Jelly Jamm

''This article is about the English version of Jelly Jamm. For foreign dubs, please see the Foreign Dubs page.''



Jelly Jamm is a 3D-animated cartoon for children that is a British-Spanish co-production, although other countries such as Japan, Portugal and even the United States were involved in its creation. The series was produced by Vodka Capital and 737 Shaker in Spain, with input from international companies RTVE (Spain), Big Picture Productions (Portugal), Bestial Investment (Spain), and Bandai Namco (Japan). The characters and concept for the show were originally created in Spain, and the show’s animation is done in Spain. However, all the original scripts and song lyrics were written by a team of Brits and Americans under the supervision of New York-based P. Kevin Strader. The original voice cast is also completely British. The show was originally produced in British English and targeted at the Anglosphere.

The series was created by Carlos L. Del Rey, Victor M. López and David Cantolla. P. Kevin Strader was the head writer. It was directed by Luis Gallego and Javier Ledesma. It is produced by Carolina Matas, Salvador Fabregat, Victor M. López, David Cantolla and Steven J. Posner. Ruben Zarauza became a co-executive producer in season 2. Though Spanish artist Guille Milkyway composed the music for the series, Londonite Paul Bevoir wrote all the vocal songs’ lyrics. He also helped compose some of the songs for the show, specifically "Holding Hands Around the World." The songs are performed by Guille Milkyway himself accompanied by a Welsh band by the name of Helen Love, along with a chorus of children for "Holding Hands Around the World." Guille Milkyway wrote new Spanish lyrics for each song for the European Spanish dub, and sung them all himself. The lyrics were left mostly the same but with minor alterations in the Latin American Spanish dub despite Mexican band Liquits re-recording all the songs. Numerous other American script writers have worked on the series, including Claudia Silver, Susan Kim and Rob David.

The show first premiered on Cartoonito on September 5th, 2011 in the UK; however, in Spain it premiered four days earlier on the same block, as a sneak peek, on September 1st, 2011. It has been known to be in development since 2008. The second season premiered in late 2012 and lasted until May 2013, when the final episode aired.

Summary


The show follows the adventures of five alien children - Bello, Goomo, Mina, Rita and Ongo living on the planet Jammbo, which serves as the origin of all music in the universe, as well as the King and Queen who rule the planet and operate the Music Factory with the help of the Dodos. Each episode focuses on their daily lives, and often there is a conflict which needs to be solved. The episodes present valuable morals in the form of entertaining stories interspersed with dance numbers.

JellyJamm.com
Jelly Jamm celebrates music, fun, and friendship. Join Bello and his friends in their comedic adventures as they figure out how to live in harmony on the magical Planet Jammbo - origin of music in the universe.

YouTube
Welcome to Jelly Jamm! When you hear this music, it means you've reached planet Jammbo! A world full of happiness, games, harmony, and music! The small Dodos bring life to the planet and from The Music Factory they send songs to the entire universe! In Jelly Jamm, you'll meet new friends: fun Bello, innocent Goomo, brilliant Mina, little Rita, quiet Ongo, the amusing King and his sweet Queen. Dance and play with them! Visit Jammbo where you'll experience a thousand adventures to the rhythm of the music. Bello, Goomo, Mina, Rita and Ongo are waiting to play with you! Live a thousand jelly adventures on Jelly Jamm!

IMDb
Join Bello and his Jelly Jamm friends as they share exciting adventures on their home planet of Jammbo, where music is born. Laugh and learn with these magical friends as they use fun and creativity to face their fears, solve everyday problems and learn to live together in happiness and harmony.

Knowledge Kids
Life is a song on planet Jammbo where you can jump in flying bathtubs and run around in magic sneakers. One song at a time, Bello and his friends learn to live in harmony with the plants and creatures in their magical world.

Cartoonito
Welcome to Jelly Jamm's world of music, fun and friendship! Join Bello and his friends in their adventures on the magic planet Jammbo, which is where their music comes from!

ZooMoo
Jelly Jamm is a children's animation series on TV for kids from 4 to 7 years which celebrates music, fun and friendship. Every episode has a lesson to learn. Join Bello and his friends in their funny adventures as they figure out how to live in harmony on the magical Planet Jammbo - origin of music in the universe.

Milkshake
Quivering with musical discovery, Jelly Jamm follows the adventures of Bello, Rita, Goomo, Mina and Ongo - five wacky friends who must learn to live in harmony on the magical planet Jammbo; from where all music in the universe originates. From organising a surprise party for the Queen to trying out a bathtub which flies to music, Bello and his friends embark on a series of adventures to discover the “Jelly” we all have inside – the lifeforce of fun and creativity. With unique animation, loveable characters, vibrant colours and catchy original music, Jelly Jamm is sure to get pre-schoolers humming along as they join in the foot-tapping fun and get in touch with their inner “Jelly”.

Amazon
Join Bello, Ongo, Rita, Mina and Goomo as they get up to all sorts of fun and mischief on Jammbo.

History
Jelly Jamm was the first production by both Vodka Capital and 737 Shaker. Originally, the series was to be produced by the interactive agency Secuoyas, which Cantolla had founded, in conjunction with López’ production company Vodka Capital. Together with Carlos L. Del Rey, the two pitched the initial idea of Jelly Jamm to RTVE in 2008. When it was time for animation to begin, they founded the new Segovia-based studio 737 Shaker to handle bringing Jelly Jamm to life. The involvement by Brits came to be when it was time to begin writing the scripts and songs, and give the characters their distinctive, memorable voices. Prolific voice artists in the UK, such as Lizzie Waterworth (known for Horrid Henry, the number three most watched cartoon in the UK as of 2019 and number one most watched program on Nicktoons UK) and Maria Darling (known for Rubbadubbers, Chuggington, Fifi and the Flowertots, Roary the Racing Car, and other international smash-hits) were included in the original cast alongside up-and-coming then-child actress Isabella Blake-Thomas in her first-ever voiceover role. The creators signed a distribution agreement with Turner Broadcasting in October 2010 to broadcast the show on Cartoonito programming blocks across Europe and the Middle East.

