About a girl from a fantasy universe lining in the UK

Filming has begun on CBBC’s new live action comedy Pickle Storm.

The ten 22-minute episodes revolve around nine-year old Pickle Storm (Kassidi Roberts ) who has to flee her fantasy world of Kleftania – a world of magic, dragons and warriors - and seek refuge in the everyday UK town of Middlington. 

With her mother Lystra, a battle-hardened warrior played by Donna Preston, and her father Hendrick, an eccentric wizard played by Inel Tomlinson, the headstrong and determined Pickle tries her best to settle into life on Earth, or ‘Ee’arth’ as she calls it. 

While Pickle joins the local primary school, Lystra takes a job in a supermarket and Hendrick gets involved in the local community. However, their efforts to blend in are constantly thwarted by over enthusiasm and cultural misunderstandings. 

What’s more Pickle finds she creates uncontrollable and highly random acts of magic with unintended consequences, such as causing a teacher to shrink, making her best friend invisible, turning a sunflower into a monster and producing a snowstorm out of thin air. 

The series was created by comedy writers and producers Dan Gaster, Paul Powell and Will Ing and is being made by their company Black Dog Television.  They previously created the fantasy sitcom Zapped for Dave.

The trio wrote Pickle Storm – which will air on CBBC in 2024 – with Tasha Dhanraj, Hannah George and Lucy Guy

Directed by: Dez McCarthy, Louise Ni Fhiannachta and Eoin Cleland
Produced by: Raymond Lau
Casting by: Carla Stronge Casting and BeeCast
Commissioned for the BBC by: Sarah Muller
Senior commissioning editor: Melissa Hardinge
Commissioning executive: Anita Burgess

Published: 11 Sep 2023