TV for Tots » Sprout http://www.tvfortots.com 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. Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:41:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Christmas and Holiday Programming Round Up http://www.tvfortots.com/2008/12/christmas-and-holiday-programming-round-up/ http://www.tvfortots.com/2008/12/christmas-and-holiday-programming-round-up/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:45:37 +0000 bill http://www.tvfortots.com/?p=288 A simple round up of all the holiday programming on tap at Noggin, Nick Jr., Playhouse Disney, Sprout, and PBS Kids.

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]]> http://www.tvfortots.com/2008/12/christmas-and-holiday-programming-round-up/feed/ 0 Sprout hosts Christmas Eve Snooz-a-thon http://www.tvfortots.com/2008/12/sprout-hosts-christmas-eve-snooz-a-thon/ http://www.tvfortots.com/2008/12/sprout-hosts-christmas-eve-snooz-a-thon/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:13:19 +0000 bill http://www.tvfortots.com/?p=271 PBS Kids Sprout Nina and Star

PBS Kids Sprout Nina and Star

Sprout will host a Snooz-a-thon on Christmas Eve starting. The programming block will run from 6:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. on Christmas morning.

My first reaction to this news is why would a preschool television station have a special overnight block of programming on a night that all kids are supposed to be sound asleep? After reading the description though it will make a whole lot of sense:

From 6:00 p.m. ET on December 24 straight through to 5:00 a.m. ET Christmas morning, Sprout will air the “Snooze-A-Thon,” an 11-hour, uninterrupted block showcasing popular nighttime host Nina and her puppet sidekick Star from The Good Night Show® snoozing comfortably on the set, along with clips of beloved characters from preschool favorites like Sesame Street®, Dragon Talesâ„¢, The Hoobsâ„¢, Pinguâ„¢ and Berenstain Bearsâ„¢ catching some zzz’s. So, no matter what time of night the kids are up checking for the sound of reindeer hooves on the roof, parents can tune into Sprout to show them that even their favorite television friends are fast asleep waiting for Santa to arrive.

After watching the clip, it had to be Nina’s easiest gig yet.

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Preschool Musical on a Stick

Sprout has created a special programming block focused on holiday music called Preschool Musical on a Stick. It is a 3 hour programming block that will air on December 15th from noon to 3 p.m. ET with encores the following week. To prepare, you can visit the Sprout website to download music and make your own stick puppets.

]]> http://www.tvfortots.com/2008/12/preschool-musical-on-a-stick/feed/ 0 Sprout wants to put your kids to sleep http://www.tvfortots.com/2007/12/sprout-wants-to-put-your-kids-to-sleep/ http://www.tvfortots.com/2007/12/sprout-wants-to-put-your-kids-to-sleep/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:18:37 +0000 bill http://www.tvfortots.com/2007/12/sprout-wants-to-put-your-kids-to-sleep/ 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.

]]> http://www.tvfortots.com/2007/12/sprout-wants-to-put-your-kids-to-sleep/feed/ 0 The N! and Noggin to split http://www.tvfortots.com/2007/09/the-n-and-noggin-to-split/ http://www.tvfortots.com/2007/09/the-n-and-noggin-to-split/#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:40:10 +0000 bill http://www.tvfortots.com/2007/09/the-n-and-noggin-to-split/ 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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PBS kids’ show host gets fired for appearing in raunchy Web video | News.blog | CNET News.com

]]> http://www.tvfortots.com/2006/07/the-good-night-show-host-fired/feed/ 1 New Season of The Good Night Show http://www.tvfortots.com/2006/05/new-season-of-the-good-night-show/ http://www.tvfortots.com/2006/05/new-season-of-the-good-night-show/#comments Fri, 05 May 2006 01:37:01 +0000 bill http://www.tvfortots.com/2006/05/new-season-of-the-good-night-show/ 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

]]> http://www.tvfortots.com/2006/05/new-season-of-the-good-night-show/feed/ 1 PBS Sprout grows mixed reviews http://www.tvfortots.com/2005/10/pbs-sprout-grows-mixed-reviewshtml/ http://www.tvfortots.com/2005/10/pbs-sprout-grows-mixed-reviewshtml/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2005 03:09:00 +0000 bill http://test.tvfortots.com/?p=6 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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