Shaun the Sheep Gets His Own TV Show

What can I say ... I'm a sucker for Aardman animation in general and the work of Nick Park in particular ...

The BBC Children's network has just inked a contract with Aardman Animation to produce a forty episode tv show based on Shaun the Sheep, a character from the Wallace and Gromit cartoons. I'd spotted some rumblings about animator Nick Park doing a series of silent, black and white shorts featuring Shaun over on the Aardman site a while back but based on the official BBC announcement it looks as though this will be something a little more conventional than that original idea ... I'd still like to see those B&W shorts get made, but in my book any Park is good Park.