Broadcast and dubbing history
Jelly Jamm has 28 international dubs in 23 unique languages. From 2011-2014, it mainly aired on Cartoonito programming blocks and channels across Europe and the Middle East. It also aired on local stations in its countries of origin following its Cartoonito premiere: the Milkshake! programming block on Channel 5 in the UK and Clan in Spain. In Latin America and Brazil, it aired during this time on Discovery Kids (up until as late as 2017, albeit sparingly following 2013) and numerous local stations in Mexico, Argentina and Colombia. In Canada, it began airing in 2012 on local stations in Ontario and British Columbia. It aired until 2016 on TVO Kids and until September 7, 2020 on Knowledge Kids.

In 2013, the European Portuguese dub of Jelly Jamm premiered on RTP as part of the ZigZag programming block. It also premiered on Cartoonito in Southeast Asia in 2013, but it only aired in English. A Putonghua Mandarin Chinese dub made for mainland China has been known to exist since 2013, as well, distributed by Ciwen Media Group and dubbed by WeKids. This dub could be watched in the Buddies TV app, and on linear television via CCTV-14. This made China the first Asian country to receive a Jelly Jamm dub. Taiwan later received its own dub of the series, Happy Jelly World (歡樂果果國), in 2015. Also since at least 2015, Jelly Jamm has aired in syndication with a new Brazilian Portuguese dub. The dub aired on TV Brasil as part of their TV Brasil Animada programming block in 2020, TV Aparecida as part of their Clubti block from October 12, 2015 to September 28, 2019, and ZooMoo Kids Brazil since December 25, 2018. It is also available to watch in full on YouTube.

In 2015, Aqui Media secured the license to Jelly Jamm and produced the Japanese dub of it alongside Pocoyo. The two shows begun airing together in January 2016 on BS12, TV Tokyo, Tokyo MX and other local stations. The most recent airing of Jelly Jamm on a Japanese TV station was in late June 2020 on Tokyo MX. Also in 2016, it received an illegal Albanian dub (known as Planeti i muzikës) on Bang Bang, which aired until 2019 and reaired in 2020 on sister network Çufo.

Jelly Jamm was broadcast on TV in the United States of America for the first time in the summer of 2017, when Galavision aired episodes of the Latin American Spanish dub as part of their “GalaVerano” promotion. Since 2018, another illegal dub of Jelly Jamm made for and by the Basma channel in Saudi Arabia has been known to exist. Known as Kingdom of Friends (مملكة الاصدقاء), the dub is notorious for replacing all of the show’s original soundtrack with its own songs.

Jelly Jamm first hit American airwaves in English when the channel launched stateside in 2018 (although ZooMoo US does broadcast the Latin American Spanish dub on their Spanish feed), and Jelly Jamm returned to Latin American TV screens on their local ZooMoo feed in January 2019. Jelly Jamm was broadcast in East Asia and Oceania for the first time in six years, on ZooMoo in Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, South Korea (with Korean subtitles), Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines, beginning on January 21, 2019. It also returned to mainland Chinese airwaves thanks to CCTV-14’s ZooMoo block. On May 15, 2019, Jelly Jamm was made an official part of the worldwide ZooMoo programming slate thanks to Canadian company Blue Ant Media’s acquisition of the distribution rights to the series. This allowed for new dubs and deals to be made. As per this expansion into new territories, the series received dubs in Thai and the Indonesian language, alongside an alternative English dub produced in Singapore by Beach House. The alternate English dub preserves the scripts from the original for the most part, and has aired on Asian feeds of ZooMoo since 2020.

In May 2020, African broadcaster StarTimes Kids picked up Jelly Jamm and produced their own Swahili-language dub of the series, making Jelly Jamm a rare example of a cartoon dubbed into Swahili. June of that same year is when Blue Ant Media and YFE, a German company, made a “content swap” deal which would confirm the return of Jelly Jamm to German TV. It is unknown when the program will air on either Fix & Foxi or RiC, and which of the two channels it will premiere on. However, the show does currently air on the pan-African, English-only feed of Fix & Foxi.

Cast

 * Lizzie Waterworth (credited as Lizzie Waterworth-Sante, and Lizzie Waterworth-Santo in some episodes) - Bello
 * Maria Darling - Goomo
 * Isabella Blake-Thomas - Rita
 * Emma Weaver - Mina
 * Bruno Coronel - Ongo
 * Adam Longworth - The King
 * Beth Chalmers - The Queen

Character and Episode Guides

 * Character Guide
 * Episode Guide

Where to watch
''These details are for the original British English version only. For where to watch dubs, please put those links on the aforementioned dubs’ pages.''


 * YouTube
 * XUMO (US only)
 * Ameba
 * Streaming service Kidoodle TV
 * Streaming service Toon Goggles
 * ZooMoo TV channel (US and Latin America, via SAP if your main ZooMoo feed is Latin American Spanish)
 * Clan TV channel (Spain, via SAP)
 * Fix & Foxi TV channel (Africa)
 * StarTimes Kids TV channel (Africa)
 * Knowledge Kids TV channel (Canada)
 * Amazon Prime Video