LazyTown is an English-language Icelandic television series made by an international crew and performed by a cast from Iceland, the United States and the United Kingdom. It was created by Magnús Scheving, an aerobics champion who also plays the character Sportacus, and is based upon his stage plays Áfram Latibær! (itself based on a children's book from 1995) and Glanni Glæpur í Latabæ.