Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese

***Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese*** (French: ***Boy Girl, etc.***) is an animated television series based on an original concept by Jeff Harter and Cloudco Entertainment, and directed by Jérémy Guiter for Season 1 and Matthieu Giner for Season 2. The series is a co-production between Cloudco Entertainment, Universal Television Animation, WatchNext Media, and Kavaleer Productions, and produced with the participation of Canal+, Channel 4, RTÉ and De Agostini Editore S.p.A. The show originally premiered in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 on October 31, 2019, and on Universal Kids on February 14, 2020, in the United States.

The show centers around a boy, a girl, a dog, a cat, a mouse, and a piece of cheese, all respectively named after what they are, who live together. In June 2019, the series was renewed for a second season, ahead of the series premiere.

*Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese* was nominated in the 'Best Animated Kids Series 6+' and 'Best Music' categories at the Irish Animation Awards in 2021, with Baljeet Rai and Henry Gifford nominated for the 'Best Writer' award for the episode *Neighborhood Watchdog*.

## Characters

### Main

* Boy (voiced by Justin Michael) is an anxious teenage boy. He is the oldest and tries to be the most mature of the group, but finds himself at odds with his unique siblings, he also likes Bobbleheads and hanging out with his other five siblings.
* Girl (voiced by Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld) is a rambunctious, rebellious teenage girl. She is close to Boy, but challenges his authority, she has a online friend known as K-Jam in the show, but we never know his/her concept.
* Dog (voiced by Justin Anselmi) is a male German Shepherd/Jack Russell Terrier mix, according to concept art. He is athletic and active, with a slight streak of immaturity. As he is very obedient, he often has trouble refusing orders, especially from Boy, he has a terribly bad habit of scratching.
* Cat (voiced by Erica Schroeder) is a female Turkish van who behaves bizarrely and possesses unique abilities. Apart from the episode “Confession Cat”, Cat rarely ever speaks, let alone meow.
* Mouse (voiced by Abe Goldfarb) is a male mouse. He is intelligent and rational, but often makes really crazy and irrational machines as ways to solve problems.
* Cheese (voiced by Erica Schroeder) is a female anthropomorphic piece of limburger cheese. She is very dramatic and a diva. She enjoys singing, throwing parties and writing fantasy novels.

Many episodes feature minor or one-time characters with voices provided by H.D. Quinn, Laurie Hymes, Samantha Cooper, Ryan Nicolls, Samara Naeymi, Cristina Pitter and Serra Hirsch. Theresa Buchheister was the sole voice director for the English language cast in season 1; Harry Chaskin began directing as well in season 2.

## Production

*Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese* is produced by Cloudco Entertainment in the United States, WatchNext Media in France, and Kavaleer Productions in Ireland. The series is aimed towards children between the ages of 6 and 12. Sophie Yates from Bulldog Licensing explains that “Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese brings together today's kids and tweens and tackles the topic of blended families with humor and fun."

The series was known to have been in production for Universal Kids since 2006. In 2011, Cloudco first filed a trademark for its title. Originally it was to be produced by Cloudco Entertainment along with Mercury Filmworks in Canada, as per an agreement by the Writers' Guild of Canada. The trademark expired in 2014 and was renewed, with Universal Kids intending to air the series as of 2015, but it expired again in 2017.

The first season was produced between September 26, 2018, and February 8, 2020. In June 2019, the series was renewed for a second season. The production of season 2 began in July 2020, with production wrapping up on December 17, 2021.

## Broadcast

*Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese* premiered on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2019, and daily episode premieres continued 19 November. On 14 February 2020, the series premiered on Universal Kids. On 15 June 2020, the second part of series 1 premiered on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. It premiered in France on Canal+ on 23 March 2020.

On 12 June 2021, Yle TV2 began broadcasting the series during the “Galaxi” programming block and as of 9 July 2021, SIC K has been broadcasting the series dubbed into European Portuguese.

In April 2022, Universal+ Latinoamérica announced via social media that *Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese* would be added to their platform for broadcast across Latin America, with a Spanish-language dub. The series was added on 22 April 2022, along with a Brazilian Portuguese dub in addition to the Latin American Spanish dub.