Bob and Margaret

    "Show of the week"
    People Magazine (USA)

    "The New Seinfeld".
    The Guardian (UK)

    "Satirizing to perfection the ups
    and downs of domestic drudgery".
    The Telegraph (UK)

    "The finest, daftest animation
    series now running"
    The Scotsman

 

    "One of the most thoughtful and,
    at the same time, funniest new shows
    of the season".
    The Toronto Star

    "Sharply observed, slightly wicked and
    very funny comedy"
    London's Time Out

    "Animation series that gets to the parts of
    contemporary angst that conventional
    sitcoms can no longer reach"
    The London Evening Standard (UK)

 

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Bob and Margaret has won a number of awards and accolades including TV Guide Magazines public choice for favourite animated show, Best Prime Time Animated Series at the LA World Animation Celebration and a Montreaux Golden Rose nomination for best comedy series (competing against live action!)

For the second 26 episodes (season 3 and 4), Bob and Margaret moved to Toronto themselves. This was because the major funding for the production was from Canada and this required that the series tell stories based in Canada. So the Fish's moved to Toronto for adventures as displaced Brits in North America. Alison and David consulted on the series, but did not direct or story edit the shows as they did in the first two series.

The series is now shown sporadically around the world, but remains in heavy rotation in Canada on YTV, where it airs twice every weekday.

Season 2 is available on DVD in Canada and the UK.  Season one can be found on old fashioned VHS tapes.  (No more wax cylinder versions are available!)  The reason season one is not on DVD is because the rights holders to season one are different and they have not chosen to release it on DVD.  Nothing we can do about it.

Bob and Margaret™ was based on the 12 minute Oscar winning short film,
Bob's Birthday, which Alison and David made for The National Film Board
of Canada and Channel 4 Television in the U.K.

Bob and Margaret was a production made at Toronto's Nelvana Ltd.  For
episodes 1-26, most of the scripts were written in the UK.  The voices were
also recorded in London.  Many talented UK actors featured in the series
including Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Doon Mackickan, Enn Reitel, Meera
Syal as well as many other fine actors.  Series co-dreator Alison Snowden
was the voice of Margaret.  Award winning TV producer, writer and actor
Andy Hamilton played Bob.

The show has enjoyed great critical and ratings success.  When it premiered on Comedy Central in the US, the ratings were second only to the hit show South Park.  In Canada on Global TV, the show was the number one rated Canadian show and was their twelfth highest rated series of any kind.  In the UK, Bob and Margaret enjoyed unprecedented critical acclaim for a UK prime time animation series with numerous picks of the day and excellent reviews in the major press.