Shaun The Sheep

Kew Gardens launches Easter Shaun the Sheep Festival

A Shaun the Sheep has been launched at K-ewe gardens to celebrate Easter and the arrival of spring.

Shaun the Sheep to star in arts trail

Up to 120 giant sculptures, depicting Shaun the Sheep in a variety of guises, will form a major public arts trail across London and Bristol next year.

Shaun made his first official appearance with Wallace and Gromit in A Close Shave in 1995, and has since starred in three series of the Aardman animation. Based on slapstick and silent comedy, each episode sees Shaun getting into scrapes on the farm. Today a furniture removal van creates a traffic jam in the lane, giving Bitzer the farm dog a tricky problem to solve.

Shaun the Sheep: New series - first look pictures

A photo gallery of the new series of Shaun the Sheep.

Even sports-phobics should enjoy Mossybottom Farm's Olympics, with their vuvuzela-tooting crowd and a porcine attempt to sabotage the BMX race. Today's double bill starts with Strictly Come Judo, an event that the International Olympic Committee might consider. Then it's the ribbon routine, which our woolly hero finishes with a flourish.

Aardman Animations plan new Shaun the Sheep film

Aardman Animations, the Oscar-winning company behind Shaun the Sheep, has started work on a new feature film starring the character.

He may not have the brand recognition of Wallace and Gromit among adults, but chances are that any anklebiters in your vicinity will already be well-versed in the ways of Shaun the Sheep. For the uninitiated, though: Nick Park's cheeky farmyard dweller made his debut back in 1995 in A Close Shave, before getting his own series in 2007. His adventures consist largely of pulling the wool over the eyes of the Farmer and Bitzer, the long-suffering sheepdog. Terrific fun, showing daily.

The painstaking production of Shaun the Sheep

As Shaun the Sheep returns to BBC One, The Telegraph goes behind the scenes at the Aardman Animations studios. Ewe won't believe how long it takes to make...

DVD Review: Shaun the Sheep

Shaun the Sheep and Aardman Animations once again prove that stop-motion animation is alive and well. This stop-motion animated series is about a flock of sheep on a farm and the trouble they get into in their daily lives. The series centers on the adventures of Shaun, the title character, who is the lead sheep in the flock.