It All began With NOOOO IT'S A CLUE!!! - Blue's Clues Turns 25 TODAY

 It's Blue's 25th birthday!

On this day 25 YEARS AGO, Nickelodeon greated a presachool game show about a blue pawprint leading dog named after that color, and a legacy was born.

Since then the Blue's Clues library has grown with six hosts, 12 seasons, three films and over 200+ episodes worldwide. The series has also won and nominated Peabody, Emmys, Parents Choice, TCA and Prix awards among others.

The show was first created in 1996 by Traci Paige Johnson, Todd Kessler and "queen of preschool TV" Angela C. Santomero, the latter of whom would go on to make other preschool classics including Super WHY!, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Creative Galaxies, Wishenpoof! and her latest venture Charlie's Colorforms City. The show was originally hosted by then 23-year old Nashville, Tennessee native Steven Burns now aged 47 who was the OG man who would help us look for clues, skidoo into new worlds and get excited about recieving th boring mail which would have video inside the letters.

The show also caused international acclaim with localized hosts Kevin Duala in the UK, Duarte Gomes in Portugal nd HyunShun Shin in Korea.

In April 2002, Burns left the show and was replaced with then 24-year old Donovan Patton aka Joe, who would later go on to play the voice of Bot, the friendly robot in the hit Nickelodeon math series Team Umizoomi. Burns' departure would later cause one of the mouse craziest rumors of preschool television known to date, the REAL reason of why Burns left was because he didn't want to lose his hair and it kept falling off as he continued to make more episodes.

In May 2004, the original BC series came to an end after 141 episodes. Blue would be getting a more proper voice to talk to the kids in February three months prior in the Season 6 premiere episode "The Legends of the Hdiden Blue Puppy" which would later spark the idea for its spinoff Blue's Room which ran from August 2nd, 2004 to March 29th, 2007 with the first season taking a more Sesame Street or Eureeka's Castle approach of reading classic children's books and co-starring fellow Sesame Street veteran contributor a young Antonio Oriz.

The series also had a mountain of guest star voices including collabs with late greats Ray Charles as G-Clef, Neil Carter as Mother Nature and Jerry Lawrson of The Persuasions as one of the Notes, salsa music performer Gloria Estefan, gospel singer Patti LaBelle, talk show host Rosie O'Donnell (The Ellen DeGeneres Show), Tia and Tamara Mowry (BET's Sister Sister, Disney Channel's Disney's Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra 1997), Amanda Bynes (All That, The Amanda Bynes Show), country music artist Randy Travis as Shoehorn and the recently joined gospel icon Yolanda Adams as the sun and 2010s pop star Meghan Trainor as the Rainbow

The show would also expand into every form of merchandise you can think of - books, toys, videogames, wardrobe, party supplies, live Broadway musical adaptations, appearances at theme parks and even toy and inflatable replicas of the show's signature Handy Dandy Notebook and red Thinking Chair.

Since 2019 after 12 years of hiatus, Blue has once again risen up in the doghouse with the recently successful two-tim Daytime Emmy® Award-nominee reboot Blue's Clues & You! Currently renewed to four seasons and 86 half-hour episodes and releasing all-new episode storylines since last August, this reboot hosted by Disney's Aladdin on Broadway understudy Fillipino-American Joshua Dela Cruz is still doing great and keeping the franchise strong and alive for a whole new generation. Several highlights include the notebook becoming an iPhone, 20 select classic BC episodes remade in pure 16:9 HD widescreen quality and Burns and Patton making constant comebacks and guest star appearances to their beloved show they once left behind.

In celebration of the adorable blue dog's silver year, Nickelodeon has put together the ULTIMATE Blue's Clues fan tribute. The month-long "WOOHOO FOR BLUE!" 25th Anniversary marathon celebration continues through early October.

Among the highlights include a new emotional message from Burns the man who began it all released yesterday talking to the fans and reflecting on how far the show has come since his original 2002 exit from the show. The new music video with all three hosts "You Can't Spell BLUE without YOU" also drops today on Nick Jr.'s social media pages and the official Blue's Clues (& You!) YouTube channel. The final two seasons of the original and the first 12 episodes of the new also bow today on Paramount+, Nickelodeon's recently successful streaming SVOD app/channel which brings all your favorite Nickelodeon, Paramount and ViacomCBS properties together in one place. Pluto TV is also hosting a one night only 24 hour marathon of the best episodes. NOGGIN SVOD is also slated to upload over 20 new games, ebooks and play-along versions of episodes both from and inspired by the series franchise dropping later in September.

