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Park goes back to bread and butter films

Wallace and Gromit are going back to basics - with a new film set in a bakery.

After the success of their feature film The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, the pair are to star in a new 30-minute TV film Trouble At' Mill which centres around an escalating murder mystery involving disappearing bakers and a new love interest called Piella Bakewell.

Wallace, naturally, is "dough-eyed" in love. As for the matter of the missing bakers, that is of course referred to as "a matter of loaf and death". The film also features plenty of Wallace's familiar gadgetry. The whole house has been converted into a granary with ovens and robotic kneading arms and everything is covered with a layer of flour.

Creator Nick Park said: "They have built a windmill on top of the house to grind the corn, bake the bread, and with a dough-todoor delivery service."

Then, as ever, love rears its head for the hapless Wallace. "They are out delivering bread and he sees this vision of beauty," said Park.

The film starts shooting in January to be screened on BBC1 around Christmas 2008.

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