The Jumping Ground (season 1)

The first season of The Jumping Ground, an New Zealand animated television science fiction comedy series, originally aired in New Zealand on TVNZ 2  between January 28 and April 29, 1998. The season was headed by the series creators Lee Eisenhower and Conrad Vernon, who served as executive producers along with co-executive producer Mic Graves. Produced by New Zealand production company Codename 62 Productions in collaboration with Aliance Atlantis Communications, The narrative revolves around four children - PuffPuff Humbert, Rob Broflovski, Lance Patrick, and Zowie Hosker in the fictional Ohio city of Pencaster.

The first season was a ratings success for Showtime. The Nielsen ratings rose from 1.3 to 6.4 from the first to the tenth episode. Several episodes received award nominations, including for a 1998 Emmy Award in the "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)" and a GLAAD Award in the "Outstanding TV – Individual Episode" category for the episode "Thor's Hammer". During the season, The Jumping won a CableACE Award for "Best Animated Series".

The show was a financial success for both TV3 and Showtime. Despite this, critics gave the season mixed reviews. Parents Television Council rated it so offensive that it "shouldn't have been made": "it doesn't just push the envelope; it knocks it off the table", while another critic thought of it as "coming pretty damn close" to being a "perfect" television series season.

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