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“Peppa Pig” has aired for almost 20 years, has won three BAFTA awards, and its official YouTube channel boasts more than 28 million subscribers.
Who hasn’t watched the adorable Peppa Pig in her daily adventures as a curious four-year-old piglet with a doting family? Now the popular British kids’ cartoon has introduced a new storyline with the show’s first same-sex couple, two lesbian polar bears. In an episode that aired this week in the U.K, Penny the Polar Bear tells Peppa Pig at playgroup about her “two mummies” and draws a picture of herself holding hands with them,“I live with my mummy and my other mummy,” Penny the Polar Bear says in the episode called “Families.” She also says that one of them is a doctor.
The move to be more inclusive follows years of calls for more LGBTQ characters on the show, including a petition that started in 2019 and now has 25,000 signatures. “Peppa Pig” has aired for almost 20 years, has won three BAFTA awards, and its officialThe show has been translated into 40 languages and broadcast in more than 180 countries and territories, including Canada and the U.S., according to its production company, Entertainment One.
, where “perfectly Americanized children have adopted British accents from binge-watching” the animated series during the pandemic lockdowns.
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