A first look at the BBC's flagship animated Christmas adaptation of children's story The Smeds and The Smoos has been released.
Magic Light Pictures shared the new trailer for the Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler spectacular which will hit BBC screens for the festive season, starring Bridgerton's Adjoa Andoh and Strictly Come Dancing winner Bill Bailey.The clip shows the two young protagonists, Janet and Bill, playing together in the Wurpular Wood, much to the annoyance of their families.The Smeds and the Smoos tells the story of the pair who fall in love and run away together, forcing their red and blue families to put aside their differences to search for them.The Gruffalo creator Donaldson Scheffler's story of a love which overcomes divisions also stars double Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins as the narrator, with Andoh as Grandmother Smoo and comedian Bailey as Grandfather Smed.Meera Syal will play Aunt Smed and Rob Brydon will be returning for his tenth Magic Light film as Uncle Smoo.Ashna Rabheru and Daniel Ezra will play the young couple, Janet and Bill, respectively.The Smeds and the Smoos was directed by Samantha Cutler and Daniel Snaddon.Donaldson was the 2011-2013 Children's Laureate and is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children, especially those illustrated by Scheffler, which include The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom and Stick Man.Speaking about the partnership, Andoh said: "What Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler have completely nailed with this story is its intergenerational appeal."We can sit together as a family to watch and get the same things from the story but also richly different things as well depending on our ages and stages."And there is of course the timeless message around the sort
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