Your youngsters can also tune in to the next BC episode "It's YOUR Birthday!" (production code Season 2, episode 18) dropping next Friday at 11am timeslot Friday September 17th, 2021. A storyline dedicated to celebrating the birthdate of YOU, the fans who have been with Steve, Donovan, Josh and Blue since day one.

A huge round of sound and hats off gratitude for the entire team past, present and future who have continued to make the Blues Clues phemonena the everlasting Nick Jr classic game show franchise that it is.

A really big thank you to YOU our fans, our viewers for hanging out with the Blue's Clues team and for all your help today. If it wasn't for your viewership or support, Steve would have NEVER figured out Blue's questions, freak out to the mailtime song or blue skidoo to parrallel universes in the first place. Without your love and compassion for the show, Blue, Dora and PAW Ptrol and everything else on Nickelodeon wouldn't even existed to this very day. and for this, your continuation of figuring out the clues because you're really smart, we are eternally grateful.

Continue watching and loving the Blue's Clues franchise as much fun as we had bringing it to life for you. And remember, as always, "we can do anything that we wanna do".

Best wishes and thank you again.

With much love,
Kyle Bulger
creator of the Daily NOGGIN Blog
the Blue's Clues staff
and everyone at Nickelodeon and ViacomCBS.

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KIds & Grandparents Unite - New Episodes of JoJo & Gran Gran Now Streaming on NOGGIN

 Fresh out of the British ponds, BBC's JoJo & GranGran is back with a whole slew of new episodes now streaming on NOGGIN SVOD. In the second half of the first season, the titular duo go on exotic adventures that take place throughout the autumn and winter.

Episodes include (all episodes titles have "it's time to/for...")
1-23: Autumn Leaves
1-24: Making a Movie
1-25: Building a Den
1-26: Play Soccer
1-27: See the Moon
1-28: MAke Music
1-29: Harvest Vegetables
1-30: VIsit the Dentist
1-31: Birthday Party
1-32: Treasure Hunt
1-33: Halloween
1-34: Christmas
1-35: Ice Skating
1-36: Paint
1-37: Building a Snowman
1-38: Making a Rocketship
1-39: The Nighttime Workers
1-40: Spot the Birds
1-41: Looking After Morty
1-42: Jumble Yard Sale
1-43: Catch That Train
1-44: The Special Visitor

The first season of 44 episodes is complete!
Season 2 coming soon

Cartoonito USA Opening Night Schedule UNVEILED

 Here's the REVEALED schedule for the first day of Cartoonito, the first use of preschool programming on WarnerMedia's Cartoon Network in 14 years on Monday September 13, 2021. The block runs 6a-2p Mon-Fri and 6-8a Sat-Sun.

CARTOONITO USA
FULL LAUNCH SCHEDULE LINEUP
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
06.00am Signon/Startup
06.00am Baby Looney Tunes “Taz in Touland/The Secret Tweets”
06.30am Baby Looney Tunes “Comfort Level/The School Daze”

07.00am Caillou “Making Cookies/Not Afraid Anymore/I HATE VEGETABLES!!!/Feeling Along/Clean Up Your Toys”
07.30am Caillou “Daycare/Join the Circus (SILLY OLD CAR!!!)/Afraid of the Dark/Friends/Visiting the Doctor”
08.00am CITV Pocoyo “Umbrella Umbrellas”
08.30am CITV Pocoyo “Fetch Loula Fetch!/A Little Cloud/A Present for Ellie/Pocoyo's Dance”
09.00am Thomas & Friends 25: All Engines GO! (WATCH IT OR ELSE!!!! >:() S25E01 "A Thomas Promise"
09.30am Thomas & Friends 25: All Engines GO! “License to Deliver”
10.00am CBeebies Bing episode title unknown
10.30am CBeebies Bing episode title unknown
11.00am CITV Pocoyo (rerun)
11.30am CITV Pocoyo (rerun)
12.00pm Caillou (rerun)
12.30pm Caillou (rerun)
01.00pm Mush Mush and the Mushables “Save the Fun Tree”
01.30am Mush Mush and the Mushables “Oh My COMPOST!!!”
02.00pm Signoff/Closedown, Handover to Cartoon Network

