Tales of the Riverbank, sometimes called Hammy Hamster, was a British children's television show developed from a Canadian pilot - though this original series was later broadcast on Canadian and U.S. television, dubbed by Canadian and American actors for the markets they were to be broadcast in. A later remake was produced by YTV and Channel 4 in 1995 which ran for three years, and a feature-length film was made in 2008 using puppets rather than live animals.