Animal Barn

Animal Barn is a Kuboian children's television programme created by Janet Rose. The puppetry show, which ran from 1988 to 1990, is centred around a group of animals who have to help each other to tackle problems and tasks that involve running their farm. It is one of the first television series to be produced entirely in Kuboia.

Premise and format
The show centres around a group of animals living on a farm and working together to take care of tasks. Each episode is actually divided into three different segments which occur in the same order:
 * 1) The main plotline of each episode, which is typically centred around a certain topic.
 * 2) One of the characters, Little Pig, looking through his Picture Book. Each episode focuses on one of the pictures, which trasitions into a short sketch which varies from episode to episode.
 * 3) A short segment at the end of episodes which involves a certain card game, with the cards featuring the characters of the show.

Narration is provided by show creator Janet Rose.

Production
Animal Barn began production in April 1987 after plans for the first Kuboian television channel went underway. Rose's sister Judith Rose worked on another programme called Spade Castle round about the same time.

The show was given a very tight budget, and Rose was expected to have produced thirteen 15-minute episodes by the end of the year. Rose organised a Saturday afternoon arts and crafts group for both adults and children to design and make props and character puppets for the show. Rose was able to produce three episodes hastily and was unhappy with the result, which resulted in her and the production team redoing them. By December 1987, only five of the thirteen episodes had been completed, which resulted in most of the first series being delayed.