Daddy Pig will be running in the London Marathon for the National Deaf Children’s Society @ndcs_uk this weekend! The whole storyline has been a joyous collaboration between so many people and we’re hoping that Daddy Pig raises so much money for charity! We made a 3 episode Marathon special that kicked everything off, which you can watch right now on Channel 5 online (Season 9, episodes 24-26). James Butler’s layout department and Rob Cureton’s animation team absolutely smashed these episodes with a mountain of characters to track and animate!! They are some of our funniest episodes of Karrot’s run, written by Tim O’Sullivan and directed by Andrea Tran, so we hope you can discover them this weekend whilst cheering Daddy Pig on!

All 10 of our newest Peppa Pig episodes are now on Channel 5 to stream! Highlights include James Acaster and Sandra Dickinson in ‘The Biggest Picture in the World’, and, in ‘Penny Polar Bears’s Party’, Penny’s two Mummies throw her an Ice Hockey Birthday surprise, featuring an incredible action sports rework of the Peppa theme by Julian Nott, plus some hilarious Miss Rabbit moments from Sarah Ann Kennedy! ‘Duck Race’ also stars Evie Pig in a lovely ensemble episode, and Brian Blessed is back as Grampy Rabbit in ‘Grown Up Playground’. Morwenna Banks has perfect comic star turns in ‘Martial Arts’ and ‘Dr Hamster’s Ant Farm’. All amazing work from the Karrot Crew on these!!

We’re thrilled to share that ‘My Friend Maisy’ has been nominated for an RTS West of England Award! - The series is a collaboration made alongside the marvellous @aproductionsuk in Bristol and many of our Karrot artists work in Cardiff and around the country, so we’re so delighted to be recognised by the RTS West of England jury! Congratulations to all of the brilliant crew who have made a beautiful show. Catch ‘My Friend Maisy’, a BBC Studios and Trustbridge Entertainment production, on Sky Kids now!

Today’s Peppa features a wonderful farce as Grandpa Pig drops an anchor on his foot and needs to have a stay in hospital - It’s another two part episode, and they are some of Phil Hall’s finest scripts! We were so lucky to get David Graham to record this from his home before his passing, and he delivers the humour perfectly. By making a new episode set at the hospital, it gave Shelley Revill and her art team a chance to update the hospital designs, which proved invaluable when we all committed to the new arrival in the Pig Family - we already had a very exciting-looking expanded hospital design to stage everything at. Stream the episode on Five @channel5_tv now, and watch out for part two at 7:40am on @milkshake_tv tomorrow!