YOU’/RE FIRED! - Bib Bakish Quits Paramount

 It is with deep sadness and solidations to announce that Paramount;s talented lesader Robert Bakish has retired from the company. He has quit his duties snd stepped down from this [position as Paramount has unveiled s née leadership policy. Brian Robbins will continue as Nickelodeon boss unchanged.

Cartoon Network Kills Off Its Continuity Branding - Primal Screen Animation Studios SHutting Down Next Month

 One of the greatest animation studios of all time,Primal Screen, the team behind the graphics branding and continuity on-air promos for Cartoon Network since 1994, has announced that they will be shutting down.

Primal Screen is set to close its doors by the end of March and is no longer taking new employees or ordering new projects. It's not given specifics on when exactly in May that the stdio will be shut down and demolished.

Thanks for everything you've brought to the animation industry and rest in peace.

R.I.P. Primal Screen Animation Studios
1994-2024

PBS Kids Celebrates 30th Anniversary with Launch of New Retro Channel on Roku

 From the town of PTV Park to the golden age of Dot and Dash, PBS Kids turns 30 years old on Thursday, July 11th and to celebrate, PBS and Roku have joined forces to create an all-new PBS children's network dedicated to both the young and the young at heart.

Launching today on the Roku app and Roku TV channels, the all-new PBS Kids Retro channel offers a special catalog of over 55 years of classic quality children's television made possible by the United States Department of Education, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's PBS Kids Ready to Learn television cooperative agreement grant, and of course, by contributions to your local PBS and PBS Kids stations from Viewers Like You. Thank You!

At launch, PBS Kids Retro will have five classic PBS Kids shows available to revisit both for millennial fans and for their newly born offspring, including every single episode of their very first series that the PBS Kids network has ever made, Mister Fred Rogers' Neighborhood (1968-2001), the first twelve seasons Model Era of Thomas & Friends (1984-present), which since then has gotten its episodes owned, distributed and broadcasted by Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Netflix, Reading Rainbow hosted by the cool factors of LeVar Burton (1983-2006) and the other two series from the Kratt Brothers' catalog, including Zoboomafoo (1999-2001) and their one-hit wonder Kratts' Creatures (1996).

Other classic shows from the PBS Kids library including Barney & Friends (1988-present) with its upcoming reboot Barney's World set to be released on Cartoonito later this year, the first 33 seasons and 4,000 episodes of Sesame Street (1969-present) cuurently in its 54th-55th seasons on Cartoon Network and Max, Shari Lewis' Lamb Chop's Play-Along franchise (1992-1999), The Puzzle Place (1995-1998), BBC's UK port The Noddy Shop (1998-1999) and the Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? game show collection (1991-1997) starring Tony-winning late great Lynne Thigpen of Disney Channel's preschool pioneer hit Playhouse Disney/Disney Junior series Jim Henson's Bear in the Big Blue House are also set to be available on the service in the coming months.

Australian Advertising Clickbait - Bluey Cancelled AFter Three Seasons, Wraps Production Despite Hiatus Statement

 It seems like all good things come to an end as one of the #1 modern 2D-animated preschool series of all time, Australian-based Bluey from ABC for Kids/Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CBeebies BBC Studios Worldwide and The Walt Disney Company is no more. The show has recently been getting less airtime across Disney Channel and Disney Junior and for good reason too. Earlier this month, Bluey has aired what could be the last ever episodes "The Sign" and "Surprise".

In the hour-long series finale, first in the 28-minute mini-movie special "The Sign" which premiered on Sunday, April 14th (production code #351), Bluey, Bandit and their Heeler family are in some sticky situation of Joe Biden/Gordon Brown budget inflation trouble where they are quarreling over the decision of whether or not to sell their house and move on with their stupid dog lives. Then in the epilogue story "Surprise" which premiered earlier this week on Sunday, April 21st (production code #352, series finale), the title character grows up into an adult caricature of himself and gives birth to his own child puppy of his own, named Noah, presumably leaking a spinoff series of sorts.

After airing for over six years and around 78 episodes of around 56 short 7-minute stories, it seems like the television heaven has come for this cartoon dog family from down under. Back in late October 2023, the show's creators and company execs had announced that the show would be taking a break between season three and four, but so far, there are currently no plans by ABC iView to make a fourth season.

