The Backyardigans is an animated musical children's television series created by Janice Burgess. The series was written and recorded at Nickelodeon Animation Studio. It centers on five animal neighbors who imagine themselves on fantastic adventures in their backyard. Each episode is set to a different musical genre and features four songs,composed by Evan Lurie with lyrics by McPaul Smith. The Backyardigans' adventures span many different genres and settings. The show's writers took inspiration from action-adventure films,and many episodes are parodies of films.
Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman is an American live-action/animated television series that aired on PBS Kids Go! and is largely targeted toward children ages 6–10. It is a reality-game show hosted by Ruff Ruffman,an animated anthropomorphic dog who dispenses challenges to the show's real-life contestants. The series ran from May 29,2006,to November 4,2010 on PBS across five seasons and 100 episodes,and featured 30 contestants. Although a sixth season was planned,with auditions taking place in January 2010,WGBH announced on June 14,2010 that the series would end due to lack of funding. In June 2008,the series received its first Emmy for Best Original Song for its theme.
Erin Fitzgerald is a Canadian voice actress who provides voice-overs for a number of cartoons,video games and English language dubs of Japanese anime. In animation,she voices Raven Queen in Ever After High and C.A. Cupid in both Monster High and Ever After High. In recent roles she voices Bo and other characters in the American children's educational show Ask the StoryBots on Netflix.
Moira Walley-Beckett is a Canadian television actress,producer,and writer. She was a writer and producer for the AMC drama Breaking Bad and the creator of two television series,Flesh and Bone and Anne with an E.
Aaron Gabriel Ehasz is an American screenwriter and television producer. His body of work primarily consists of animated series,including as head writer and co-executive producer of Avatar:The Last Airbender,although he did serve as a producer on the live-action series The Mullets and Ed. He is also co-founder and CEO of Wonderstorm,and co-creator of the Netflix series The Dragon Prince. He has been involved in the video game industry,having served as creative director at Riot Games.
StoryBots is an American children's media franchise including an educational TV series,books,videos,music,games,classroom activities and the Netflix series Ask the StoryBots.
A Chef's Life was an American documentary-style cooking show created by Cynthia Hill and Vivian Howard. The series was produced by Markay Media and was broadcast by PBS. The series premiered September 7,2013,and its final episode,a series special called The Final Harvest, aired on October 22,2018.
The Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Pre-School Children's Animated Program had been awarded annually between 2013 and 2021. These shows were previously honored in the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program category. In November 2021,it was announced that all Daytime Emmy categories honoring children's programming would be retired in favor of a separate Children's &Family Emmy Awards ceremony that was held starting in 2022.
Tumble Leaf is an American animated series that premiered in 2014 on Amazon Prime Video. It is a stop motion animated series for preschool-aged children and is based on the short film Miro. Created by animator Drew Hodges and stop-motion studio Bix Pix Entertainment,Tumble Leaf features an anthropomorphic blue fox named Fig and his caterpillar friend Stick,along with other residents of the island of Tumble Leaf,helping preschoolers learn basic science lessons through playful examples. Additional regular characters include Maple,Hedge,Pine,Ginkgo,Rutabaga,Zucchini,and Butternut &Squash. Each episode consists of two 11-minute stories with Fig learning the mechanics of various items discovered in a special room on board the abandoned shipwreck where he resides.
The Loud House is an American animated television series created by Chris Savino that premiered on Nickelodeon on May 2,2016. The series revolves around the chaotic everyday life of a boy named Lincoln Loud,who is the middle child and only son in a large family of 11 children. It is set in a fictional town in southeastern Michigan called Royal Woods,based on Savino's hometown of Royal Oak. The series was pitched to the network in 2013 as a two-minute short film entered in the annual Animated Shorts Program. It entered production the following year. The series is based on Savino's own childhood growing up in a large family,and its animation is largely influenced by newspaper comic strips.
True and the Rainbow Kingdom is an animated children's television series produced by Home Plate Entertainment and Guru Studio in collaboration with American artist duo FriendsWithYou and Pharrell Williams' I Am Other. Based on the artwork by FriendsWithYou,it aired on CBC Television in Canada and streamed exclusively on Netflix everywhere else.
Elena of Avalor is an American animated television series created by Craig Gerber that premiered on Disney Channel on July 22,2016,and moved to Disney Junior on July 14,2018. The series features Aimee Carrero as the voice of Elena,Disney's first Latina princess.
Beat Bugs is an animated children's television series,created by Josh Wakely,and produced for Netflix by Grace:A Storytelling Company and Thunderbird Entertainment since 2016. The series is centred around five young anthropomorphised insects who live in an overgrown suburban backyard and learn life lessons while having adventures. Wakely acquired worldwide rights from Sony/ATV Music Publishing to a catalogue of music by the Beatles to feature in the series. The program features versions of songs by the popular rock group,performed by contemporary recording artists and interwoven into the narrative.
Josh Wakely is an Australian director,screenwriter,and producer and the founder of the television and film production company Grace:A Storytelling Company. Wakely is principally engaged in the development and production of feature films and series based on the music publishing catalogues of prominent music artists and genres,including The Beatles,Motown,and Bob Dylan and other artists in the Universal Music Group library of recorded master and publishing catalogues.
Muppet Babies is an American animated television series featuring toddler versions of the Muppets characters that began airing on Disney Junior and Disney Channel on March 23,2018 and is aimed at a target audience of children from aged 4–7. It is a reboot of the original 1984 animated series of the same name. 71 episodes were produced.
A StoryBots Christmas is a children's animated television holiday special based on the characters from the digital educational program StoryBots and the original television series Ask the StoryBots and StoryBots Super Songs. It was created and produced by JibJab Bros. Studios and premiered exclusively on Netflix on December 1,2017. It received six nominations for the 45th Daytime Emmy Awards and won two,including for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program.
The Last Kids on Earth is a children's animated television series,based on the book series of the same name by Max Brallier,that premiered on Netflix on September 17,2019 with a one-hour first season. A ten-episode second season,or "Book 2",titled The Last Kids on Earth and the Zombie Parade,premiered on April 17,2020. The third season also known as "Book 3",was released on October 16,2020 which ended the series on a cliffhanger. An interactive special,subtitled Happy Apocalypse to You,was released on April 6,2021.
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle is an American animated comedy streaming television series produced by DreamWorks Animation Television which is a reboot of the 1959–64 animated television series of the same name. It debuted on May 11,2018,on Amazon Prime Video,being DreamWorks Animation Television's first series to air on a streaming service other than Netflix. Like its preceding spin-off The Mr. Peabody &Sherman Show,animation was outsourced by DHX Media's 2D animation studio in Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada. The second and final half of the series was released on January 11,2019.
Michela Luci is a Canadian actress from Ancaster,Ontario,most noted as the leading role of Dino Dana. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's,Family Viewing or Special Class Program at the 45th Daytime Emmy Awards,and is a two-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018 and the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019. She also portrayed Tabby in the science fiction series Endlings,which premiered on January 5,2020 on CBC Television in Canada and Hulu in the U.S.
Doug Unplugs is an American children's computer-animated television series produced by DreamWorks Animation for Apple TV+. The series is based on the Doug Unplugged children's book series by Dan Yaccarino. The first seven episodes of season one were released on November 13,2020,with the next six episodes released on April 2,2021. The second season premiered on September 17,2021.
