She is also the author and illustrator of numerous picture books, including The Tiger Who Came to Tea, which was first published in 1968 and has since sold more than one million copies worldwide. Judith was born of Jewish origin in Germany in 1923, not an ideal time to be born of Jewish origin in Germany, and the family moved to Britain when she was 10. When I was a smallish child (I have always been quite freakishly tall), I loved this book so much I thought my heart might burst.

Acum stiu si eu de ce e asa indragita Mog de cei mici, pentru ca si eu o indragesc tare, abia astept sa adaug in biblioteca micutului si celelalte titluri care o au ca “vedeta” pe Mog 🥰. Adjoa Andoh’s narration gives exactly the right amount of seasonal sparkle to a script that borrows from other Mog books to round things out. Bridgerton’s Adjoa Andoh will narrate, while The Crown star Claire Foy voices Mog’s owner Mrs Thomas and Benedict Cumberbatch voices her husband, Mr Thomas.

These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. We are on location at Lupus Films, where founders Camilla Deakin and Ruth Fielding, plus director Robin Shaw and the team are hard at work on Channel 4’s follow up to We’re Going On A Bear Hunt, The Snowman and The Snowdog and 2019’s The Tiger Who Came To Tea. Created by Judith Kerr the author/illustrator and based on the antics of her first family cat, the Mog series of books started with Mog the Forgetful Cat, which was first published in 1970 by HarperCollins Children’s Books and has never been out of print. Her timing is fortuitous; one page earlier, Mrs Thomas was stacking logs in the fireplace, preparing to light them.

Gwawr Lloyd, Drama Commissioning Editor at Channel 4 says: “We are utterly delighted to be bringing Mog to screen with our partners. That's what I really like about it, it reminds me of the domesticity of Christmases when I was small, and I think that will chime with a lot of kids when they watch it. I also think it’s crucial to start these conversations and introduce these concepts while children’s brains are still young and malleable.As with many of the recent picture book TV adaptations, Mog‘s makers faced a choice: expand the story, or stick with the original and take things slowly? The first trailer has been released for Agatha Christie adaptation Murder is Easy, produced by Mammoth Screen for the BBC. Now Lupus Films and Channel 4 are bringing this charming Christmas caper to our screens with gorgeous animation and an all-star cast featuring Benedict Cumberbatch, Miriam Margolyes and music from Sophie Ellis-Bextor. It's Mog's first Christmas and chaos has descended on the house leaving Mog very much out in the cold!

Meanwhile, Mog’s purrs and miaows will be provided by Tacy Kneale, Judith Kerr’s daughter, who said ‘Our own Mog was a huge part of my childhood. Maybe I’m just bitter because my childhood tabby cat would never look twice at a boiled egg, and I felt lied to.

The two aunts, voiced by Miriam Margolyes and Maggie Steed, are a bit mad, and the Jolly Uncle (Charlie Higson) has a weird balloon obsession. Juliet Matthews, Colour Publisher, HarperCollins Children’s Books, reveals: “HarperCollins Children’s Books is proud to be the home of all of Judith Kerr’s books. The last time she was on our screens was 2015’s Mog’s Christmas Calamity, a live action Sainsbury’s advert in which Mog inadvertently destroyed a house full of decorations while also setting it on fire. Animated in Kerr's signature style, the trailer shows Mog navigating her busy household, which includes two extra aunts and an uncle staying for the holidays on top of Mr and Mrs Thomas and their two children, Debbie and Nicky.