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I’ve always been obsessed with audio and it’s got me on some huge projects. Voicing the vicious podracer Sebulba in The Phantom Menace was amazing. As a kid, I would build Star Wars sets out of Coke bottles and papier-mache. And there I was on set taking notes from George Lucas. The original 1977 Star Wars is a simple story in many ways. It’s often been noted that it’s the fairytale ‘boy goes off to save princess from the evil wizard and his dark castle’, just transplanted into space, but it works, and it sets the stage for something much larger. comparethemarket.com - NEW MEERKAT MOVIES APP LAUNCHES FOR CINEMA LOVERS". www.comparethemarket.com . Retrieved 1 November 2019. When I was asked to be the voice of a BBC Two daytime quiz show, my initial reaction was: “Oh God, another nail in the coffin of my career.” I had no idea it would turn into this behemoth that paved the way for other quiz shows. The biggest one is probably Pointless. They’ve ridden on our coat-tails ever since.

We started in 2000. One of the reasons it was successful was that it was the only thing on during the Olympics that wasn’t sport. People who can’t stand sport were desperate for something else to watch. I did all 13 years. That’s 1,875 episodes. There were only two I didn’t do: a Eurovision special where they got Terry Wogan, and an Apprentice special which I’ve never understood to this day. In addition to the seven main characters, there have been limited releases of the school teacher Maiya in a spy outfit, and baby Oleg in a safari outfit. [24] [25] In May 2023, another advert showed Carl making soup for Aleksandr and Sergei as thanks for letting him stay with them. However, Carl had misread the recipe book and had put a pint of chilli powder in the soup instead of just a pinch. Sergei eats the soup and collapses, due to the amount of chilli powder in the soup. The advert ends with a worried Aleksandr watching Sergei being taken away in an ambulance whilst Carl reads his recipe book and realises his mistake. Personally, I quite enjoyed it the first time I saw it, but its a film that grows weaker with each re-watch. When doing a Star Wars marathon, I will watch it only for the sake of completeness, and sometimes not at all. In December 2022 when Oleg & Ayana died out, an advert shows Aleksandr & Sergei at an airport to collect Aleksandr’s Australian nephew, Carl, who turns out to be a wombat. A new slogan, "Don't Wombat it, Meerkat it.", debuted along with this advert, with subsequent adverts showing Sergei suffering from various mishaps as a result of Carl's bumbling.a b "Unveiled: Author who ghostwrote a meerkat's memoir". The Independent. 30 October 2010 . Retrieved 17 May 2023. The iconic characters from the first film (Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Princess Leia and of course R2D2 and C3PO) all returned, and were joined by Lando Calrissian and of course Yoda. It was a darker, tenser film than the first one, and it is regarded by many fans as the best of the films. It’s hard to disagree with that feeling.

In April 2023, two new adverts were released. The first was VR, which features Sergei & Carl playing with virtual reality headsets whilst bumping into themselves. The second was Washing Machine, which saw Carl cleaning Aleksandr’s coat in a washing machine. He then takes it out and gives it to Sergei. However, much to Sergei's dismay, the coat had shrunk in the wash. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Star Wars in April 2017, another two new meerkat toys were released featuring Aleksandr in a Luke Skywalker outfit, Sergei in an Obi-Wan Kenobi outfit. From the movie Beauty and the Beast meerkats Oleg as the Beast and Ayana as Belle appeared on the shelves. In the Christmas of 2017 and early 2018, an advert featured Oleg in an BB-8 outfit. All toys were not released again after May 2018, although a toy with Oleg in pyjamas was released in September 2020 based on an advert where Oleg and Ayana won’t go to sleep. Houston, Amy (2 February 2023). "Can a straight-talking skunk make First Direct famous again? Inside its new ad strategy". TheDrum.com . Retrieved 4 November 2023.

