Titch was a stop-motion children's television programme that originally aired on Children's ITV from 1997 to 2000. Then from 2001 shown on Tiny Living, before appearing on Milkshake in 2006 as Tiny Living went off-air. It was created by Pat Hutchins

Pat Hutchins

- Biography :Hutchins was born on 18 June 1942, the sixth of seven children. A native of Yorkshire, she attended a local art school on scholarship for three years before entering the Leeds College of Art to specialize in illustration. Her first book Rosie's Walk was a 1968 ALA Notable Book. She...

, also the creator of the Titch book series.

Production

According to Pat Hutchins, each episode took three weeks to shoot as it was created in stop-motion animation, using clay models instead of proposed cartoons. The models were miniatures, as ITV gave the animating team a limited budget so that production or scale was minimalistic. There is no known reason why the programme was cancelled, but repeats of the programme aired occasionally until around 2006, when the programme was no longer shown on CITV.

Music and DVD

The music for Titch, and in particular the recognisable theme used in the opening and the closing of each programme, was composed by British pianist Michael Nyman

Michael Nyman

Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...

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The series was issued on several videos in the 1990s, and a single DVD was released in 2006, titled Picnic and Other Stories.