done anything of real note for a long time have they? Unless you count Scream of the Shalka...

Unless the BBC steps in and commissions them to reanimate all the missing episodes, it really does look like the end.

[WhiteCrowNZ]

Unless the BBC steps in and commissions them to reanimate all the missing episodes, it really does look like the end.

I don't think that's going to happen.

I know I really enjoyed the work they did on Invasion. I know it's not the original work, but it's "the next best thing", and helped bring to life something which otherwise is lost forever. I'm quite amazed there do seem to be a lot of people who hated them.

[Captain Tancredi]

If you read the Broadcast article, the remaining staff members were executives rather than animators so any other animation work, even if done by the same people, presumably wouldn't be under the Cosgrove Hall name.