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7	''The Adventures of Paddington'' is a Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} cartoon based off the ''Literature/PaddingtonBear'' franchise, specifically the [[Film/Paddington2014 live]]-action [[Film/Paddington2 movies]].
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9	This show stars everyone's favorite Peruvian, marmalade-eating bear, as he [[FramingDevice documents his daily activities and life lessons he learns in letters to his Aunt Lucy]]. Creator/BenWhishaw reprises his role as Paddington from the movies, and new cast members include Creator/MorwennaBanks, Bobby Beynon, Sheena Bhattessa, Darren Boyd, Creator/NoelClarke, Phyllis Logan, Monica Lopera, Sabrina Newton-Fisher, David Schofield, Reece Shearsmith, Liz Sutherland-Lim and Jeremiah Waysome. The show's theme song is sung by Music/GaryBarlow (Music/TakeThat).
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11	''The Adventures of Paddington'' is directed by Adam Shaw and Chris Drew of [=BlueZoo=], and developed for television and written by Jon Foster and James Lamont.
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13	A sneak peek was aired on December 20, 2019 while the show officially premiered on January 20, 2020 on the Creator/NickJr block. You can officially watch an episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OflVzTSaGaU here]].
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15	Not to be confused with ''The Adventures of Paddington Bear'', the [[Creator/CookieJarEntertainment Cinar]] series.
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18	!!''The Adventures of Paddington'' provides examples of:
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20	* TheAce: Mrs Bird can do almost anything other than housekeeping for The Browns family. Such as: playing bagpipes, blowing balloons fast, dancing, lifting big and heavy objects, fixing vehicles and machines, etc.
21	* AdaptationalDiversity: The Browns neighborhood is much more diverse compared to the previous cartoons with more people of color like CanonForeigner Mateo and his mom Sofia who are Afro-Caribbean, as well as Mrs. Pots who is Chinese respectively.
22	* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Inverted. Paddington's backstory of his parents dying in an earthquake[[note]]Or in the movie's case, Uncle Pastuzo[[/note]] is not mentioned in the show, even though it was the whole reason why he came to London in the first place.
23	* AgeLift: Paddington is younger in the show.
24	* AllCGICartoon: The series is animated in a stop-motion-like CGI.
25	* BaitAndSwitch: "As a special treat...we're going to walk on the other side of the road!"
26	* {{Balloonacy}}: Paddington is shown flying with the use of balloons in the theme song.
27	* BlackBeadEyes: Paddington has these sort of eyes.
28	* BlatantLies: In "Paddington and the Stamp", it's clear that Jonathan and Judy don't really enjoy the family walk, and only pretend to.
29	* CanonForeigner: Mateo, the Brown kids' friend, Ms. Potts, the owner of the local theater and Sofia, a cafe owner.
30	* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: A majority of the episode titles follow this format.
31	* ChimneyEntry: In "Paddington Finds A Pigeon", Pigeonton the pigeon comes in through the chimney.
32	* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Bird, who lives with the Brown family and is a mentor of sorts to young Paddington.
33	* DeathGlare: Paddington famously gives a hard stare to anyone or even some animals who are already too much or gone too far. For example: in "Paddington and the Stamp", Paddington gives Mr. Curry one when the latter refuses to help him.
34	* {{Determinator}}: Paddington famously never gives up on anything despite he often ruin things first. Almost everyone ends up thanking him after his determined helps are worked as expected after they initially didn't believe his capabilities.
35	* FramingDevice: The letters that Paddington writes to Aunt Lucy.
36	* HappilyMarried: Mr and Mrs Brown seem to love each other so much and rarely fight or argue.
37	* HiddenDepths:
38	** Mrs. Bird once ran a tropical bird sanctuary in Borneo, which is where she gets her knowledge of bird care from.
39	** Judy is good at gymnastics.
40	** Jonathan can make model rocket ships.
41	** Mr. Brown is an ''amazing'' singer and dancer.
42	** Mr. Curry does Zumba classes with Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Bird.
43	* HollywoodToneDeaf: As shown in "Paddington Finds A Hobby", Paddington is not a good singer at all.
44	* HowWeGotHere: Every episode starts with a scene of Paddington in his bedroom writing to Aunt Lucy over what just happened, and it flashes back to that particular activity.
45	* HypocriticalHumor: Mrs. Brown criticizes her husband on forgetting where he put the tickets for the circus only for Mr. Brown to discover his wife forgot to send his letter for his mother.
46	%%* GrumpyOldMan: Mr. Curry.
47	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All of the episode titles begin with Paddington's name and relate to whatever he does in the episode.
48	* ItsALongStory: Paddington says this word for word in "Paddington and the Stamp."
49	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mr Curry is known to be a typical GrumpyOldMan, but he seems to be grateful when getting helps and apologizes when he sees his errors.
50	* SettingUpdate: Just like the 1989 and 1997 versions which took places during the late 80s and late 90s respectively, the 2020 takes place during the late 2010s. To reflect how diverse London is today compared to the old cartoons, the neighborhood where the Browns live have more people color with the new characters for the show like Mateo whose Black and Ms Potts whose Chinese.
51	* TrademarkFavoriteFood:
52	** Paddington can't live without his orange marmalade sandwich so much that he always keeps it inside his hat or coat as "emergency snacks".
53	** Mrs Bird is fond of sardine.
54	** Mr Curry loves and always stocks pickles, even when he has to move in to the Brown family while his house has to be repaired. He also keeps spams inside his refrigerator.
55	* WalkieTalkieGagOver: Happens in "Paddington Finds A Hobby", Paddington keeps saying "over" while on the walkie talkie.
56	* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Every episode is a flashback.
57	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes:
58	** Mr. Brown is scared of pigeons, snakes, heights and has stage fright.
59	** Mrs Bird seems to have nothing to fear but mice.
60	** Mr Curry is afraid of squirrels.

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