Janice Burgess, creator of the animated children’s series The Backyardigans, has died. Her death was confirmed by friend and former Gullah Gullah Island head writer Fracaswell Hyman on Instagram. Per ...

TikTok hooks can come from anywhere, whether it’s a beloved piece of dialogue from a movie or film, a song on the top of the Billboard charts, or—in the case of one of its latest success stories—a ...

Several years ago, Shawn Shafner co-directed a play about Jonah in which live beluga whales were used on stage. Yes, beluga whales. Thankfully in tanks. Which were thankfully in the world's largest ...

Janice Burgess, the Nickelodeon executive who created “The Backyardigans,” has died. She was 72. “We are saddened to learn of the passing of one of the great architects of Nick Jr. and creator of the ...

Over a decade after making their debut on TV, The Backyardigans have gone viral… thanks to TikTok. Music from the animated children's television series about a group of anthropomorphic animal pals — ...

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Tyrone, the furry brown moose from the Nick Jr. Show “The Backyardigans,” will be coming to Crossroads Mall this Saturday to greet kids as they do their back-to-school shopping. Area children are ...

Pablo, a creature called a Yeti from the frozen north, leads the Unique, Tasha, and Tyrone on a chase all the way to his igloo in the frozen north. The Yeti loves to eat raisins and give snow bellies.

“The Backyardigans.” Either that means something to you, or it’s a word gone wrong several different ways. If you’re in the former camp, you’re probably either a preschool-age kid or the parent of one ...