{{Short description|Welsh children's television series}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{italic title}} '''''Prosiect Z''''' (meaning ''Project Z'') is a Welsh language children's television series broadcast on S4C. It is produced by Boom Cymru<ref name=dailypostrts>{{cite news|author=Joel Leaver |url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/zombie-show-derry-girls-killing-16000560|title=Zombie show, Derry Girls and Killing Eve's Jodie Comer among Royal Television Society Awards winners |work=North Wales Live |date=20 March 2019 |access-date=20 March 2019 }}</ref> and first broadcast on 9 January 2018.<ref name=ukgameshows />
The series follows teams of five children as they try to escape the virus that has turned everyone else into zombies.<ref name=broadcastnow2018>{{cite news|author=Max Goldbart |url=https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/broadcasters/s4c-wins-first-kids-bafta-in-17-years/5134765.article |title=S4C wins first Kids' Bafta in 17 years |work=Broadcast Now |date=26 November 2018 |url-access=registration |access-date=20 March 2019 }}</ref> The teams have to solve puzzles while dodging the zombies ('zeds') who are wandering around the area. Each programme takes place using the children's school as the set. Setting off the school fire alarm gives the teams a chance to crack a code to exit the building.<ref name=ukgameshows>{{cite news|author=Joel Leaver |url=http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Prosiect_Z|title=Prosiect Z |publisher=UK Game Shows |access-date=20 March 2019 }}</ref>
The series won a Children's BAFTA for best entertainment programme, in November 2018, S4C's first Children's BAFTA since 2001.<ref name=broadcastnow2018 />
In March 2019 the programme won a Royal Television Society Award for Best Children's Programme.<ref name=dailypostrts />
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Category:2010s Welsh television series Category:2018 British television series debuts Category:British children's television series Category:S4C original programming Category:Television series about viral outbreaks