{"id":526067,"date":"2026-04-12T00:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526067\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T00:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:43:08","slug":"new-balamory-series-is-a-love-letter-to-the-original-cast-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526067\/","title":{"rendered":"New Balamory series is a &#8216;love letter to the original&#8217;, cast say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While Agnew and Wilson Nimmo do not give much away about the new series, they confirm there will be new songs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s new songs as well and new takes on the songs because they&#8217;ve been revamped a wee bit to modernise them,&#8221; says Agnew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the pair, they didn&#8217;t need refresher sessions to remember the lyrics of the older songs, which were a defining part of the original series. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Agnew jokes: &#8220;People come up to me and sing my song at me. That&#8217;s lovely and I wouldn&#8217;t change that for the world, but it doesn&#8217;t go away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The programme has been commissioned for two new series, produced by Lion Television Scotland, with 10 episodes in each. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So, there&#8217;s plenty more to the story in Balamory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Balamory is broadcast on CBeebies on Monday 20th April with all10 episodes available on BBC iPlayer the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Agnew and Wilson Nimmo do not give much away about the new series, they confirm there will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-526067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}