The Teletubbies are back - after Netflix announced a surprise reboot.
The iconic kids show will return on the streaming service on November 14 this year, four years after it was last on our screens. It had previously ran on the BBC from 1997 until 2001, before it had another run on CBeebies from 2015 to 2018.
News of the return of Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, and Po was confirmed by the streaming giant today, as they announced the iconic kids show would be back - but this time with a new format switch up. There will also be a new narrator, Tituss Burgess.
"Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, and Po are back!" a tweet read on their official social media channels as they confirmed the news much to the delight of fans both young and old, "The Teletubbies and new narrator Tituss Burgess are coming to Netflix on November 14th!"
Fans immediately rushed to the comment section to celebrate the upcoming return of the show.
"I can’t think of anyone I’d rather see narrate the Teletubbies this is amazingggg," one wrote, as a second fan of the programme added: "Yeeeeeey, i was always watching them as a kid, gonna watch them again."
Another fan suggested what could happen in the upcoming series.
They wrote: "Can we have an origin story of how they met, how they exist, why they have a television in their tummy, if anyone of them is gay or bi (I bet Tinky Winky is ace). I have so many question in mind for all my life."
Nikky Smedley - a struggling dancer - recalled to The Mirror how her life changed the moment she bagged the role of much-loved Laa-Laa - the yellow Teletubby, in the show which ran for 365 episodes.
"I don’t think I’ve ever had a job that was so much fun. It changed my life and for six years, we were a real family. I’ll always be Laa-Laa. I still have friends who call me that and I’m ‘Auntie Laa’ to my nieces and nephews," Nikky revealed.
She also detailed how hot the suits got - and how her and her fellow castmates would spend hours in them whilst filming.
Nikky added: "Your skin also needs to breathe. Today you can only be wearing that kind of thing for 20 minutes and you’d have an air break, but we could be in our suits for hours. My skin would crawl. I’d need to get out of there. We all got grumpy."
*The Teletubbies is to premiere on Netflix on November 14.
