Little Charley Bear is a television show created & produced by Daniel Pickering

Daniel Pickering

Daniel Pickering is a British TV/Film Producer, Visual FX Artist and Animator, born in London, England. Daniel has a background in Engineering & Computer Animation, he worked in Special/Visual FX as CGI Consultant to Brian Johnson before founding the Animation & Production company Annix Studios,...

, Annix

Annix

AnnixAnnix Studios is a Privately owned Production company, Visual FX Facility and Animation Studio based at Pinewood Studios. They specialise in photo-realistic, high-resolution, computer-generated character animation and rendering....

 Studios in 2007. Narrated by James Corden

James Corden

James Kimberley Corden is an English actor, television writer, producer and presenter. He is co-creator and star of BBC comedy shows Gavin & Stacey and Horne & Corden, and acted in the 2009 film Lesbian Vampire Killers....

, Little Charley Bear takes viewers on a journey into the world of let's pretend, where anything is possible. Hit Entertainment

HIT Entertainment

Hit Entertainment is a British-American entertainment distribution company established in 1989, and originally the international distribution arm of Jim Henson Productions called Henson International Television...

 were the original distributors, gaining a network deal with CBeebies

CBeebies

CBeebies is the brand used by the BBC for programming aimed at children 6 years and under. It is used as a themed strand in the UK on terrestrial television, as a separate free-to-air domestic British channel and used for international varients supported by advertising, subscription or both...

 in December 2008.

The show was scheduled to start production in January 2009 but was halted due to the financial climate. Chapman Entertainment

Chapman Entertainment

Chapman Entertainment is a United Kingdom television production company founded by Keith Chapman and the producer of the Fifi and the Flowertots television show for Five....

 purchased Little Charley Bear from Annix Studios in September 2009 & full production commenced with Annix producing the show. Little Charley Bear made his TV debut in January 2011 on CBeebies

CBeebies

CBeebies is the brand used by the BBC for programming aimed at children 6 years and under. It is used as a themed strand in the UK on terrestrial television, as a separate free-to-air domestic British channel and used for international varients supported by advertising, subscription or both...

 with 1.4 million unique viewers in the first week. Annix finished making all 52 episodes in September 2011.

Vivid Imaginations

Vivid Imaginations

Vivid Imaginations is a company based in Guildford, Surrey, that manufactures, designs and distributes toys and holds distribution rights on a number of popular TV shows and Blockbuster movies. Captain scarlett was the first of many distribution deals that turned Vivid into the Uk's number 1 toy...

has produced a line of toys around the Little Charley Bear license.