There’s good news for fans of Higglytown Heroes. This appeared in an October 12th article in SF Weekly about Wild Brain Inc. (the Higglytown production company):
A year and a half later, Higglytown Heroes premiered on the Disney Channel. Higglytown now draws an audience of tens of millions of preschoolers and their parents every day, and attracts big-name guest voices such as Sharon Stone, Susan Lucci, and Smokey Robinson. Disney recently picked up another 26 half-hour episodes, bringing the total to 52, and began production on a new pilot with Wild Brain. Higglytown is the rare show that entertains and teaches young children, without talking down to them or boring their parents to tears. Wild Brain may not be steeped in traditional kids’ television, but that’s part of Higglytown’s charm.”It doesn’t feel tired — it’s not the same old, ‘Let’s write the birthday party script,’” says Kanter, now a senior VP at the Disney Channel. “[The Wild Brain team members] are really fun, smart, interesting guys who have a definite, slightly offbeat sense of the world and what’s funny.”
The “Higs,” as they are known in our house, have been a part of our morning routine since the show premeiered. However, as happens with most of the preschool shows it has become stale. It isn’t so much the show itself, it’s that a limited number of episodes get shown so often that even the kids get bored. However, with 52 episodes, it will be possible to go a couple months without repeats. I don’t have any information yet on when the shows will debut.
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