Hop! (Hebrew: !הופ) is an Israeli preschool TV channel. It aired the first to fifth series of Thomas & Friends from it's launch until 2005, and later the fifteenth, seventeenth, twentieth, twenty-second and twenty-third series from September 2013, after Israeli Educational Television stopped airing the series in December 2013, until approximately 2021.
The channel launched on 17 February 2000 and its headquarters are located in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Timeline of Thomas & Friends on Hop!
2000
- 17 February - Hop! is launched.
- Circa 2000 - The first five series premiere on Hop!
2005
- Thomas & Friends stops airing from Hop!
2013
- September - The series returns to Hop! after eight years from its last broadcast there, with the premiere of the fifteenth series.
2015
- 1 November - The seventeenth series premieres on Hop!
2016
- Summer 2016 - Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure, Tale of the Brave and King of the Railway premiere on Hop!
2017
- The twentieth series premieres on Hop!
2018
- Fall 2018 - The twentieth-second series premieres on Hop!
2019
- April - Big World, Big Adventures! premieres on Hop!
- Circa Late 2019 - The twentieth-third series premieres on Hop!
2021
Thomas & Friends stops airing on Hop! permanently.
Trivia
- Thomas & Friends was one of the first non-Israeli shows purchased for broadcast on the Hop! channel.
- The first to fifth series were dubbed at Elrom Studios, while the fifteenth, seventeenth, twentieth, twenty-second and twenty-third series were dubbed at Videofilm International.
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