THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT - MAGIC ROUNDABOUT WIDOW RECEIVES NO ROYALTIES

THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT creator's widow PHYLLIDA LAW is furious she has been cheated out of royalties for the movie adaptation of the cult TV show.

Law's late husband ERIC THOMPSON - who died in 1982 - wrote the script and voiced all six characters in the original BBC children's classic.

But despite the show's success, the veteran actress - also mother of OSCAR-winning star EMMA THOMPSON - will not receive any money for the new film after her husband failed to gain rights to the show.

She says, "There are no loyalties coming in from The Magic Roundabout now and there won't be any from the film, which is puzzling the neighbours.

"They think I'm going to be a millionaire. But there's no money at all."

The big-screen adaptation includes the star voices of KYLIE MINOGUE, SIR IAN McKELLEN and ROBBIE WILLIAMS.