It seems the announcement has been outdated and the show has been cancelled because of the announcement of an indefinite hiatus. This proves once again of how stupid some TV production crews are about being big fat liars of false advertising and lying to their audiences. Whenever a TV crew says that the show is going on hiatus or taking a break, it means the series is indeed automatically cancelled.

Case in point: UK-based ITV1's Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway had recently been killed off the air for good for the third time around following the climax of the 23rd season earlier this month, with no plans to make a 24th season or to bring the show back at all whatsoever.

So as the sun sets on this Australian Peppa Pig ripoff bootleg that has stood the test of time alongside the likes of the Osbourne family, The Wiggles, Play School, Delta Goodrum, Kylie Minogue and Hi-5, the entire Disney staff wants to give a big thanks and congratulations to Joel Brumm and all the team who made this cartoon happened over the years, that has since gone on to be an RIAA and ARIA gold and platinum award-winning bestsellers success.

Thank you for the joy you've brought to the world and rest in peace.

R.I.P. Bluey
Monday October 1, 2018-Sunday April 21, 2024
You will be deeply missed :(

Laurie Berkner Releases Official Soundtrack Album for Razor & Tie's "We Are.... The Laurie Berkner Band!" 2006 DVD

 In the later autumn of 2006, Laurie Berkner's self-produced band had their last gig with their original bassist Brian Muller, when their 2006 video release "We Are.... The Laurie Berkner Band!" originally hit the DVD stores shelves furnished by Razor & Tie Entertainment. Now 18 years later and after a whopper of a only five-track CD companion, the now 27-year-old catalog of the queen of preschool music back in the late '90s to early 2010s has made the CD version real.

Berkner's labels Razor & Tie and Two Tomatoes Records LLC. along with her newer distributor Concord Records have joined forces with Kidz Bop, the worst children's pop culture ripoff artist of all time, to make a new CD version of the award-winning 2006 video released that has been loved and endured by generations of kids who have frew up listening to her music and watching her award-winning music videos across Nickelodeon, Cartoon Netwrok, PBS Kids Sprout and Universal Kids.

Track listing
01. I'm Gonna Catch You (from Under A Shady Tree 2002)
)2. We Are The Dinosaurs, the song that began it all (from Whaddya Think of That? 1997)
03. Victor VIto and Freddie Vassco (from Victor Vito 1999)
04. Walk Along the River (original recording, later re-recorded for Rocketship Run 2008)
05. Under A Shady Tree, You and Me (from Under A Shady Tree 2002)
06. Bumblebee Buzz Buzz (from Buzz Buzz 1998)
07. Oh Sussanah, with lead vocals by Brian Muller (from Victor Vito 1999)
08. The Goldfish, Let's Go Swimming (from Victor Vito 1999)
09. Pig on Her Head (from Buzz Buzz 1998)
10. Moon Moon Moon (from Victor Vito 1999)
11. Telephone (from Buzz Buzz 1998)
12. I Know a Chicken (from Whaddya Think of That? 1997)
13. I'm A Mess! (from Buzz Buzz 1998)
14. The Happiest Song I Know (original 2006 recording)

Remix Songs At An Alltime Low - The Wiggles Release First EDM Album

 After outraging their fans with their terrible Baby Shark crossover, it seems as if the greatest preschool music artist band of all time from down under have ripped them off once again. The world's #1 preschool band The Wiggles has released their first ever EDM dance remix rave album and it took them 33 years of their own catalog to do so.

The new album, dubbed The Wiggles Sound System: Rave of Innocence features a whole slew of the band's catalog of both classic and modewrn hits with a cringy EDM dance remix rave party version of their innocent children's songs that nobody asked for. A majority of these remixes include newer vocal recordings from Greg Page, who quit the band twice in 2006 and 2013.

