Yahoo News Bluey: Hamish Blake and Zoë Foster Blake to voice a coterie of dogs in new season
Author Zoë Foster Blake and comedian Hamish Blake will voice a variety of new characters in the latest season of Bluey – including two jack russell terriers whose puppy has attention deficit issues.
The wildly popular show about a six-year-old blue heeler, her four-year-old sister and their creative but exhausted parents will return to the ABC on 17 March for a second 52-episode season. Blue Wiggle Anthony Field will also appear, as a catahoula dog that works at the post office.
Since it first aired in 2018, Bluey has become ABC iView’s most watched program in history and has been picked up by Disney and nominated for an Emmy.
In the upcoming season, Foster Blake and Blake will play the Russells – the mother and father of a young puppy called Jack who “can’t sit still or remember anything”.
Parents welcomed the representation of children with attention deficit issues online after a short clip was shared on Wednesday. One viewer wrote: “I’m going to have two girls who feel very included and normalised thanks to this episode. Can’t wait.”
The celebrity couple will also feature in the new season’s second episode, Hammerbarn, where the family visit a hardware shop. Blake will play a labrador who works as a Hammerbarn employee, and Foster Blake will play a poodle who is a checkout dog.
Field, a founding member of The Wiggles, features in the new season’s debut episode, playing a post office employee who has to deal with Bluey’s dad, Bandit, while he refuses to stop dancing.
The new additions join a voice cast that already includes former Custard frontman Dave McCormack as the voice of Bluey’s dad, actor Melanie Zanetti as Bluey’s mum, Chilli, and regular guest appearances from radio host Myf Warhurst, musician Megan Washington, and surfer Layne Beachley.
Created by Joe Brumm and based on his own experiences raising two daughters, Bluey is produced in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley and explores the idea of unstructured play, in a setting based on Brisbane by Queensland production company Ludo Studios.
