Horrid Henry (TV series)

Horrid Henry is a British children's animated sitcom, based on the popular book series of the same name by Francesca Simon. It is produced by Novel Entertainment, broadcast from 31 October 2006 on ITV. It is currently being aired on Nicktoons, Nickelodeon and streams on Netflix in the United Kingdom since 28 May 2018.
Production.
The series producer is Lucinda Whiteley and the animation director is Dave Unwin. The animation style differs from the Tony Ross illustrations in the books. The series has broadcast in more than a 90 countries, including France, US, Germany, South Africa, India, Pakistan, South Korea, Russia and the Philippines.
The incidental music is composed by Lester Barnes, and additional songs are composed by Lockdown Media. Three series were aired, with 52 episodes each. The fourth series started on 11 October 2014 with another 52 episodes making it 208 in total.
On 10 May 2018, Nickelodeon UK announced they had acquired the broadcast rights to all the seasons of the show, and it premiered on 28 May 2018 on Nicktoons in the UK and Ireland with a special "Horrid Half Term". On the same day, Novel Entertainment ordered 42 new episodes slated to start airing in early 2019. The final episode of season 5 aired on 17 May 2019. Series 5 took the episode count to 250 in total.
Horrid Henry was broadcast on Nicktoons UK in 2018 and quickly became the channel's most popular show. In 2019 the series was the number three most watched animation across all the UK's commercial TV services.
CITV lost the rights to the series in January 2019, just a few months before the fifth series ended in May that year.
Beginning in 2020, with the successful release of the "Horrid Henry's Wild Weekend" special, Novel Entertainment announced they would be producing a series of one-hour specials for Netflix, beginning with "Horrid Henry's Gross Day Out".
International broadcast.
In the United States, the series first aired on This TV's Cookie Jar Toons block until the block's closure in 2013, it has since been exclusively released on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, where it is currently available. In Africa, the series has previously aired on M-Net and Disney XD, as of now, it currently airs on Nicktoons. In 2014, Cartoon Network and Boomerang acquired the series for Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, India, South-East Asia, South Korea and Taiwan. In the MENA region, it is being aired on Jeem TV. In 2018, the series premiered in Canada on Toon-A-Vision.
In Wales, the series was dubbed in Welsh and aired on children's block "Stwnsh" on S4C and was titled "Henri Helynt". In France, the series was dubbed into French under the title "Lucas la Cata" and aired on Disney Channel.
Soundtrack.
In November 2009, the series produced one music album, "Horrid Henry's Most Horrid Album". In December 2019, Horrid Happy Christmas was released on Spotify and iTunes. "Horrid Henry's Horrid Album" was released on 14 January 2020. New tracks including "My Song, Born To Be Rude, Wanna Be Me" and "Too Cool For School" featured on the Vue Cinema special and will be released on the album.
Horrid Henry: Unlocked!
In April 2020, it was revealed that a podcast entitled "Horrid Henry: Unlocked!" would be broadcast on Spotify and iTunes every Sunday. Presented by Lizzie Waterworth (as herself and Henry), and children's radio presenter "Silly" Sean Thorne, the series features a variety of fun and games, as well as short stories narrated by the title character based on episodes from the TV series. Episodes run from 20 to 50 minutes. On 12 July 2020, it was revealed that the podcast would have a second series during the Autumn, however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the series was postponed until a later date.
Series 1 (2020).
Series one began on 26 April 2020 and ended on 12 July 2020. The final episode was a double length bonus, due to the upcoming end of term at the end of July; during the episode, it was hinted that a new series of "Unlocked!" would return sometime in September, and well as a variety of "Horrid Henry" media would be coming out over the summer holidays.