nick jr.-related stories
Posted Oct 15th 2009 11:01AM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Daytime, Animation, Children, Reality-Free

Disclaimer: Children should not take Acid. In fact, no one should sample LSD, but children should really stay away.
That said, speaking theoretically, if kids did drop a soaked sugar cube or six, they would see visions potentially less bizarre than what they take in during an episode of
Yo Gabba Gabba(!). The Nick, Jr. and Noggin show is back this week with new episodes for fascinated children and really high adults.
A lot of kids love it. It's colorful, kinetic, and everybody involved keeps a smile on their face -- even the bizarre anthropomorphized, toys-turned-life size characters -- Muno (red cyclops), Foofa (pinkish bow thing), Brobee (the green monster with no elbows) ), Toodee (the blue cat) and Plex (the yellow, 50s-ish robot).
Continue reading Yo Gabba Gabba! returns to amuse, confuse, terrify kids
Posted Aug 2nd 2006 7:48PM by Chris Thilk
Filed under: Industry, Children

By virtue of the fact that I have both 1) two young boys aged five and under and 2) a bevy of cable channels to choose from, I wind up watching a fair amount of children's programming. Some shows are better than others, and some versions of shows are better than others. For instance, I don't mind
Jo-Jo's Circus but want to tear my ears from my head during
Dora the Explorer. I also could spend an hour laying out my feelings that Steve was by far the superior host of
Blue's Clues.
What I had never really considered, though, was the effectiveness of the logos for each show. Thankfully Jason Spector has
done so. He's looked at factors like design, emotional effectiveness and accurate representation of the show itself when analyzing the logos. For the sake of fairness he's excluded ones for shows like
The Wiggles that contain the characters since they're too straight-forward and can skew things like emotional connection. Go read the
whole thing for yourself.
Posted Jan 20th 2006 2:29PM by Chris Thilk
Filed under: CBS, Programming, Animation

As part of the split between them and Viacom, CBS will
drop the Saturday morning block of programming airing under the "Nick Jr. on CBS" banner. That means no more
repurposing of
Blue's Clues, Dora the Explorer or any other Nick properties. Come fall CBS will partner with
DIC Entertainment for a three-hour block of programs that - and this is the important part - fulfill FCC
requirements for kids shows. DIC currently does this exact same sort of thing for other networks such as Fox and
Tribune Entertainment. Some of the shows included in the block will be
Strawberry Shortcake, Trollz and
others. The programming block will not be re-branded with DIC's name as it was with Nick Jr.