Blue Owl

Blue Owl is a Kuboian traditionally animated children's television series produced by 32B Entertainment. It aired on Vision Network's Saturday evening programming strand Bumper's Block, and twenty three episodes over two series were produced for the show. Series 1 had twelve episodes and premiered in early 1994, whilst series 2 had eleven episodes and premiered in early 1995.

It was one of the last Kuboian animated series to use traditional ink, as Kuboian cartoon studios had almost entirely switched to digital ink by the mid-1990s.

Premise
Taking place in Wild Woods, a fictional forest-like area, in the area's largest tree live Orson "Blue Owl" Twitter and his mother, who sleep during the day and wake up during the night. During the daytime, the animals who reside in Wild Woods regularly face problems and/or conflicts which they have trouble resolving. When night falls, however, Blue Owl wakes up and helps his friends when they most need it.

Development
Dominic Halls, who was the chairman of TVVC's Children's Department at the time, was pressuring Bumper's Block to produce more original programming in order to avoid paying for too many acquired programmes and to "increase Kuboian cultural awareness in animation".

The series began production in 1992. It was created by German-Dutch producer Melony Claes, who originally created the show centred around an owahockoot, though the character was changed to an owl in order for non-Kuboian audiences to understand him more. Blue Owl's real name Orson Twitter was based off Claes' pet goldfish she had as a child. A lot of the recurring characters meanwhile were named after key people the production team knew in their childhoods.

During its premiere, Blue Owl was distributed by Crayon Media, which held rights for the show until it disolved in December 2009. The rights have since transferred over to TVVC themselves.

International broadcasts
Blue Owl was sold to and has aired on several children's television channels worldwide.

It aired on TVOKids in Canada, France 3 in France and TVNZ 2 in New Zealand.

In the United Kingdom, the show aired on CBBC from late 1994 to December 2001. It later aired on CBeebies in reruns from February 2002 until June 2004.

VHS releases
Blue Owl was released in the mid-1990s on five VHS tapes, which each had four episodes.
 * Blue Owl: The Midnight Feast and other stories - released 1995
 * Blue Owl: The Great Egg Hunt and other stories - released 1996
 * Blue Owl: The Paper Chase and other stories - released 1996
 * Blue Owl: The Wild Woods Theatre and other stories - released 1997
 * Blue Owl: The Missing Monkey and other stories - released 1997

DVD releases

 * Blue Owl: The Complete First Series - released 2003
 * Blue Owl: The Complete Second Series - released 2004