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Tim Bain is a British-Australian writer. He is known for writing comedy, children's and animated series for television. His work has been featured on Nickelodeon, Disney XD, Cartoon Network, CBBC, CBeebies, ABC3, Teletoon and Netflix.
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Bain has written for comedy series including Rove and The Wedge. His children's series include Bob the Builder, Fireman Sam, Go Jetters, PJ Masks, Counterfeit Cat, Boyster, Tooned 50, Digby Dragon, Dennis the Menace and Gnasher, Bottersnikes and Gumbles, The New Adventures of Figaro Pho, Kuu Kuu Harajuku, Winston Steinburger and Sir Dudley Ding-Dong and Get Ace.
Series development
Bain contributed development for two CBeebies series, Numtums and Go Jetters.
Awards
Bain has written for several series that have been nominated for and won international awards. Rove won a Logie for Most Popular Light Entertainment Comedy (2009). Get Ace was nominated for an International Emmy Award (2016)[1] and Dennis the Menace and Gnasher was nominated for a Children's BAFTA (2014). Get Ace and The New Adventures of Figaro Pho were both nominated for ACCTA Awards.
Tooned 50, starring the voices of Alexander Armstrong and Brian Cox, and Formula-1 champions Jenson Button, Emerson Fittipaldi, Mika Häkkinen and Alain Prost, won a Gold Eurobest Award in 2013 and a Gold Lovie Award.
In 2015, Bain was nominated for an Australian Writers Guild Award (AWGIE) for his script "Camp Coppawannastopya" written for ABC3's Winston Steinburger and Sir Dudley Ding-Dong.
Musicals
Bain has written several high school musical-comedies, You’re History!, Lucky, RetroActive and High School Spoof-ical. They are published by Maverick Musicals and have been performed across Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, USA, Japan and South Africa.
Short films
Bain's short animated films Arctic Adventure (2000) and Kidd Kelly (2003) featured the voices of Eric Bana, Sigrid Thornton, John Clarke, Angus Sampson, Dave Hughes, Kim Gyngell and Judith Lucy. They have screened at festivals including the St Kilda Film Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Melbourne International Animation Festival and the Massachusetts Children's Film Festival.