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
06.00am Signon/Startup
06.00am Baby Looney Tunes “Things That Go BUGS in the Night/The Creature from the Chocolate Chip Cookies”
06.30am Baby Looney Tunes “CardBORED Box/MaybThe Best Taz Win”
07.00am Caillou "Learn to Drive/Biggest Friends/Colors/Mailing a Letter/Learn to Swim”
07.30am Caillou “Big Brother Caillou: THE BANNED EPISODE/Caillou's Hiding Place”
08.00am CITV Pocoyo “The BIG Sneeze”
08.30am CITV Pocoyo “The Keys to It All/Keeo Going Pocoyo/Sleepy Bird's Surprise/Where's Pocoyo?”
09.00am Thomas & Friends Season 25: All Engines GO! “The Quuet Deliveries”
09.30am Thomas & Friends Season 25: All Engines GO! “A Thomas Promise”
10.00am CBeebies' Bing episode title unknown
10.30am CBeebies' Bing episode title unknown
11.00am CITV Pocoyo (rerun)
11.30am CITV Pocoyo (rerun)
12.00pm Caillou (rerun)
12.30pm Caillou (rerun)
01.00pm Mush Mush and the Mushables “Race the Beast”
01.30pm Mush Mush and the Mushables “Snails Forever!”
02.00pm Signoff/Closedown, Handover to Cartoon Network

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
06.00am Signon/Startup
06.00am Baby Looney Tunes "MINE!!!!/Sylvester the Pester”
06.30am Baby Looney Tunes “Cattaztroohy/The Brave Little Tweety”
07.00am Caillou "Playing Baby/Flies on the Airplane”
07.30am Caillou “Looking for Gilbert/Surprise Breakfast/Missing Socks/Going to Work/The Quarrel”
08.00am CITV Pocoyo “The Little Drummer Boy”
08.30am CITV Pocoyo “The Keys to it All”
09.00am Thomas & Friends Season 25: All Engines GO! "Thomas Blasts Off!”
09.30am Thomas & Friends Season 25: All Engines GO! “The Rules of the Game”
10.00am CBeebies' Bing “Fireworks/Swing”
10.30am CBeebies' Bing “Blocks/Smoothie”
11.00am CITV Pocoyo (rerun)
11.30am CITV Pocoyo (rerun)
12.00pm Caillou (rerun)
12.30pm Caillou (rerun)
01.00pm Mush Mush and the Mushables “Get the Eggs Home”
01.30pm Mush Mush and the Mushables “Fly Chase Fly”
02.00pm Signoff/Closedown, Handover to Cartoon Network

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
06.00am Signon/Startup
06.00am Baby Looney Tunes “The Puddle Olympics/A Lot Like Lola”
06.30am Baby Looney Tunes “Mother’s Day GONE WRONG!/To Tell the Tooth”
07.00am Caillou “The BIG Slide/Walking the Dog/Watching Rosie/Feeling Sick/The Phone Call”
07.30am Caillou “Going Camping/Learning to Skate/Daddy Time”
08.00am CITV Pocoyo “Pato's Mail Service”
08.30am CITV Pocoyo “The Magical Watering Can”
09.00am Thomas & Friends Season 25: All Engines GO! ‘Kana Goes Slow”
09.30am Thomas & Friends Season 25: All Engines GO! “Thomas Blasts Off!”
10.00am CBeebies' Bing “Frog/Shadow”
10.30am CBeebies' Bing ”Fireworks/Swing”
11.00am CITV Pocoyo (rerun)
11.30am CITV Pocoyo (rerun)
12.00pm Caillou (rerun)
12.30pm Caillou (rerun)
01.00pm Mush Mush and the Mushables “Mushlers to the Rescue”
01.30pm Mush Mush and the Mushables “Fool the Forests”
02.00pm Signoff/Closedown, Handover to Cartoon Network

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
06.00am Signon/Startup
06.00am Baby Looney Tunes “Spin Out/The Snow Day”
06.30am Baby Looney Tunes “A Shadow of a Doubt”
07.00am Caillou “The Beach/New Shoes/Snowman/Clown/Special Friends”
07.30am Caillou “Big Kick/Jungle Explorer/The Caillou Show!/Halloween/Picnic”
08.00am CITV Pocoyo “Let's Go Camping”
08.30am CITV Pocoyo “Juggling Balls/Fussy Duck/A Dog's Life/Pocoyo Olympics”
09.00am Thomas & Friends Season 25: All Engines GO! ‘The Wide Delivery/Counting Cows”
09.30am Thomas & Friends Season 25: All Engines GO! “Dragons Run/The Biggest Adventure Club EVER”
10.00am CBeebies' Bing “Freeze Dance/Here We Go!"
10.30am CBeebies' Bing “Blocks/Smoothie”
11.00am CITV Pocoyo "NO! Don't Touch That!"
11.30am CITV Pocoyo "Twinkle Twinkle"
12.00pm Caillou (rerun)
12.30pm Caillou (rerun)
01.00pm Mush Mush and the Mushables “A Frog of a Problem/Stuck in the Mud”
01.30pm Mush Mush and the Mushables “Staff of Wisdom/Ham Trap”
02.00pm Signoff/Closedown, Handover to Cartoon Network

