'Wallace and Gromit' returning to TV

Wallace and Gromit are to make a return to TV screens after a break of over ten years.

The plasticine animated pair will be shot for a half-hour show to be broadcast on the BBC late next year.

Wallace and his canine sidekick will be shown with their bakery business thriving and a windmill being added on top of the store to bake bread.

But Gromit gets concerned when 12 of the local bakers disappear in the 'Trouble At Mill' episode, which will be the pair's first TV show since 'A Close Shave' in 1995.

Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park announced the new programme, saying: "I love making films for the cinema, but the production of Chicken Run and Curse Of The Were-Rabbit were virtually back to back and each film took five years to complete.

"'Trouble At Mill' will be so much quicker to make and I can’t wait to get back into production."

Filming will start in Bristol in January.