Tinpo

Tinpo
Also known as	Team Tinpo TinPo
Written by	Davey Moore Emma Hogan
Directed by	Moto Sakakibara
Composer	Oliver Spencer-Wortley
Countries of origin	United States Japan (TV series) United Kingdom (TV series)
Original languages	English Japanese Welsh
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	78
Production
Executive producers	Sean Gorman Karen Vermeulen Ryan Wiesbrock Kiyofumi Kajiwara Toshiaki Okuno
Producers	Tomoe Kimura Masashi Kobayashi Junichi Yanagihara
Running time	1 minute (shorts) 7 minutes (TV series)
Production companies	Shorts American Greetings TV series Cloudco Entertainment Dentsu Sprite Animation Studios OLM Digital
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	3 October 2007 (2007-10-03)
Network	CBeebies (UK) TV Tokyo (Japan)
Release	10 December 2018 (2018-12-10) – 19 November 2019 (2019-11-19)

Tinpo (Japanese: ポータウンのなかまたち), (Welsh: Tîmpo) is a children's animated television series produced by Cloudco Entertainment, Dentsu, Sprite Animation Studios and OLM Digital for CBeebies.

The series originally ran as 1-minute online shorts on both CBS' KEWLopolis block as well as on The Hub.

The series began airing on TVOKids in Canada on 3 June 2019.

Premise

The show features four colourful human-like creatures called The Team Tinpo, who fix problems with creative solutions.

Characters

• Tinpo (Ross Grant): a blue member and the leader of Team Tinpo. He is a dreamer and a doer.
• Dougpo (Lizzie Waterworth-Santo): a yellow member of Team Tinpo. She boldly acts on gut and instinct.
• Logipo (Kevin Wickham): a reddish-orange member of Team Tinpo. He's cautious and by the book.
• Hackpo (Joanna Ruiz): a purple member of Team Tinpo. She heads up communication and invents deads gadgets.
• Herman: the pet hamster of Tinpo. He has his own hamster ball and bag.
• Finn: the pet fish of Logipo. She has her own fish ball.
• Frek: a blueish po. He has a number one on his back and has ideas. He can fix thing and make things.
• Duxx: an orange po. She has a number two on her back, who is up to something and she is such a genius.
• Sync: a blackish po. He is a child-like. He has a number three on his back and he is not a boss.
• Seeb: a greenish po. He has a number four on his back and he is an elf-like and clumsy.
• Trey: a red po. She has a number five on her back and she does not have a mouth and cannot talk.
• Oddo: A pinkish po.

Production

The shorts were produced by American Greetings Entertainment (now Cloudco Entertainment).

The TV series adaptation of the shorts was announced by the successor of American Greetings' entertainment division Cloudco Entertainment (formerly American Greetings Entertainment) when British broadcaster CBeebies and Japanese broadcaster TV Tokyo jointly commissioned a new series based on the Tinpo shorts which was being produced by Cloudco Entertainment in partnership with Japanese entertainment companies Dentsu and Japanese animation studio OLM Digital who will animated the series alongside its American animation partner Sprite Animation Studios.

Lemonsky Studios provided additional outsourced service on the animation.

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