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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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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Nick Jr. has started production on a new animated series for preschoolers. Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! will focus on teaching social skills and self awareness in an imaginative world. Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! stars a curious little creature named Wubbzy and his two pals Widget and Walden who live in the mythical city of Wuzzleburg. The offbeat [...]
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On Monday, January 2nd PBS Kids will debut a new show titled It’s a Big Big World. The show takes place in The World Tree where a number of animals native to the rainforest make their homes. The show uses a mix of puppetry, animatronics, and computer animation called Shadowmation. The educational goals include science [...]
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Disney is updating Winnie the Pooh and will debut a new show My Friends Tigger and Pooh. The show will feature new CG animation and a new character as well. Pooh and Tigger will be joined by a six year old girl. Each episode will revolve around a mystery and the education will focus on [...]
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Noggin has purchased 13 episodes of The Upside Down Show. The new live-action show was developed by The Sesame Workshop and features the Austrailian comedy duo The Umbilical Brothers. Each episode begins as the brothers hand an imaginary remote control to the viewers at home so they can “control” the duo’s physical motion by fast [...]
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On December 9th, Nickelodeon will premiere a special Christmas episode of LazyTown titled LazyTown’s Surprise Santa. I had a chance to screen the episode, so I rounded up my two kids and two nephews to watch it. In the episode, Robbie Rotten finds out that there will be a Christmas Party where Sportacus is the [...]
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Snook the three-toed sloth star of It’s a Big Big World made his debut on PBS Kids. In several snippets we were introduced to all the residents of the World Tree. While it was tough to make any judgements about the show content in such short segments, it was visually appealing. The shadowmation mix of [...]
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PBS today announced a plan to revamp their children’s television offerings. PBS announces a five-year initiative entitled PBS KIDS Next Generation Media, defining the role PBS will play in the changing digital children’s media landscape. Most immediately prescribed by this initiative are a new preschool multi-platform destination and a 24-hour multicast service for early elementary [...]
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PBS Kids will introduce the characters from their newest television show, It’s a Big, Big World during a special programming block on November 25th. As part of PBS Kids It’s a Big, Big Friend Day Clifford and Emily Elizabeth will introduce Snook the sloth, the three-toed star of the new show. The programming block will [...]
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Today’s Boston Globe has a story about a new show coming to PBS in January. The show is called It’s a Big, Big, World, and stars a sloth named Snook. Snook is a puppet who will teach kids about science and geography. It is produced by the creator of Bear in the Big Blue House. [...]
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