Boule et Bill (2005 TV series)
2005 French-Canadian cartoon TV series
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Boule et Bill is a cartoon series produced in Canada (as a Canada-France co-production) in 2004[1][2] and aired in 2005. It is based on the popular Belgian comic Boule et Bill. It has aired on the channel Unis[3] since 2015. It is the second animated adaptation, the first airing in the year 1975 on the channel RTBF. There is also a third TV series produced in 2015 that has aired on France 3 since 2016.
Francois Monfeuga
Jacques Bastello
Olivier Lanneluc
Canada
| Boule et Bill | |
|---|---|
DVD cover | |
| Based on | Boule et Bill |
| Directed by | Francis Nielsen |
| Composers | Laurent Cayol Francois Monfeuga Jacques Bastello Olivier Lanneluc |
| Countries of origin | France Canada |
| Original language | French |
| No. of episodes | 104 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Gaspard de Chavagnac Paul Cadieux Patrick Dedieu |
| Production companies | Dargaud Marina Tooncan Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | TF1 |
| Release | January 3, 2005 – 2005 |
It is distributed internationally by Dargaud Distribution, and copyrighted in 2004 by Dargaud-Marina and Bel Ombre Films and TéléTOON/TPS Jeunesse. It is a Tooncan XXIII Inc. production.
Plot
The story focuses on a suburban family in Brussels in the 1960s.
Characters
- Boule/Billy is the boy
- Bill/Buddy is his dog
- Pierre is his dad
- Carine is his mom
- Mouf is a friend of Boule/Billy
- Plum is a girlfriend of Boule/Billy
Episodes
Air dates listed to right of episodes are air dates on Unis, their earlier debut dates on TF1 still need to be located as the overall original air date, at which point the Unis runs can be demoted to alt-date There are one hundred and four episodes.[2]
Numbers TBD:
- Camping sauvage 12 December 2015
- Un amour d'instituteur 15 December 2015
- La greve 16 December 2015
- Vitalis perd la boule 17 December 2015
- Boule de bois 18 December 2015
- Les Tarties 19 December 2015
- Lecon de seduction 22 December 2015
- La Saint-Valentin 23 December 2015
- Bill A Boa 24 December 2015
- Un Noel extra 25 December 2015
- Partie de chasse 29 December 2015
- Quelle vie de poulet 30 December 2015
- Le correspondent 31 December 2015
- Transmission de pensees 1 January 2016
- S.O.S. nid en detresse 3 March 2016
- L'ouef de Caroline 7 March 2016 (possibly debuted 5 May 2014 on unknown channel[4])
Numbers determined, OADs TBD:
Production
Development for the series was announced in August 2001, when Dupuis Audiovisuel, the production arm of Belgian comic publishing house Dupuis, had ordered a new animated series based on the Boule et Bill comic series with Dupuis Audiovisuel's distribution arm Dupuis Distribution set to distribute the series internationally.[5] Three years later on June 25 2004 during production on the upcoming adaptation, Dupuis Audiovisuel and its distributiom arm Dupuis Distribution alongside its comic publishing parent Dupuis had been brought by French media entertainment company Média-Participations who owned Dupuis' French publishing rival Dargaud with the latter's distribution unit Dargaud Distribution assumed the role of distribution when it absorbed the former's distribution division Dupuis Distribution.[6] Two months later at the start of September of that year following the acquisition of Dupuis Audiovisuel and kts's parent Dupuis by Média-Participations, development of the series was moved to Dargaud's animation division Dargaud Marina when it partnered with Canadian animation studio Tooncan Productions to produce Boule & Bill, becoming a French/Canadian production with TF1 being served as commissioner & Gaspard de Chavagnac and Paul Cadieux would serve as producers for the upcoming adaptation.[7]
It is co-produced by Patrick Dedieu. Administrative production by Judith Serfaty, assistant-produced by Ingrid Libercier and Jennifer Regent.
It is directed by Francis Nielsen, with additional direction by Francois Sasseville-Dargaud-Marina and Carine Neant and Muriel Achery and Didier Lejuene and Davia Orsatelle.
The graphics adaptation is done by Remi Lasfargeas of Acacia Studio - La Faktory. Also by Seahorse Productions, with artistic director responsible for design Serge Cicerone and Bernard le Gall supervising storyboards. The animation is done by Hong-Guang Animation Suzhou, with associated producer George Chang and assistant producer Mandy Le, coordinating producers Linus Lee and Sophie Huang, and animation supervisors SKinny Wen, Anthony Wang, Max Ma, Denis Du, Jack Zhou, and Sunny Sun.
Music is by Laurent Cayol, Francois Monfeuga, Jacques Bastello, and Olivier Lanneluc. Musical editing is done by Dargaud-Marina - Emi Virgin Music Publishing.
Additional work by Laurent-Christophe de Ruelle and Nathalie Coupal and Kun Jalabet.