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'Good job Gromit, we'll be back for Christmas'
Bo Wilson17.11.08
WALLACE and Gromit are making a comeback this Christmas in a new cartoon announced today.
Following the success of the Oscar-winning film The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, creator Nick Park is bringing the Plasticine inventor and his dog back to television.
A Matter Of Loaf And Death is a return to the 30-minute format of earlier films The Wrong Trousers, A Grand Day Out and A Close Shave, made between 1989 and 1995.
The new film sees the pair open a bakery - Top Bun - only to find a "cereal killer" is targeting all bakers in town. As Wallace is busy wooing a new love interest, Piella Bakewell, it is left to Gromit - who doesn't speak - to uncover the killer.
Park, of Aardman Animations, said: "Over the years the BBC has been incredibly supportive of Wallace And Gromit, this film feels like their homecoming."
Last Of The Summer Wine actor Peter Sallis will return as the voice of Wallace, while Sally Lindsay, who played Shelley Unwin in Coronation Street, will voice Piella.
The film will be on BBC1 over the Christmas period.
