Just as man’s best friend is his dog, animation fans’ favorite duo is Wallace and Gromit, the claymation buddies whose misadventures have been amusing audiences since 1989’s A Grand Day Out. A gregarious and goofy inventor and his silent,

Have you seen this chicken?” asked the wanted poster in “The Wrong Trousers,” the first Wallace & Gromit film to win an Academy Award and the debut of Feathers McGraw, felonious penguin and master of disguise—a red rubber glove on his head was enough for Feathers to pass as poultry,

Part of the charm of the “Wallace & Gromit” films is their unabashed Britishness, which the filmmakers have had to fight (politely) to preserve as their audience has become more and more global. While Netflix was largely supportive, they did have a bit of a back and forth over the turn of phrase “Flippin’ Nora!” (They ultimately kept it.)

Wicked, the musical fantasy starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, sings and dances its way onto VOD. That’s not all: actor-director Jesse Eisenberg’s new comedy

The sixth adventure of the Lancashire inventor and his beagle pits them against an old foe, the bandit penguin Feathers McGraw.

Vengeance Most Fowl will be available on BBC iPlayer after its premiere on December 25 and will air again on BBC Two on December 27 at 7.20am. It will then also air on BBC One on New Year’s Day (January 1) at 1:55pm.

Nick Park, co-director and creator of 'Wallace and Gromit,' and Merlin Crossingham, co-director and Aardman's Creative Director, enthuse about the iconic duo's return.

It's been 16 years since the franchise's last short, A Matter of Loaf and Death, and 19 since its first feature film, the Academy Award–winning Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. That's a long time to be apart from two of Britain's greatest treasures.

This film marks the 35th year of their adventures, beginning with the short film “Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out” in 1989, all of them rendered in lovingly detailed stop-motion animation. “Vengeance Most Fowl” is only the second feature-length film,