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Nick Jr.

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Nick Jr. is set to roll out a second season of Nai Hao, Kai-Lan starting the week of May 11th. New episodes will air each weekday that week at 11 a.m. The second season contains 20 episodes that “focus [...]

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Dora controversy

March 7, 2009 · 2 comments

in Nick Jr.

t appears that there is an uproar over the fact that Dora the Explorer is getting a new look. Dora is growing up and going to middle school in a big city, which means she needs to be a sexy pre-teen I suppose. This has people furious. I don’t get it.
By “it” I mean the [...]

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Nick Jr. is set to bring children’s book character Olivia to animated life. The series, which has 26 episodes in its first season, is based on the Olivia series from Ian Falconer.
For those unfamiliar with the books, Olivia is a six year old who believes she can do anything and with her vivid imagination she [...]

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On February 2nd, Nickelodeon will celebrate the 8th day of the Chinese New Year with a primetime premiere of a new episode of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan.
In “Ladybug Festival,” Kai-lan and her friends are hiking through the woods to the big Ladybug Festival.  Tolee knows the way, but Rintoo and Hoho talk so loudly that [...]

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It was a pretty ugly display yesterday as Time Warner and Viacom spent the bulk of New Year’s Eve portraying each other as greedy. But the two sides reached a deal in principle that will allow Dora, Wubbzy, and others to stay on the air for Time Warner Cable customers.

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span>A showdown between Time Warner Cable and Viacom media (the parent company of Nickelodoen, Noggin, and a host of other channels including MTV and Comedy Central) could leave 13 million preschoolers without their daily fix Dora the Explorer. Unless an agreement is reached by midnight tonight, those channels will cease to exist for Time Warner [...]

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Dora the Explorer has a new prime time special, Dora Saves Three Kings Day. This is another Dora cross-over episode where she teams up with Diego. The episode will teach preschoolers about Three Kings Day, also known as El Dia de los Reyes Magos, which celebrates the coming of the three Magi to offer gifts [...]

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A simple round up of all the holiday programming on tap at Noggin, Nick Jr., Playhouse Disney, Sprout, and PBS Kids.

Noggin’s Warm and Fuzzy marathons
Sprout’s Christmas Eve Snooz-a-thon
Sprout: Preschool Musical on a Stick
PBS Kids: New Episodes
Nick Jr. Frosty Friday’s
Playhouse Disney Snow Day Saturday

If you’re interested in getting reminders for new episodes and specials, follow TV [...]

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Nick Jr. has announced their 2008 holiday season slate of shows. It is being branded as Frosty Fridays and the programming block will run from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Fridays starting on December 5th.
The month features the premiere of a new episode of Wow Wow Wubbzy titled A Great and Grumpy Holiday/The Super-Special [...]

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Nick Jr. will premiere a new holiday special: The Wonder Pets! Save the Nutcracker!.
It’s Christmas Eve and a Mouse King emerges from a picture book and steals the Wonder Pets’ Nutcracker from the classroom. Linny the Guinea Pig, Turtle Tuck and Ming-Ming Duckling pursue the Mouse King into the book, dancing through a wintery [...]

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