Horrid Henry (TV series) facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Horrid Henry
Genre	Children's television series Sitcom
Written by	Tony Hall and Francesca Simon
Directed by	Dave Unwin
Voices of	Lizzie Waterworth-Santo Emma Tate Aidan Cook Joanna Ruiz Sue Elliott-Nichols Tamsin Heatley Wayne Forester
Country of origin	United Kingdom Canada (Series 1)
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	5
No. of episodes	250(and two specials) (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	11 minutes
Production company(s)	Novel Entertainment Nelvana Limited (Series 1)
Distributor	Nelvana Limited (2006–2008) Little Bird Rights (2008-2009) Target Entertainment (2010–2012) Zodiak Kids (2012-present)
Release
Original network	CITV (Series 1-4) Netflix (Series 5)
Original release	31 October 2006 (2006-10-31) – 17 May 2019 (2019-05-17)

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. The animation style differs from the Tony Ross illustrations in the books.

The series producer is Lucinda Whiteley and the animation director is Dave Unwin. 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.

A live action 3D film based on the series titled Horrid Henry: The Movie, was shown in cinemas in 2011 in the UK and on 2012 in the United States and Canada to Lead into the events of Series 3. with an all star cast, including Noel Fielding, Jo Brand, Theo Stevenson and Richard E Grant. The film received mostly negative reviews.

Episodes

Characters

Awards

International broadcast

In the United States, the series was exclusively released on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video and is still currently available to watch. In Africa, the series has aired on M-Net and Disney XD. In 2014, Cartoon Network and Boomerang acquired the series for Australia, New Zealand, 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.

Episodes

• 26 April - Not So Fun Run!
• 3 May - Name Game!
• 10 May - The Lost Dog!
• 17 May - The Time Capsule!
• 24 May - Sleepover!
• 31 May - Favourite Day!
• 7 June - The Big Dig!
• 14 June - Champion Chef!
• 21 June - Gone Fishing!
• 28 June - Perfect Peter, Popstar!
• 5 July - Pet Sitting Service!
• 12 July - Smelly Stuff!