Mister Maker is a pre-school children's arts and crafts programme commissioned by Michael Carrington

Michael Carrington (TV)

Michael Carrington is Chief Content Officer, EMEA at Turner Broadcasting System Europe.-Early life:Born in 1961, in Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia, his father is a direct descendant of Jacob Weins, a co-founder of the Mennonites....

 at the BBC

BBC

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 for CBeebies

CBeebies

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. The programme launched in 2007 and also airs on BBC One

BBC One

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 and BBC Two

BBC Two

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. In the United States

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 and Latin America

Latin America

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 the show airs on the Discovery Familia

Discovery Familia

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 network, dubbed in Spanish. To date three series have been commissioned from The Foundation (part of RDF Media

RDF Media

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).. It also airs in Australia on ABC2

ABC2

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. The programme comprises a mixture of animation and real time content. Mister Maker is played by Phil Gallagher

Phil Gallagher

Phil Gallagher is a British presenter, actor, writer and voiceover artist from Gillingham, Kent, who is best known for his title role in the CBeebies programme Mister Maker.Gallagher started his career as a presenter and sports reporter on BBC Radio Kent...

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Sequence

Every episode has the same sequence:
1) Has a creative idea and demonstrates the procedure
2) Shape dance and make a picture
3) Minute-make-time
4) Frame-it
5) One more creative idea is demonstrated
6) Clean-up

Mister Maker does something interesting and that gives him an idea of what to make. He collects the required things from the Doodle drawers or an art and craft shop and make it. Then he wakes up the shapes and they do a silly song and dance, followed by a randomly selected shape (circle, triangle, square or rectangle) to form a picture or to find how many (particular shape) are there. Tocky, the cuckoo clock then pops out for Minute Make Time and Mister Maker will make something in a minute, usually completing it just before the timer stops. The 'colour kids' will ask from the window to Mister Maker to guess what they would make with their 'colour costumes'. It is followed by 'Frame It', where Mister Maker makes something 'ever so good' that the viewers will be able to Frame It! Mister Maker will be confronted by something, and that will give him an idea on what to make next. The show then ends showing credits and Mister Maker putting everything back into the art box.

Award nominations

• BAFTA Children's Awards 2009
• nominated for Best Presenter (Phil Gallagher/Mister Maker)