A Latina reporter looks back on her childhood as a chubby, willful and reluctant Dominican immigrant growing up with her eccentric family in 1980s Miami.
Lockie Leonard is an Australian children's television series adapted from the Lockie Leonard books that first screened on the Nine Network on 19 June 2007. The series was filmed in Albany, Western Australia. A second series was filmed in 2009 and screened in 2010 in Australia, the UK and Ireland.
Lockie Leonard was produced by Goalpost Pictures Australia and is distributed by the Australian Children's Television Foundation. The theme song "Worlds Away" is performed by Jebediah.
Lockie Leonard premiered in the UK on Saturday 27 September 2008, as part of the long running children's Saturday morning programme TMi which airs from 09:00 to 10:30 on BBC Two. It ran for the first 12 episodes then continued to air on CBBC Channel.
The show won the 2008 TV Week Logie Award for Best Children's Series, and star Sean Keenan was nominated for the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent. It won the 2007 AFI award for Best Children's Drama Series. The series was also nominated for the 2007 BAFTA Awards for Best I
Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse is a Canadian animated television show produced by Nelvana. It tells the stories of a young horse named Marvin who is part of a carnival. Among the Executive Producers are Michael Paraskevas and Betty Paraskevas, creators of Maggie and the Ferocious Beast who also created the book that the show is based on. The show first aired on the Treehouse block before moving to just before Tiny Pop. The series also aired on PBS Kids as part of the PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch from 2000 to 2002. It can now be seen in the US on Qubo. It also aired on Teletoon for a brief time.
Some episodes include original songs to help illustrate the theme or accompany montages that carry the story forward.
After years of working in major cities, three siblings from the Wu family return to their hometown. Through life’s challenges and family conflicts, they rediscover the strength of their bond and learn to support one another, rekindling the true meaning of sibling love and unity.
A ruthless producer's pursuit of success shatters his family, igniting romantic and professional rivalries as five siblings navigate love, betrayal, and ambition.
The little green builders from Jim Henson' Fraggle Rock are back in their own show. The show follows four young Doozers, as they build and invent to solve problems.
With different characters you can find in any group of friends, the show entertains teenagers and tells us about the main events in their lives: the development of their personalities, their crushes, their finances, the sports competitions and their academic performance.
The series focuses on the search of a young woman for her lost son. After discovering that her child may be living at an orphanage, she goes there under the alter ego of a humorous and magical nanny figure, touching and changing their lives.
Full-time mother Hong Nga-yau and her husband Yau Tsoi-shan have a two-year-old daughter called Yau Yat-tung. The family are under constant pressure as they and Nga-yau’s parents Hong Lok and Fong Chor-kiu are living under the same roof. Tsoi-shan covertly plots to break free from Chor-kiu’s control. But his parents Yau Tai-long and Kam Mei-foon keep making trouble, causing Tsoi-shan to be always in the wrong. There is constant conflict between Nga-yau and Tsoi-shan as the couple cannot agree on how to split parenting duties. Nga-yau insists on going to work. Meanwhile, stress and strife between “the four elders” is not melting away. Tsoi-shan’s younger brother Yau Tsoi-fung and his wife Cheung Pik-chi, and Ngai-yau’s elder cousin sister Ip Fan and her husband Kwan Chi-chung are faced with contradictions and hurdles with regards to raising children. In the process, children are invariably proved to be the key for parents to seize opportunities for life-long learning and maturatio
California receives an unexpected gift: her mother, Itzel, has sent her a van together with a request: she wants her to travel to Zacatecas to be reunited with her after a nine-year absence. California convinces her three mistrustful parents that this trip will lead them to happiness. Soon, California, Miguel, Diego, and Morgan set out on an adventure that will turn their lives upside down. What they could never have imagined is that they are being followed by two funny thugs who are also after the mysterious woman.
Kasper's parents are divorced. Every other weekend he takes the train between Jutland and the capital with a group of other children. Kasper finds it difficult to make friends, but he has a talent for rapping and it gives him a strong connection with another outsider Tobias, who makes music on his computer. On the train the two boys make a rap CD for a pretty girl named Marie. It turns out that her father is a famous judge on a popular talent show on television. That opens up new opportunities for boys, but it also creates jealousy among the popular kids in the railway car.
Gu Jiayi navigates the love and pressure from her overbearing mother and a close-knit group of elderly women, whose lifelong friendship is tested by misunderstandings. As they age, they make a pact to travel together and eventually spend their final years in a retirement home.
Four high-school students work at a local hamburger joint called Bulky's -- but they are far more interested in their friends, fashion, dating and sports than they are in serving the customers. Not so assistant manager Ben, who takes his job very seriously.
In separate episodes, the series deals with the many sides of marital life and the various problems couples face across different classes and social backgrounds, through the story of the couple Mahmoud and Samia.