My favourite “Shaun The Sheep” cartoon character is set to get the big screen treatment, with a movie to be released in 2015. Movie is in making and I am excited. I just love the way intelligent shaun helps everybody on the farm.

Shaun the Sheep is a British stop-motion animated children’s television series produced by Aardman Animations, and commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), a constituent member of the consortium of German public-broadcasting institutions, ARD.

It first aired in the UK on CBBC in March 2007. The show consists of 80 episodes in 2 series, and the third series aired on 25 February 2013. The series has also inspired its own spin-off show, Timmy Time, which is aimed at younger viewers. The show has enjoyed success all over the world and has been broadcast in 180 countries around the world.

Major characters

• Shaun is the main protagonist of the series and the leader of the flock. He is a clever sheep and keeps his head. He has a good friendship with Bitzer.
• Bitzer is the farmer’s long-suffering sheepdog and a good friend to Shaun. Bitzer does his best to keep Shaun’s pals out of trouble. He wears a blue beanie hat, and like his compatriot Gromit, he acts very much human.
• Shirley can be described as an eating machine. She’s so big that she often gets stuck and needs the other sheep to push, pull or even sling-shot her out of trouble, even using heavy equipment at times.
• Timmy is Shaun’s cousin. He may be the baby of the flock, but is often at the center of things. Luckily his mum is always there to keep him safe. But sometimes she is not capable of it.
• Timmy’s Mother wears curlers in her hair, and is a bit careless about maternal duties, even using Timmy once as some sort of a paint brush. But when her offspring goes astray, she is inconsolable until he is safely back in her care. She is also Shaun’s aunt.
• The Flock are the one big happy, if slightly dopey, family: The sheep like to play and create mischief together, though it’s usually Shaun and Bitzer who sort out the resulting mess. Like typical sheep, they tend to follow each other.
• The Farmer is a drum and bass-loving rural farmer (voiced by John Sparkes) who runs the farm with Bitzer at his side. He is completely oblivious to the human-like intelligence (or even the stupidity) of his flock. His disastrous attempts at dating are an ongoing joke of the series.
• The Pigs are the main antagonists of first series and secondary antagonists of series two. They’re always trying to antagonize the Sheep and get them into trouble. They are, however, scared of Bitzer, who puts them in line. They are bullies to Shaun and his flock, and they got told off in "Pig Trouble" (Series 2) by the farmer.
• Pidsley is the Farmer’s cat, a minor character in series 1 and a major antagonist in series 2. He desires to be the sole recipient of the Farmer’s attention, and is jealous of Bitzer. He dislikes the sheep, thinking of them as stupid and beneath him.