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 18-19, 2021
06.00am Signon/Startup
06.00am Baby Looney Tunes
06.30am Baby Looney Tunes
07.00am YouTube Lucas the Spider: The TV Series
07.30am YouTube Lucas the Spider: The TV Series
08.00am Signoff/Closedown, Handover to Cartoon Netwrok

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
06.00am Signon/Startup
06.00am Care Bears: Unlock the Magic
06.30am Care Bears: Unlock the Magic
07.00am CBeebies' ove Monsters
07.30am YouTube Lucas the Spider: The TV Series
08.00am Signoff/Closedown, Handover to Cartoon Netwrok

Care Bears: Unlock the Magic, CBeebies' Love Monster and YouTube's Lucas the Spider: The TV Series will launch on the network five days later on Saturday September 18, during the block's 6am-8am weekend programming slot.

But that's not all, HBO Max SVOD will be launching Cartoonito too! The 2020 SVOD platform channel will be the exclusive home to new series Little Ellen DeGeneres and Mo Willems' Storytime Shorts! and already existing veterans to the Warner/HBO library including PBS' Sesame Street, HBO's Esme & Roy and season 2 of the HBO Max exclusive hit Sesame Street talk show spinoff The Not Too Late Night Show with Elmo bowing Thursday, September 30th at 3am ET.

Visit cartoonito.com and cartoonnetwork.com for more information
Cartoonito begins in 2 weeks!

NOGGIN September 2021

 Here's what NOGGIN has got cooking this September.

BIG HEARTS WORLD
We are 2/3rds through our Big Heart World campaign. Apologies that we couldn't upload last month's song entry off the BHW Beats album "Use My Ears to Listen" on time. It's currently only available on Nick Jr.'s YouTube (youtube.com/NickJr) but the Noggin VOD team is working hard to fix it.

This month, we're discussing the obvious problem-solving skills. This month's BHW song is "Help Work It Out" thankfully released to digital music platforms on the CORRECT simulcast date.

NEW EPISODES
JoJo & GranGran (Season 1 episodes 23-44)
JoJo and her grandma are back in the second half of the first season. This time, they explore the wonders of the fall and winter including Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations, the three most common holidays in America.

The NOGGINs at Work/Play (episode 5 "Problem-Solving")
In the latest installment of the NOGGINs series, these NOGGIN avatars learn about the confidence and joys of problem solving.

COming to Noggin September 13th, alongside the launch of Cartoonito on Cartoon Network and HBO Max.

Numberblocks (Seasons 3-5, 66 episodes)
These Numberblocks episodes keep dropping by the dozens bucketloads EVERY MONTH so far. The third season launches and this time, we go more deeper into the advanced complex mathematics essential for the K-12th grade elementary school programs including multiplication and division, greater than and less than and equal sums.

Then in he fourth and fifth seasons, you'll learn about counting up to 100 and 1000, 2D and 3D geometry, graphs, classification and subtraction

Tales from the Playground (episode 2 "Katie's Super Slippery Slide Races")
In the second playground story, Katie, Santiago of the Seas and Skye from PAW Patrol tell us the story of the time two people fight over the slide over who would gofirst instead of correctly waiting their turn.

What's the Word? with Run DMC (episode 3 "Hypothesis")
Rev and Daryl back on the mics. This week's What's the Word? rap is about the scientific methods of hypothesis and experimentation.

Tjere are currently 120 episodes of Numberblocks broadcasted and produced. NOGGIN SVOD has been dropping them here in America rather quickly month by month since it was first uploaded in July. Don't keep your expectations high for the fourth batch to come out in September since this NOGGIN content takes years to put together.

What's The Word? with Run DMC (episodes 3-5)
Drop the mic with more WHat's The Word? raps on NOGGIN. This month explore the meanings of hypothesis, poetry and cacaphony.

NEW PLAY-ALONG EPISODES
NOGGIN Learning Missions: Plants Pursuit (v2.0)
Our NOGGIN Learning Missions series installment from April 2020 has been refreshed and revamped with more features and gameplay instructions.

SAY GOODBYE!
Franklin and Friends (2011-2013, 2 seasons of 52 episodes)
We are so saddened to report that after six years on the platform, Franklin and Friends, the 2011 reboot of the beloved 1997 series based on the works of Paulette Borgeois and Brenda Clark will be leaving the platform on Labor Day September 6th. Our contract rights to air this program on Noggin in the USA from Treehouse TV in Canada have expired and it's time to say goodbye. Both Franklin programs are still available to view on iTunes, Google Play and Amazon Prime.