Ted Lasso’ actor Hannah Waddingham will lend her voice to ‘Tiddler’, an animated special all set to air this Christmas, reported Variety.The Oscar-nominated Magic Light Pictures is producing the animation alongside, which is based on Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s classic children’s picture book of the same title.According to its official synopsis, “Tiddler” tells the story of a “small grey fish with a big imagination who gets lost in the deep wide ocean, until he’s saved by his storytelling.”Waddingham is set to narrate the half-hour special, which will feature Lolly Adefope as Miss Skate, Jayde Adams as Plaice and other characters and Rob Brydon taking on the roles of the Fisherman, Whale, Starfish and Anchovy. Child actors Reuben Kirby and Theo Fraser also star as Tiddler and Johnny Dory, respectively. “Every day, Tiddler tells a different story to his teacher and his friend Johnny Dory about why he’s late for school,” the synopsis continued.In a statement, Waddingham said her narrator role was “a real joy to record,” adding that “Tiddler is “the tale of the storyteller in all of us, and helps children understand what it’s like to be a small fish in a very big pond (and we’ve all felt THAT in life!) I have loved reading the books by Julia and Axel to my daughter over the years and it’s so lovely to get to bring one of them to screen in this beautiful animation.” ‘Tiddler’ is Magic Light Pictures’ 12th animated special for the BBC, based on Donaldson and Scheffler’s books. Andy Martin and Alex Bain direct from a script by Michael Bohnenstingl, while Barney Goodland and Martin Pope produce for Magic Light, according to Variety.