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In July 2019, in an advert for Meerkat Meals and Meerkat Movies, Aleksandr and Sergei are in San Francisco where they reunite with Oleg, who along with his friend Ayana, travelled from Africa to look for them after several bulldozers destroyed their home. Leigh, Rob (20 November 2012). "Meerkat mash up! Watch Aleksandr Orlov and pals perform Coronation Street theme tune in YouTube viral smash hit". mirror . Retrieved 10 July 2023.

Wiggins, Dan (13 June 2023). "Thames Water's cute character to rival famous TV meerkats has just made Londoners more furious about leaks". MyLondon . Retrieved 4 November 2023. Monkey, another popular anthropomorphic animal used in British advertising on products such as PG Tips and ITV Digital since 2001. After Oleg and Ayana's return in 2019, a new advert series was shown called Endless Adventures, where the meerkats would walk into a door and find themselves in a movie (which are usually made up ones except for Farmageddon, which was animated by Aardman, and also features Alexander's voice actor Simon Greenall). Furniss, Elliot (5 January 2011). "Video: Idyllic Suffolk village stars in latest compare the meerkat TV advert". Ipswich Star . Retrieved 1 November 2019. The success of the 20th anniversary re-releases of the original films was enough to prompt George Lucas (creator of Star Wars) to re-visit his original plan to make three prequels, that would finally fill in the missing pieces of the saga, explaining how Darth Vader came to be who he was, and how the Empire rose and how the Jedi were destroyed. This new saga began with The Phantom Menace:

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Jones, Peter (22 August 2009). "Meerkat forces? Not good enough - Peter Jones"– via www.theguardian.com.

Soskin, David (1 November 2010). Net Profit: How to Succeed in Digital Business. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0470660812. Since the launch the comparethemeerkat campaign, several other companies have adopted marketing campaigns featuring anthropomorphic animal mascots, often citing the campaign's success as inspiration. This includes Thames Water's Otis The Otter, [19] and First Direct's Skint Skunk. [20] Criticism [ edit ] Because of all the parts I’ve played, I often end up skipping the conventional casting process. People in creature effects just say: “It’s a tall skinny alien – we need Doug Jones.” I was playing the amphibian in the Oscar-winning film The Shape of Water when Star Trek: Discovery approached me. I was actually thinking “I’m not sure how much more rubber and glue I want in my life,” but there was no way I could turn it down. For Saru, I wear a four-piece prosthetic over my head that comes down past my collarbones, with gloves to change my hands. It’s all been moulded to my shape and pre-painted so getting it all glued on is only a two-hour process. I wear a Starfleet uniform like everybody else, but I do have special hoofed boots that add five inches to my height. That makes me about 6ft 8ins! The meerkats were also known as fire rats. [2] In 9 ABY, [4] during their escape from the forces of Imperial warlord Moff Gideon, the bounty hunter Din Djarin and his companions encountered a group of meerkats on the banks of an underground lava river. The meerkats observed the bounty hunter's group as they ferried down the river. [1] Later, an Aqualish retrieved a captured meerkat from a cage with the intention of feeding the creature to their companions. Carasynthia Dune, the human Marshal, interrupted the group before the meal could be prepared, killing the Aqualish gang. The freed meerkat then expressed affection towards Dune which the human responded to by shooing the creature away. The meerkat continued to harass the human until she fed the creature. Dune feed the creature again while discussing joining the New Republic with New Republic officer Carson Teva. [3] Behind the scenes [ ]How Passion created Aleks the billionaire meerkat". Digitalartsonline.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 June 2009 . Retrieved 1 August 2009. Since the launch of Meerkat Movies, only Aleksandr and Sergei regularly appeared in the main television advertisements, though the Meerkovo characters continued to feature in the Coronation Street sponsorship bumpers after 2018. [ citation needed] This was a much better film overall. It wasn’t perfect by any means, and Hayden Christensen’s acting was painful at times, but the characters were more realised, the story more coherent and the film was infinitely more watchable than The Phantom Menace. It also gave us a great ground battle and a great fight in an asteroid field.