{"id":38954,"date":"2015-01-16T09:37:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T17:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=38954"},"modified":"2015-01-21T18:14:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T02:14:24","slug":"shatner-to-lend-voice-to-uks-clangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2015\/01\/shatner-to-lend-voice-to-uks-clangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner To Lend Voice To UK&#8217;s Clangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38957\" alt=\"ShatnerClangers011615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ShatnerClangers011615.gif\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>William Shatner<\/strong> will be the narrator of the US version of the UK space series <em>The Clangers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Shatner will begin his work as narrator in June 2015.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><em>The Clangers<\/em> is &#8220;a contemporary version of the BBC\u2019s beloved British stop-animation television show from the 1960&#8217;s co-produced by <em>Sprout, Coolabi Group, Smallfilms<\/em> and <em>CBeebies<\/em>. The award-winning television and film star will help <em>Sprout<\/em> boldly go where no children&#8217;s network has gone before, bringing his distinct humor to a new audience as he comments on the extraordinary activities of the space-dwelling Clangers family in fifty-two new episodes of stop-frame animation. The series is scheduled to premiere on<em> Sprout<\/em>&#8216;s <em>Sunny Side Up Show<\/em> at 11 am on June 20th, 2015 and will also run nightly at 8 pm within <em>The Good Night Show<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Clangers are a &#8220;unique family of imaginary, pink, long-nosed [mouse-like] creatures who live on a small blue planet in space. These inquisitive and adventurous creatures \u2013 who are very loving and supportive of each other and their friends \u2013 communicate through high-pitched Clanger whistles. The Clangers family \u2013 alongside a cast of many other peculiar creatures \u2013 create a warm and harmonious world of fun, imagination, exploration and invention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;When we began working on <em>Clangers<\/em>, we knew that we needed to find a narrator for the show who could connect with multiple generations of parents and kids,&#8217; said <em>Sprout<\/em> President <strong>Sandy Wax<\/strong>. &#8216;William Shatner has a voice that is comfortable in outer space and captures the distinct charm of the show while bringing his own unique sensibility to the role.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Shatner will be the narrator of the US version of the UK space series&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2414,8198],"class_list":["post-38954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-shatner","tag-the-clangers"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39053,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38954\/revisions\/39053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}