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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A pretty in depth article about the prevalence of music and music videos for preschoolers. It includes information on Jack’s Big Music Show, Laurie Berkner, and They Might Be Giants Noggin keeps music videos simple, with the artist performing on a brightly colored set with only a few props. That keeps kids from falling into [...]
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For those of you looking for Go Diego Go or Backyardigans apparel, the Brown Shoe Co. will have shoes and boots featuring the characters. The line will be available in July during back-to-school season.
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This year marks the 10th anniversary of the premier of Blue’s Clues. Nickelodeon is doing several things to celebrate: Primetime Movie: On September 10th at 7:00pm a Blue’s Clues movie titled Meet Blue’s Baby Brother will air. In the movie Blue’s brother Sprinkles. The movie will feature a melding of Joe & Blue with the [...]
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This week Playhouse Disney is debuting a new interstitial called Feeling Good with JoJo. JoJo and Goliath will lead preschoolers through various stretches and poses in the music filled shorts. Many of the poses are designed to overcome preschool-age fears. The interstitials will air weekdays at 8:55am this week, before moving to their regular timeslots [...]
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DIC Entertainment will begin providing CBS’s Secret Saturday Morning Slumber Party, replacing Nick Jr., which had been providing a two hour Saturday morning programming block to CBS.
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Via Blogging Baby it appears that Elmo will be appearing on Friday night’s episode of Emeril Live. Elmo will be Emeril’s sous chef. The show will air November 4th at 8:00pm on the Food Network, with a repeat showing later at midnight. This is a big week for Elmo. Earlier in the month it was [...]
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There’s good news for fans of Higglytown Heroes. This appeared in an October 12th article in SF Weekly about Wild Brain Inc. (the Higglytown production company): A year and a half later, Higglytown Heroes premiered on the Disney Channel. Higglytown now draws an audience of tens of millions of preschoolers and their parents every day, [...]
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My 2 year old daughter is a huge fan of Lazy Town, and she’s been calling herself Sportacus for the last two months. Now she can get the costume. Nickelodeon is selling costumes of Lazy Town characters Sportacus and Stephanie. The costumes are supposed to be available at Nick.com but they don’t appear to be [...]
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I’m not an expert in developmental psychology. I’m not an expert in television or education either. I am Bill Ferris, the father of a 4 year old son and two year old daughter. As such, I have a pretty good feel for what my kids enjoy, and what parents can tolerate when it comes to [...]
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