Name: Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman
Genre: Kids, Animation
Released: 2006-05-29
Rating: 8
Cast: Jim Conroy

Synopsis

Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, sometimes shortened as Fetch!, is a children's television series for children ages 6â€“12 on PBS during the PBS Kids Go! block of educational programming. It is a game show/reality show that is hosted by an animated anthropomorphic dog named Ruff Ruffman who dispenses challenges to the show's real-life contestants. The series ran for five seasons and 100 episodes from May… 29, 2006 to November 4, 2010 on PBS, with 30 contestants in that time. In June 2010, WGBH announced that the series would end due to lack of funding. In June 2008, the series received its first Emmy for Best Original Song for its theme.

Ruff's lines were the only lines that were scripted out, though he would sometimes ad-lib an answer to a question or comment from a FETCHer.

Then they were sent to Jim Conroy in New York City, to voice the dialog for Ruff's animation.

Once all of this was done, the episode was sent to Global Mechanic to animate the show.

Season 4 was the first season to be filmed in High Definition (HD) in 2009.

The challenges, which were out on the field, are cut documentary-style, very similar to network reality TV shows.

After the FETCHers finished filming the challenges, contestants acted in-studio, with the voice of Ruff.