Track listing
01. Do The Monkey Dance (from Yummy Yummy 1994)
02. Rock-a-Bye Your Bear (from The Wiggles 1991/Wiggle Time! 1993/1998)
03. Hot Potatoes (from Yummy Yummy 1994)
04. Row, Row, Row Your Boat (from Racing to the Rainbow 2006)
05. Henry the Octopus (from Here COmes a Song 1992/Wiggle TIme! 1993/1998)
06. Bingo (from Nursery Rhymes 2 2018)
07. The Alphabet ABCs Song (from Apples and Bananas 2014)
08. Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car (from Toot Toot! 1998)
09. Fruit Salad, YUmmy Yummy (from Wiggle Time! 1993/Yummy Yummy 1994/1998)
10. Bouncing Balls (from Hot Potatoes!: The Best of The Wiggles 2023 documentary edition)
11. Five Little Ducks (from It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! 1996/2006)
12. Wags the Dog, He Likes to Tango (from Toot Toot! 1998)
13. PINKFONG Baby Shark ft. Kimiko Glenn and Luke Youngblood (from Fun & Games 2020)
14. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (from Splish Splash Big Red Boat 2006/Pop Goes THe Wiggles 2007)

The Wiggles are Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Evie Ferris, Anthony & Lucia Field, Lachlan Gillespie, Kelly Hamilton, Tsehay Hawkins, Caterina Mete, Sam Moran, Greg Page, John Pearce, Simon Pryce, Emma Watkins and Phillip Wilcher
Captain Feathersword: Paul Paddick
Produced & Directed by Paul Field
Music Produced by Anthony Field
Music Arranged by The Wiggles and Dominic Lindsay
Choreographer: Caterina Mete
Director of Photography: Aaron Hills

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First released and manufactured in 204 distributed by Village Roadshow Entertainment
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Preschool TV En Espanol - Nickelodeon and Paramount+ Launch Dora the Explorer Reboot

 America's favorite millennial Spanish kids TV icon Dora the Explorer is back in the newest CGI animated offering of kids television from Paramount+ and Nick Jr. The all-new series Dora: Say Hola to Adventure! launched on Friday morning with 13 all-new episodes.

The new series once again follows Dora, Boots and their rainforest animals on more adventures in their local environment along with the aid of her talking map and backpack and that sneaky fox Swiper, voiced once again by Marc Weiner (Weinerville) along with her new parents Mami (Kathleen Herles) and Papi (Michael Smith Rivera). Along the way, Dora introduces words and phrases in Spanish to USA viewers and in English to international markets around the world.

The first two episodes "Tres Leches Trouble/Wizzle Wazzle Woo" and "The Magic Nuts/Rainforest Ritmo" were leaked on the franchise's YouTube channel on September 30th and October 14th respectively.

Episodes include
9-01: Tres Leches Trouble/Wizzle Wazzle Woo
9-02: The Magic Nuts/Rainforest Ritmo
9-03: Catch That Quickatoo/The Lost Losito
9-04: Rainbow's Lost Colors/Boots' Rubberband Ball
9-05: The Alebrije Adventure/Let's Get a Paleta
9-06: Wake Up Big Red Chicken!!!/The Mysterious Gifts
9-07: Dora's Friendaversary Adventures/Swiper's Birthday Surprise
9-08: The Little Axolot/Bubble Trouble
9-09: Tiny Dancers/The Sleepy Sun
9-10: CROC-a-Bye Baby/Wanna Espamanda?/If The Boot Fits, Wear It!/Dora's Pinata Party!
9-11; Tico and Bip Bip's Big Show!/The Wonky Wishing Wand
9-12: A Guayabera for Tico/Falling Estrellas
9-13: Crabby Boots/Papi's Picnic Party

Now for some stupid reason, Paramount+ and other streaming services have the idiocracy to split the season of their original SVOD TV shows into smaller chunks and put into three smaller batches released in later parts of the year. So unfortunately, you're gonna have to wait until Hispanic Heritage Month for the second half of the episodes to be released.

Dora the Explorer: Say Hola to Adventure! is the recent of classic properties to jump onto the all reboots and no original ideas allowed train, among the likes of Blue's Clues & You! which is set to be cancelled after the fifth season, Franklin & Friends, Face's Music Party and the upcoming Apple TV+ reboot series Yo Gabba Gabba!land, the latter of which set to release on August 9th this year.