Editing Teletubbies (section)

==Production==
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The show was created by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport after the BBC requested their pitch for a show aimed at preschoolers. Inspired by Davenport's interest in [[astronaut]]s, specifically [[Apollo 11]] and the first [[Moon landing]], as well as their concern about "how children were reacting to the increasingly technological environment of the late 1990s", the two put together a pitch which the BBC picked up.<ref name="Howwemade">{{cite news |last1=Tims |first1=Anna |title=How we made: Teletubbies |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/jun/03/how-we-made-teletubbies |newspaper=The Guardian |date=3 June 2013 |access-date=29 December 2019}}</ref>

Finding a shooting location was a challenge, as they wanted to film the production outside but was unable to locate a place "with a suitable bowl-like dip". They ended up filming on a farm in [[Wimpstone, Warwickshire]],<ref name="ourwarwickshire-org"/> where they had previously shot ''[[Tots TV]]''.<ref name="Howwemade"/> Due to problems with a previous television show shooting at the location, the shooting was protested by the locals, although they calmed down after being assured that "it was a low-key children's programme and no one would be aware of the filming".<ref name="Howwemade"/> After the show took off, though, its popularity caused the land to be overrun by the press. In 2013, due to the continued trespassing, its owner, Rosemary Harding, had the location filled with water and turned into a small pond: "People were jumping fences and crossing cattle fields. We’re glad to see the back of it."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/teletubbies-set-deliberately-flooded-by-owner-to-prevent-tourists-trespassing/29548061.html | title=Teletubbies set deliberately flooded by owner to prevent tourists trespassing | date=3 September 2013 }}</ref>

According to Davenport, the press was particularly interested in getting photos of the actors in their Teletubby costumes without their heads on. Eventually, the team took measures to secure their privacy, including blindfolding visitors coming to the set and creating a tent for the actors to change in secret.<ref name="Howwemade"/>

The artist who originally drew the characters that would become the Teletubbies was the illustrator and caricaturist Jonathan Hills, who also designed digital images for television programmes including ''[[Agatha Christie's Poirot|Poirot]]''.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/08/30/jonathan-hills-artist-drew-figures-became-teletubbies-obituary/ | title=Jonathan Hills, artist who drew the figures that became the Teletubbies – obituary | newspaper=The Telegraph | date=30 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/people-and-business-tubby-rewards-1081599.html | title=People and Business: Tubby rewards | newspaper=[[The Independent]] | date=19 March 1999}}</ref> In 2022 a sample from a collection of original drawings were presented by Hills' widow Lucy on the BBC show ''[[Antiques Roadshow]]''. The collection was valued, by expert [[Mark Hill (antiques expert)|Mark Hill]], at up to £80,000.{{CN|date=April 2024}}