Production
Fetch was produced at WGBH Studios in Boston. Seasons were filmed about a year before they air. Season four was the first season to be filmed in High Definition (HD) in 2009. However, WGBH announced that while casting had already been completed, due to a lack of funding, Fetch! was canceled at the end of its fifth season.
The challenges are filmed mostly in Boston and various other parts of the USA, depending on the challenges, during summertime when the children are out of school. The challenges which are shot out on the field are cut documentary-style, very similar to network reality TV shows.
After the Fetchers finish filming the challenges, contestants act in-studio, with the voice of Ruff. Jim Conroy travels to Boston from New York for the two weeks they spend shooting in the studio. The fourth camera simply captures Conroy doing his lines as Ruff in the audio booth. The kids hear him in the studio and he hears their lines/reactions in his headphones. Ruff's lines are the only lines that are scripted out, though he will sometimes ad-lib an answer to a question or comment from a Fetcher. Once the lines are recorded, the show goes into editing. The editors sort the challenges into the show order. Then they are sent to Jim Conroy in New York City, to voice dialog for Ruff's animation. Once that is complete, it is sent back to WGBH where editors place audio clips of the animated characters. Once all of this is done, the episode is sent to global mechanics to animate the show. One out of the four editors have an off-set four-week system in place where one of them is ready to send a cut of a new episode to Vancouver every Friday. This processes takes about 6 months to complete one season of the show.
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