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Looking for a way to settle down the kids and keep them in bed on Christmas Eve? Check out PBS Kids Sprout where they’ll be serving up a Snooze-A-Thon. Starting at 7:00 p.m. and running straight through until 6:00 a.m. on Christmas morning, everything will be quite at Sprout. If you tune in you’ll see Good Night Show host Nina and her sidekick Star sleeping on the set.

Sprout will also air Bob the Builder: A Christmas to Remember featuring Elton John and Crocodile Rock on December 18th at 4:30 p.m.

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Nickelodeon has announced that the teen network The N! and the preschool channel Noggin will split up. They had been sharing the same channel, and flipping from the little kids to older kids at 6pm.

As a parent who has Noggin on while I’m getting dinner ready, I like this move. Sometimes it would switch over at 6pm and I’d look up to see stuff that really a preschooler doesn’t need to be seeing.

It will mean competition for Sprout’s The Goodnight Show as there will be another preschool alternative in the evenings.

A Coming of Age at Nickelodeon: Noggin and the N Will Get Their Own Channels - New York Times

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Melanie Martinez, host of The Good Night Show was fired after she let her bosses know about her work in spoofs called The Technical Virgin. 

PBS kids’ show host gets fired for appearing in raunchy Web video | News.blog | CNET News.com

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PBS Kids Sprout has announced a second season of The Good Night Show. The new season will begin airing in July.
Good Night Show Ordered for Second Season on Sprout

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PBS has partnered with Comcast, Sesame Workshop, and HiT Entertainment to create PBS Sprout. Sprout is round-the-clock preschool programming that seems to be going head to head with Noggin. The biggest difference is that while Noggin switches to teen programming at 6pm, Sprout is preschool 24/7.

Sprout does offer a solid programming block with the HiT Entertainment stable (Bob the Builder, Thomas the Tank Engine, Barney) as well as the Sesame Workshop supplying the shows.

The other big differentiator is that the programs are in 15 minute blocks instead of the customary 30. I know that kids have short attention spans, but I’m not sure why a station would encourage this. Most shows only run about 22 minutes, and on the non-commercial stations such as Noggin that means the shows are pretty quick anyways.

The new station launched on September 26th. I don’t have Comcast or DirectTV so I haven’t seen the channel yet, but other bloggers (and their kids) haven’t been impressed.

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