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PBS Show Arthur featured a segment focused on diabetes. In the live-action segment following a brand new animated Arthur story “Desert Island Dish,” which is about healthy eating habits for children, Corinne tells viewers about glucose monitoring and shows how she uses her insulin pump to manage her type 1 diabetes. She and her friends [...]
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PBS announced the creation of the PBS Kids Next Generation Advisory Board. The group will provide strategic advice on the role that public media will play in providing content to children. Based on advance surveying of the Board, the agenda will include an analysis of media and technology’s impact on children’s education and socialization; an [...]
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PBS Kids has picked up Caillou for a 4th season… The new season also features an all-animated format including music videos and interactive learning segments with Caillou speaking directly to viewers. PBS Kids Renews Caillou Technorati Tags: pbs kids, caillou
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PBS Kids will have a special 2 hour programming block on Earth Day, April 21st. The block will include episodes that show kids how they can make a difference in the environment and help care for the Earth. The following shows will be featured: It’s a Big Big World “Down in the Dumps/Who moved my [...]
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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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Below is a compilation of reviews of It’s a Big Big World: Mainstream Media: The positives St Petersburg Times: Welcome to a brave new world. The reviewer was a fan of the show, and a big fan of Shadowmation. It’s not Sesame Street. It’s not a cartoon. It’s hard to say what it is. Except [...]
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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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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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This fall PBS began airing new episodes of Jay Jay the Jet Plane called Jay Jay’s Mysteries. The shows are actually half-episodes that in my market air paired with an old episode to make the half-hour block. I’d guess that they air as standalone episodes on PBS Sprout though. The new mystery episodes seem to [...]
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