Aardman and CITV announce the voice cast for the animation studio’s upcoming CGI comedy series, Lloyd of the Flies, in production at Aardman and set to air on CITV in Fall 2022.
Tom Rosenthal (Friday Night Dinner, Plebs) will voice Lloyd, a housefly and middle child of 453 with plenty to prove. With his best friend Abacus Woodlouse, little sister PB, and eccentric tagalong Cornea Butterfly at his side, Lloyd is all set for misadventure in a family sitcom comedy of entomology.
“Despite the fact that I believe Lloyd of the Flies to be a work of genius and am thrilled to bring these fantastic stories to life, the amount of people who have told me that I do actually sound like a fly has begun to get hurtful,” said Rosenthal.
Lloyd’s best friend Abacus will be voiced by Alex Lawther (The End of the F***ing World, Black Mirror), while Lauren Patel (Everybody’s Talking about Jamie) will take on the role of PB. Teresa Gallagher will play Cornea Butterfly, with Callum Scott Howells (It’s A Sin) voicing Lloyd’s nemesis, Berry.
Pearl Mackie and Rob Rackstraw provide the voices of Lloyd’s parents, Gena and Malcolm. Completing the cast are Ayesha Antoine, voicing Julie and Libby, and Marcel McCalla, who plays Ampersand and Bob.
Lloyd of the Flies is created and directed by Matthew Walker (episode director, Shaun the Sheep: Adventures from Mossy Bottom Farm), winner of a Jury Award at Aspen Shortsfest, Jury Special Mention at Clermont-Ferrand for his film John and Karen and Best Graduation Film at Annecy 2006 for Astronauts. He is joined by co-director and voice director Jane Davies, who has over 25 years animation and directing experience in long form series. Aardman’s Sarah Cox will act as executive creative director.
Seamus Malone (Arthur Christmas, Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death) is animation director, with Tom Parkinson (Shaun the Sheep: Adventures from Mossy Bottom Farm) in the role of script/story advisor. The series editor is Victoria Stevens (A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon). The writing team includes Anna Leong Brophy, Alex Collier, Tasha Dhanraj, Isabel Fay, Mark Oswin and Jen Upton. Black Sheep’s Andrew Barnett Jones and Ciaran Murtagh are script editors on the series.
Using a mix of computer animation and 2D techniques, Lloyd of the Flies is the first CGI series to be produced entirely in-house at Aardman’s headquarters studio in Bristol.
The new series is the flagship project for the government-funded Young Audiences Content Fund (YACF), which is managed by the BFI and supports the creation of distinctive, high-quality content for audiences up to the age of 18. The Fund offers production funding for projects which have secured a broadcast commitment from a U.K. Public Service Broadcaster to make the program available to a U.K. audience on a free-to-access, Ofcom-regulated service. Learn more at www.bfi.org.uk/yacf.
