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Ricky Sprocket - Showbiz Boy is a comedy series about an average kid with a not so average lifestyle. The series chronicles the adventures of superstar child actor Ricky Sprocket as he tries to balance family, friends and school with the pressures of his crazy showbiz life.

Ricky is the world's biggest child movie star, but he's no jaded, precocious child star. He's famous, he's rich beyond belief and he has all the latest toys and he loves making movies, but at heart he's just a regular kid with parents who embarrass him, a sister that annoys him, a flatulent dog and too much homework.

His studio boss, Mr. Fischburger, however, is more concerned with his huge career than such quaint trivialities as a childhood and Ricky always finds himself starring in larger-than-life action and comedy both on and off the set.

Ricky hangs around with a gang of school friends, Benny, Jamal and Morris.  They help him deal with his Hollywood life and keep him grounded.  On the other hand, he also has to deal with his usual co-star, Kitten Kaboodle.  She is the quintesential Hollywood brat and does what she can to undermine him.

Ricky's parents, Bunny and Leonard, are no nonsense, down to earth folks who have little time for Hollywood shenanigans.  Bunny is a stay at home mom while Leonard holds down his job as senior manager at a sausage factory.  If there's some wisdom for Leonard to impart, it usually involves some kind of sausage analogy.

Stories deal not only with the trials and tribulations of being a big movie star kid, but kid issues that are familiar to everyone.  The stories are exciting and aspirational, but at the same time grounded in a reality we all know, with familiar characters and issues, but in  the hyperreal world that is Hollywood. 

Ricky's movie world, although contemporary, is more like a simple world from a bygone age.  Ricky works for Wishworks Studios and is their number one star, but it's not the business of Hollywood that is our main concern, but the fun, cool stuff that happens when a kid can play act almost any fantasy.  More often than not, however, things don't go as planned.  Being a movie star isn't just all fun and games.

Ricky has to deal with his cantancerous studio boss, Louis Fischburger and his manic director, Wolf Wolinski who is constantly pulling his hair out everytime a take goes wrong, which it often does.

David and Alison came up with Ricky Sprocket about ten years ago, but put it on the backburner when they made Bob and Margaret.  When they came back to it, they teamed up with Tatiana Kober of Bejuba Entertainment to help sell the show.  They came to Vancouver to produce the series with Studio B Productions, one of Canada's top animation studios.

Ricky currently airs in Canada on Teletoon, the US on Nicktoons and on Nickelodeon in the UK and all other territories where Nick broadcasts (Latin America, France, Italy, Australia...).  In all, Ricky airs in around 127 different countries.

The series is produced in Flash, but for the most part, maintains a traditional, 2D cartoon feel.  Designs and storyboards are produced the old fashioned way, with paper and pencils, and then built in Flash and animated.