Green Balloon Club


Green Balloon Club is a BBC children's television program that started on CBeebies on 20 June 2008.

Format

''Green Balloon Club'' (2008–2009)

Green Balloon Club is a wildlife club on CBeebies, both on screen and online.
It is hosted by 4 children: Lily-Rose who loves flowers and plants, Ant whose specialty is minibeasts, Cat who is the animals expert and Jay whose interest is in birds. Together with Skipper the dog and their balloonist, Sky, the children fly around the UK looking out for other Green Balloon Club Members and having a look at what wildlife they have in their patch. Special reporters for the programme are Jelly, Nature Chris and Bill Oddie. The programme was conceived and made by Clare Bradley, Lotte Elwell and the CBeebies Production team, and grew out of their previous award-winning work on CBeebies Springwatch and Autumnwatch.
The show was originally part of the "EcoBeebies" brand. It started with a launch show named Easy Peasy Eco Beebies on 13 June 2008, and this was followed by 48 episodes, one every week from 20 June 2008 to 29 May 2009.
Each episode starts with the children doing the register, then joining in with the "Green Balloon Club" chant. At the end of the show, the balloon "lands" and everybody sings a song.

Green Balloon Club Goes on Holiday (2009)

In 2009, a stand-alone series of 10 episodes was broadcast. The first half featured the Green Team visiting the Isle of Arran and the second half featured the Green Team becoming zookeepers in Belfast Zoo for a week.

Winter Special (2009)

A stand-alone Winter Special was aired in December 2009, which featured the entire cast going on a winter camping adventure.

''Green Balloon Club Scrapbook'' (2010)

In 2010, a spin-off series of 15 episodes entitled "Green Balloon Club Scrapbook" was produced which showed "what the Green Team get up to when they're not in the Green Balloon. Different members of the team check the laptop to find out what the other members of the Green Balloon Club are getting up to". This series also included 2 song specials.

Songs

All the music for the series was written by Paul Moessl and performed by the cast.
The cast were ordinary children all found at extensive auditions. Jake Pratt was the only one of the children who was at drama school. Isabella Blake-Thomas was the youngest at just 5 when she started on the series.

Production team

''Green Balloon Club''

Ratings

Episode viewing figures from BARB.
Episode no.AirdateTotal viewersCBeebies weekly ranking
1
20 June 2008
342,000
7
2
27 June 2008
352,000
2
3
4 July 2008
290,000
4
4
11 July 2008
338,000
9
5
18 July 2008
504,000
1
6
25 July 2008
Under 294,000
Outside Top 10
7
1 August 2008
383,000
1
8
8 August 2008
Under 319,000
Outside Top 10
9
15 August 2008
Under 302,000
Outside Top 10
10
22 August 2008
Under 311,000
Outside Top 10
11
29 August 2008
Under 312,000
Outside Top 10
12
5 September 2008
Under 329,000
Outside Top 10
13
12 September 2008
Under 389,000
Outside Top 10
14
19 September 2008
Under 332,000
Outside Top 10
15
26 September 2008
Under 368,000
Outside Top 10
16
3 October 2008
Under 350,000
Outside Top 10
17
10 October 2008
Under 347,000
Outside Top 10
18
17 October 2008
Under 361,000
Outside Top 10
19
24 October 2008
Under 380,000
Outside Top 10
20
31 October 2008
Under 345,000
Outside Top 10
21
7 November 2008
Under 336,000
Outside Top 10
22
14 November 2008
Under 331,000
Outside Top 10
23
21 November 2008
Under 364,000
Outside Top 10
24
28 November 2008
Under 331,000
Outside Top 10
25
5 December 2008
Under 338,000
Outside Top 10
26
12 December 2008
Under 324,000
Outside Top 10
27
19 December 2008
Under 401,000
Outside Top 10
28
9 January 2009
Under 415,000
Outside Top 10
29
16 January 2009
30
23 January 2009
31
30 January 2009
32
6 February 2009
33
13 February 2009
34
20 February 2009

''Green Balloon Scrapbook''

Note: episode 13 was not shown between episodes 12 and 14, as it was shown within the Christmas schedule

International airings