Charlie Matthews (television series)

Charlie Matthews is a Euro Republican children’s animated television series created by Carmit Arditi for Super Saturday.

Plot
The series centers around a troublemaking 12 year old kid called Charlie Matthews (voiced by British comedian John Thomson living with his family in a fictional version of Targetia, Euro Republics.

Development
Arditi concieved the show in 2015 and was commisioned for ZTV the next year, the series was initally supposed to be an adult animated series but midway through production Carmit decieded to make the show a children’s series and all the scripts were rewritten to remove swearing and sexual references although all gross out humour and (gory) violence remained. The series debuted in 2020 initally on TV3’s 3C programming block, and later on Super Saturday.

Euro Republics

 * 3C (2020)
 * Super Saturday (2020-present)
 * Cartoon Network (2020-present)

Australia

 * ABC Me
 * Cartoon Network

El Kadsre

 * El TV Kadsre 2 (part of Gethers) (2020-present)
 * ETVKK (2020-present)

United Kingdom

 * CITV (2020-present)
 * Boomerang (September 2020)

United States

 * Cartoon Network (July 2020)

Canada

 * Teletoon (2020-present)

Ireland

 * RTÉ2 (part of TRTÉ) (2020-present)
 * RTÉ Jr (channel) (2020-present)
 * TG4 (Irish dub) (part of Cula 4) (2020-present)

Critical reception
The series has recieved highly negative reviews from critics and parents, due to it’s use of gory violence, gross out humour, references to private areas and frequent innuendos. Despite this, TV3 have been dead set on making Charlie Matthews a hit series, with heavy advertising, the series was also due to air it’s season 1 finale during the 2020 Summer Olympics (of which TV3 was to show that year), although this was later scrapped due to the 2020 Olympics being cancelled. It has often been compared to It's... The Eric Crepitu Show! due to both shows relying mainly on toilet humour and gross out for laughs, and both failing. It currently holds 3.4/10 on IMDB and 21% on Rotten Tomatoes.