Little ROY is an Irish children's television show, filmed in Cardiff, United Kingdom, which is broadcast by TRTÉ and RTÉ TWO In Ireland, CBBC and CBeebies in the United Kingdom and ABC Kids in Australia. It began and also airs on CBeebies. The show centres on the title character Roy O'Brien, the 5-year-old animated son of a live-action family. The series is a prequel of Roy, another Irish television show which ran from 1 July 2009 to 7 April 2015. Creator of Roy, Alan Shannon, is the series director.