It's worth mentioning that the New Zealand company actually doing the combination of model work and CGI is Weta Workshop - aka the Peter Jackson company that did SFX work on The Lord of the Rings!
It's a decent kids series similar in tone to the original, and excellently made. I think ITV missed a trick running it in a kids breakfast block alongside the usual cartoons. I reckon there's definitely adult crossover appeal.
Worth checking out if you ever enjoyed Anderson's puppet series from the sixties and seventieth. And if you did enjoy them, there's also a great documentary called Made in Supermarionation that covers the history of these shows. Worth seeking out.
Adam
Apparently Gerry Anderson's designs have been well-preserved all these years, and the Supermarionation classic was revived last year by a New Zealand firm on ITV in Britain... the 'zon popped for four seasons, tho only one has aired there... Wiki on the new series (link), TVWeek report (link)
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Is the Lady Penelope song the closing theme music like the original? I assume that Barry Gray's original opening theme is used in this version.