Zig and Zag (puppets)

Zig and Zag are an Irish puppet duo performed by Mick O'Hara and Ciaran Morrison.

The characters are a pair of furry extraterrestrial twins from the planet Zog. They made their television début on RTÉ's, Dempsey's Den, in 1987. A year later they won a Jacob's Award for TV Personalities of the year. In 1992 Zig and Zag found fame in the UK when they joined the team of the Channel 4 breakfast show The Big Breakfast. During the 1990s the characters spawned a merchandising range of comic books, videos and embarked on a recording career – scoring a UK top five single with "Them Girls Them Girls".

In 2010 the characters saw a resurgence in their popularity as they joined the Big Brother's Little Brother team and in October 2010 they were commissioned to host a flagship Saturday morning radio show on 2FM called Smells Like Saturday. A brand new TV bloopers show hosted by Zig and Zag entitled Zig & Zag's Superbloopers was announced on the RTE TV website in June 2011 with a full series of the show broadcast in September 2012. In April 2015, it was announced that the duo would return in 2016 with a 26 episode animated series commissioned by RTE and the BBC.

Zig and Zag

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Zig and Zag (2016 TV series)

Zig and Zag is a 2016 animated TV series featuring the extraterrestrial puppets Zig and Zag from the planet Zog. It will air on CBBC and RTÉjr in early 2016. Both Zig and Zag reprise the same voices as they originally had, who are also the creators and writers, Ciaran Morrison and Mick O'Hara.

Plot

Alien bro's Zig and Zag crash land in humdrum suburbia and set up home. On their fun filled adventures they 'make the most' of what Planet Earth has to offer. You'll never have neighbours as out-of-this-world as Zig and Zag.

Cast

Production

On April 15, 2015 it was announced that a new animated Zig and Zag series was in production for CBBC. On August 16, 2015 the theme tune by Ricky Wilson and Simon Rix from the band Kaiser Chiefs. It was also announced that it would start in early 2016.

Zig and Zag (Australian performers)

Jack Perry (1917 – c. April 2006) and Doug McKenzie (c. 1917 – 4 August 2004)—were a clown duo from Melbourne who were known and billed professionally as Zig and Zag, who appeared on Australian television from its inception in 1956 to 1999 beginning with Peters Fun Fair. They featured on the annual Moomba parade and were regulars at the Good Friday Appeal for the Royal Children's Hospital.

In March 1999, the duo permanently parted company after it was revealed that Perry had been convicted in 1994 of indecent assault on his granddaughter.

History

Zig and Zag were the clown duo of Jack Perry and Doug McKenzie and began performing together in the 1950s in Melbourne. Before 1939, McKenzie was a junior announcer on Melbourne radio station 3XY. By 1952, he was voicing advertisements dressed as a clown with a young Bert Newton. This led to Zig and Zag regularly appearing on a Saturday morning children's show with Frank Thring. They worked alongside disc jockey Stan Rofe and Newton. In March 1956, they drove a toy car at their first Moomba parade and were crowd favourites at the annual festival. On 10 November, local TV station HSV7 broadcast the first episode of Peters Fun Fair, with the duo as its stars, it was the first children's session televised in Australia. They dressed in costumes advertising Peters Ice Cream, with the slogan, "the health food of a nation", and used the catchphrase "No-o-o trouble". Zig and Zag added their theme song, "You and Me", to their act in the late 1950s. Written by Tommy Steele, it was originally performed by Steele and Jimmy Edwards in the 1958 London pantomime production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. Peters Fun Fair also featured Roy Lyons as Cousin Roy and continued for 13 years.