Elephant moves into factual

UK animation outfit Elephant Productions, which produced Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, is making a move into the factual arena with three new documentary titles on the development slate.

The move {offers Elephant a wonderful opportunity to diversify our current development slate,{ said the outfit's md Sarah Muller. {Comedy has always been our first love and a documentary approach gives us a fresh and exciting new way of looking at humour and its relevance to society.{

First up is Genius, a project looking at the artist and cartoonist John Glasham; the show is named after Glasham's cartoon strip in the UK broadsheet The Observer between 1978-1983. The show will mix interviews with short animated adaptations of his cartoon strips.

Life in the Farce Lane is a history of farce, based on the books of Lord Brian Rix – father of one of Elephant's founders, kids' author Brian Rix. The TV show will chart the growth of the farce genre from its classical Greek origins to the present day.

The third of the three 60' specials is I, an Actor, based on Nigel Planer's and Christopher Douglas' spoof of thespian pretentiousness.