Families vie to become the new Simpsons

HEYDIDDLY-HO, your next-door neighbours might soon become the biggest thing since the Simpsons.

A British TV company has been inundated with applications from more than 1,000 families from all over Ireland willing to have their lives laid bare and immortalised in a new cartoon series.

Earlier this month, to celebrate the launch of its new digital cable cartoon channel Nicktoons, TV company Nickelodeon launched a search to find either an Irish or British family to star in their very own cartoon series, based loosely on the success of the Simpsons.