It’s been a very quick turnaround of news for BBC’s reboot to Danger Mouse. Following the announcement of the new show we were given a promotional image and now it seems we’re going to see some character changes for this new vision.
In an interview with British newspaper The Guardian, CBBC Controller Cheyrl Taylor said that, “characters that might have been male in the past will now be female characters”.
Kay Benbow, controller of sister station CBeebies was quoted as saying, “I still feel the default tendency is for there to be a male lead or a male presenter”. She went on to say how they were looking to commission more shows with female lead characters and with their name in the show title in an effort to make females more prominent in their programming.
There is no news on which character(s) will be getting the gender swap.
Original series creator Brian Cosgrove will serve as consultant on the new series of Danger Mouse, which will run for an initial 52 episodes. As yet, there’s no word if David Jason will return to voice Danger Mouse, nor who will take over from the late Terry Scott as his sidekick Penfold. However, both characters will be getting a 21st century revamp, with Danger Mouse’s signature eye-patch being replaced by an “iPatch” containing state of the art technology.
