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.
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PBS Kids has premiered a new show where kid superheroes inspire preschoolers to embrace literacy and a love of books.
The kids on the show are inspired from famous fairy tales and include:
Whyatt Beanstalk (Jack’s younger brother)
Red of “Little Red Riding Hood†fame
Littlest Pig from “The Three Little Pigsâ€Â
Princess Pea of the classic “The Princess and [...]
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On Monday August 20th Nickelodeon will debut their newest preschool show, Yo Gabba Gabba with a simulcast on Nick Jr. and Noggin at 10:30am.
The show is a different style than the typical Noggin/Nick Jr. fare in that instead of the shows being “stories” each episode is a series of short yet related segments. [...]
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Following on the success and popularity that Dora the Explorer has had in teaching children Spanish, Nick Jr. hopes to do the same for Chinese culture and languages with NI HAO, KAI-LAN.
NI HAO, KAI-LAN is a play-along, think-along series starring Kai-lan Chow, a playful, adventurous preschooler with a big heart, who speaks both [...]
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You may remember a Toot and Puddle holiday special last December. It looks like Noggin has picked up the series. The show is set to debut in fall 2008.
Noggin Gets Toot & Puddle | Animation Magazine
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PBS has announced that Miss Lori and Hooper, who serve as the hosts and educators during the PBS Kids programming block, will be back for a second season.
The second season will include the following:
PBS KIDS is strengthening the preschool setting in season two with new age-appropriate curriculum themes presented in a structured format [...]
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Nickelodeon has announced 2 new series to debut during the 2007-2008 season.
Umizumiz – The curriculum is math based in this animated series about an urban repair squad that helps solve everyday preschool problems in Metro City. The show will air on Noggin.
Bubble Guppies -Is a 3D, CGI-animated variety show set in an underwater classroom. [...]
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Blue’s Clues which recently celebrated it’s 10th anniversary is spinning of a new series, Blue’s Room. Blue’s Room differs from Blue’s Clue in that 1)it is live action, 2)Blue talks. The Blue’s Room format should be familiar to regular Nick Jr/Blue viewers because it has been used for 5 specials.
Joining Blue is her [...]
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Nick Jr. will be getting a new series this fall as today they announced picking up Yo Gabba Gabba!. The series will be a live action magazine style show. Consistent with most new preschool television it will heavily use music.
From the press release:
Yo Gabba Gabba! stars Host DJ Lance Rock (Lance Robertson) who [...]
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Johnny and the Sprites, which has been airing as an interstitial for a little over a year will have it’s first full episode air. The series will premiere on Saturday, January 13th at 10:00am on the Disney Channel. It will be a full block of premieres on Playhouse Disney that day with 2 [...]
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The Upside Down Show is a new live action show debuting on Noggin. It features David Collins and Shane Dundas who are better known as The Umbilical Brothers. The gist of the show is that Shane and David interact with kids who are given a virtual remote control to control the pair’s actions [...]
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