Andrew Davenport (born 10 June 1965) is an English writer, puppeteer, producer, composer and actor, specialising in creating television, music and books for young children. He is known as co-creator and writer of Teletubbies and creator, writer and composer of both In the Night Garden... and Moon and Me.
Davenport co-created Teletubbies[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] (first broadcast in the UK in 1997) with Anne Wood, and wrote all of the 365 episodes.[12][1][5] He created In the Night Garden...[2][3] (first broadcast in the UK in 2007), wrote all of the 100 episodes 30-minute episodes,[13][5][8][7] and composed the title theme and music for the series.[14][15] In 2019, Davenport created Moon and Me.[16][8][17][18][6] He wrote all 50 episodes and composed all the music for the series.[8][12]
Davenport has been dubbed "the J. K. Rowling of the under fives"[1][8] and "the king of kid's TV"[10] following the extraordinary international success of Teletubbies and In the Night Garden.... His success with the preschool audience has been credited to "incredible instinct and a lot of painstaking research" and a "slightly terrifying insight into these unknowable little minds".[9]
Davenport references child developmental science in the creation of his shows[9][10][12] and has described his process as to "engage minds and feed imaginations with the unfailing power of characters and worlds forged with kindness and playfulness".[16]
In March 2012, Andrew Davenport became CEO of Shine Group's children's venture focusing on creating both traditional and interactive content for children, initially for the pre-school market.[4]
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