| Tinpo | |
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| Also known as | Team Tinpo TinPo |
| Written by | Davey Moore Emma Hogan |
| Directed by | Moto Sakakibara |
| Composer | Oliver Spencer-Wortley |
| Country of origin | United States Japan (TV series) United Kingdom (TV series) |
| Original languages | English Japanese Welsh |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 78 |
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| Running time | 1 minute (shorts) 7 minutes (TV series) |
| Production companies | Shorts American Greetings TV series Cloudco Entertainment Dentsu Sprite Animation Studios OLM Digital[1] |
| Original release | |
| Network | CBS |
| Release | 3 October 2007 (2007-10-03) |
| Network | CBeebies (UK) TV Tokyo (Japan) |
| Release | 10 December 2018 (2018-12-10) – 19 November 2019 (2019-11-19) |
Tinpo (Japanese: ポータウンのなかまたち), (Welsh: Tîmpo) is a children's animated television series produced byCloudco Entertainment,Dentsu,Sprite Animation Studios andOLM Digital forCBeebies.[2]
The series originally ran as 1-minute online shorts on bothCBS'KEWLopolis block as well as onThe Hub.[3]
The series began airing on TVOKids in Canada on 3 June 2019.[4]
The show features four colourful human-like creatures called The Team Tinpo, who fix problems with creative solutions.[3]
The shorts were produced by American Greetings Entertainment (now Cloudco Entertainment).[3]
The TV series adaptation of the shorts was announced by the successor of American Greetings' entertainment division Cloudco Entertainment (formerly American Greetings Entertainment) when British broadcaster CBeebies and Japanese broadcaster TV Tokyo jointly commissioned a new series based on the Tinpo shorts which was being produced by Cloudco Entertainment in partnership with Japanese entertainment companies Dentsu and Japanese animation studioOLM Digital who will animated the series alongside its American animation partnerSprite Animation Studios.[5]
Lemonsky Studios provided additional outsourced service on the animation.[6]