Kids entertainment producer Hit Entertainment will produce the next series of Bob the Builder and Thomas & Friends in CGI, says C21 Media. Thomas will be reworked by Canadian production company Nitrogen, with LA-based SD Entertainment taking up CGI duties on Bob the Builder. The result of 18 months research, Christopher Skala, executive producer and SVP of production and programming for Hit Entertainment, said the new versions did not signal a policy for all Hit properties to be made in CGI, but were intended to improve the emotional connection between the characters and viewers: “We felt it was the right time to refresh and update these loveable characters in CGI and take Bob and Thomas into a new era.”