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The Baaas (The Meees in Welsh) is a Welsh language children's television show from Wales. It is about a family of multicultural opera-singing sheep. It is shown on S4C, the Welsh equivalent of Channel 4. 52 episodes over two series of the 15-minute show have been made.
Characters
The family run their own recycling plant from their home at Acropolis Cottage, and are headed by Costas, a male sheep from Greece, who is married to Baalwen, a black Welsh sheep, whom he supposedly met in a Milanese choir. The couple live with their daughter, Meegan, her partner, Meelvyn and their twins called Jaason and Meedea.
Show history
The show was first broadcast in 2005, and later in that year went on to win a Bafta Cymru for the Best New Media TV or Film Related In April 2006 the rights to air the show were purchased by Al Jazeera, the Arabic television station, after Sheikha Mozah, the wife of the Emir of Qatar and channel founder supposedly "fell in love with" them [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2115573,00.html. The show is to be dubbed into English
- Director: Helen Sheppard
- Producer: Nia Ceidiog, of Cynhyrchiadau Ceidiog Creations
See also
External links
S4C television programmes | Welsh television programmes
"The Baaas"