Noggins is a CG animated series for children aged three to seven. The show uses physical comedy, loveable characters and colourful storytelling to provide simple and coherent answers to a range of sometimes baffling questions.

But rather than telling children what they need to know, the show tries to explain the things they want to know. Why do I get sleepy? Where does electricity come from? Who made up words? And maybe, along the way, the grown-ups will learn something too!

Grandma Lolly is an artist. She's warm and bubbly and loves to draw colourful, exciting pictures of the things she finds most interesting. She works in the shed at the bottom of her garden but she's not alone down there. In a shoe box, on a shelf at the back of the shed, live the Noggins - four adorable little aliens who have come to Earth in their tiny rocket ships to find out everything they can about the planet.

They're a funny bunch, babbling away in their gobbledegook language and spending as much time squabbling and playing silly games as they do trying to complete their mission. Lolly thinks they're brilliant fun and every day she finds herself untangling them from whatever mischief they've gotten themselves into before using all of her wisdom and imagination to answer the curious questions the Noggins always ask.

Fortunately, Lolly is a wonderful storyteller and is always able to turn her answers into funny and fascinating tales. What's more, her pictures come to life and help illustrate the stories with clarity and humour.

Each episode begins with some slapstick silliness from the Noggins which leads to a related question - for instance, crazy antics on a trampoline might prompt the question, ‘Why are some things bouncy?’

Of course only Lolly can understand what the Noggins are saying but she always translates for the audience. Lolly sets about her explanation in the form of a narrative, using the pictures on her easel to illustrate. The pictures magically animate themselves and help tell the story while the Noggins watch and sometimes ask further questions, allowing Lolly to clarify certain points.

At the end the Noggins, who are always delighted to learn something new, excitedly recap the story before hurrying off to play a game based on whatever they’ve discovered that day.

The show is fun, funny, lively and upbeat. The Noggins' aptitude for physical comedy has shades of Shaun the Sheep, Lolly's wisdom and technicolour imagination evoke something of Mary Poppins and the real world learning at the heart of the stories aligns the show with factual programming such as Nina and The Neurons and Grace's Amazing Machines.