Iggle Piggle more popular than Troy and Gabriella

If you're the parent of a small child you're probably all too aware of the huge success of Disney's made-for-TV movie, High School Musical. So it may come as something of a surprise to learn that the biggest children's TV spin-off in the UK is not the exploits of Troy and Gabriella, but the pre-school show In The Night Garden.

The Guardian reports that in just five months, the BBC show made more money - £10.8m – from its range of toys, than High School Musical did over the whole of 2007.

BBC Worldwide's director of children's Gill Pritchard told the paper: '2007 was a great year for us, boosted mainly by the runaway success of In the Night Garden…it's a brand that has really captured the imaginative consciousness of parents and pre-schoolers.'

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