A place for parents to learn about their preschool children's favorite television shows with news from Playhouse Disney, Noggin, Nick Jr., and PBS Kids.
From the monthly archives:
Any parent that has Noggin is familiar with Laurie Berkner. Between the Move to the Music interstitials and Jack’s Big Music Show, I’m sure I’m not the only one that has been known to hum Victor Vito in the car. Now you can get Laurie Berkner on demand with the release of We’re the Laurie [...]
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A new episode of the Backyardigans will air on March 10th. The episode titled Race Around the World features the Backyardigan crew, well, racing around the world. The episode will air at 10:30am on Nick Jr. The episode will also be available, along with several others, on a DVD titled Backyardigans:Cave Party. The DVD will [...]
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This week Playhouse Disney is debuting a new interstitial called Feeling Good with JoJo. JoJo and Goliath will lead preschoolers through various stretches and poses in the music filled shorts. Many of the poses are designed to overcome preschool-age fears. The interstitials will air weekdays at 8:55am this week, before moving to their regular timeslots [...]
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Just as an FYI, I updated the following episode guides: Little Einsteins Higglytown Heroes It’s a big big world
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The Wonder Pets is the latest preschool television offering from Nick Jr. The Wonder Pets are a guinea pig (Linny), a duckling (Ming-Ming) and a turtle (Tuck), who go on various adventures. The adventures begin when the trio receive a call that a baby animal is in trouble. They then assemble their Flyboat which will [...]
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Nick Jr will premiere their newest series The Wonder Pets on March 3rd with a simulcast on Noggin and Nick Jr. The Wonder Pets is a animated operetta revolving around 3 pets in a preschool classroom. The pets go on adventures to save baby animals in trouble. What is interesting is that Nick Jr. is [...]
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Nickelodeon announced that they will be adding toys for Go Diego Go and The Backyardigans. Go Diego Go While these would have been great to have last Christmas, I guess it’s better late than never. Fischer Price will be offering a line of toys this fall including the Diego’s Animal Rescue Center. Also offered will [...]
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Disney has ordered a second season of Little Einsteins. The show is top rated amongst 2-5 year olds in its time slot, and the top rated show in the Playhouse Disney progamming block. Little Einsteins is produced by Curious Pictures. Other than the Einsteins renewal, things sound quiet for Playhouse Disney going into 2006-2007 with [...]
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The Daytime Emmy Award Nominations were announced, and Discovery Kids and PBS were well represented with two nominations each for Children’s Animated Program and Preschool Children’s Series Children’s animated program: “Arthur,” PBS; “Dora the Explorer,” Nickelodeon; Peep,” Discovery Kids; “Toddworld,” Discovery Kids; “Baby Looney Tunes,” Cartoon Network; “Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks,” PBS. Preschool [...]
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A couple months ago we came across Magic School Bus while looking for something different. After watching the first episode, it quickly became one of my 5 year old son’s favorites. He is a big fan of science and nature, and the stories and settings are very engaging and accessible. For those unfamiliar with the [...]
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