#pbs kids news

[pbskidsnews]

It's the beginning of February, which means PBS advanced schedules have now been put out, up until April. As such, we can look forward to a few new things:

- Wild Kratts: Our Blue & Green World, a new movie, will premiere on April 1st. New episodes will premiere on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th after that, though as of now we have no titles for them.

- Nature Cat's Nature Movie Special Extraordinaire will premiere on April 22. The show ended in January, but will still march on via specials and, of course, reruns.

- Season 15 of Cyberchase will premiere on April 27 with four new episodes. Notably, it's a PBS Kids Family Night premiere, which is rather rare -- the last time they pulled a Family Night premiere was for a few Odd Squad episodes.

As of now, these are the only things. However, as stations who do advanced scheduling play catchup, we may see more stuff unearthed. If I find anything, I'll post it here. And of course, if you find anything, feel free to send it to me! I have been admittedly slacking as of late, so I'm hoping to be a little more timely with this stuff.

Thanks goes to @Peeebs on Twitter for this info, as well as @ari-bat for additional info.

#pbs kids #pbs kids news #wild kratts #nature cat #cyberchase

[serendertothesquad]

Everyone: "HOLY SHIT SUPER WHY'S COMING BACK!"

Me, who keeps tabs on what PBS Kids uploads on their YouTube channel: "Yes yes, I see. I'm glad you're all happy."

(credit for this goes to SCETV and Resine Group)

#serendipity the prophet at work #them uploading a bunch of super why stuff was sus but now i know EXACTLY why nyehehehehe #plus y'know PBS Kids wants to make like a FUCKTON of content in 2023 and 2024 and that means dredging up old IPs to do it #yes that includes odd squad too even though it's not OLD old #pbs kids #super why #pbs kids news

[tumblydove]

@pbskidsnews Season 54 of Sesame Street premieres on November 9th on Max.

Considering the PBS/HBO deal, we will probably see this on PBS Kids between August-September of next year.

Also important to note that this is the second to last season in the giant batch renewal that happened years ago. As of now, the show has not yet been renewed for a 56th season.

#pbs kids #sesame street #pbs kids news #The muppets

[marzipanandminutiae]

was just watching a deep dive on why the 90s AG characters suck and

the American Girl twins of 1999, age 9: we're going to do a cool Spice Girls dance for the New Millenium celebration! it'll be da bomb!

me on December 31, 1999, age 6: MOTHER I MUST RESEARCH THE LOCH NESS MONSTER ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB RIGHT NOW

#Y2K #american girl #genuinely that's what I spent that day doing #I had a New Millenium-themed Cabbage Patch Kid doll? but she wasn't as cool as my big sister's Samantha (with ACCESSORIES!) so #keep in mind I was already a nerdy child who wasn't allowed to watch any non-PBS TV so I may not be representative #but I enjoyed the Girl of Today sections of the AG catalogue and those dolls didn't look like Isabel and Nicki #they looked like. real prepubescent children in the late 1990s

[kaythefloppa]

Wild Kratts: Our Blue and Green World Trailer.

Underneath the cut for those who consider it to be spoilery, but we have a trailer for the one-hour special, Our Blue and Green World, airing April 1st, 2024.

The Kratt brothers disagree on what's better; blue oceans or green forests. Aviva takes on the role of referee to demonstrate how oceans and forests work together to make our living planet, just like Martin and Chris need to keep working together. It's up to the gang to get Martin and Chris back in sync in time to save planet Earth from Zach and Paisley's villainous plans.

This special was first mentioned back in May of 2023 during an interview with Martin Kratt heralding the show's premiere of its 7th season. The original title was Blue and Green: The Living Earth before it was chaned to our Blue and Green World. The episode will feature climates and habitats corresponding with the Kratt's "blue and green." With it, will come the introduction of new Creature Power Suits: The ones we have seen thus far in the trailer are Indri Power, Green Anaconda Power, and Blue Whale Power.

My thoughts:

HOLY SHIT THE BLUE WHALE SUIT

HOLY SHIT THE BLUE WHALE SUIT

HOLY SHIT THE BLUE WHALE SUIT

*calms down.*

Ok but I'm starting to see a weird pattern in the PowerSuits in this season. For some strange reason, they have to retrofit the wearer's mouths to match the ACTUAL anatomy of the animal the suit is based off of. They did it with the Wild Pony and the Mountain Goat Power Suit and both of them were.... ugh. Now they did it with the Blue Whale Suit and to be fair, while I hate that particular feature, it's not enough to make me hate the suit. In fact, I kinda like it more because of how silly it looks (Martin is the perfect person to wear this suit tbh). Still though, I wish they designed it like the Crocodile, Hippo, or Puffin Suit where the giant mouth is simply an attachment that doesn't move while the wearer speaks.

For those who don't know, Indris are the largest species of lemur in the world (alongside Diademed Sifakas). They are the only animals besides humans that can find and use rhythm using "wailing songs" to communicate. They're also critically endangered due to slash and burn of their habitats and poaching for their flesh as delicacies (yeah, very odd that Gourmand isn't here, but I digress). There's an estimate to be less than 10,000 left in the wild and are expected to have a population net decrease by 80% within the next 30 years... yeah, considering that they're endemic to Madagascar, not a very good sign. I didn't even know what an Indri was until reading the article, and if I'm not the only one who had no clue about these guys, it's probably definitely a good sign that they're getting some spotlight in this show.

The Indri Power Suit looks so goofy, but again, something about how silly it looks just makes me appreciate it all the more. I... weirdly expected it to be way bigger like the Puffin Suit, but again that's just me.

I am a huge fan of how they designed the snake-inspired Creature Power Suits in the show. But the Anaconda Creature Power Suit... holy shit.

LOOK AT IT /POS

Look at the markings! Look at the green! Look at the patterns, and the color schemes! Chris FINALLY got a green Creature Power Suit to activate! Our boi won! It's also a pretty clever callback to the Amazon special where Chris met the Anaconda (I really hope the Power Disc for this suit is green because god that would be so aesthetically pleasing).

Ngl, if the old flash games were still on the website, and this was one of the Power Suits I could earn for my character, I'd play it in a heart-beat.

I'm really interested to see the Zach/Paisley team up. This season already started to utilize her better by giving her another solo appearance, and now we're seeing a 1 on 1 team up with her and another villain. I was always gunning for a Paisley/Donita teamup but this works too. They're both very similar characters that can bounce off each other in similar, yet different ways (I actually headcanon that they're related - second cousins to be exact - because of those similarities). The final battle is gonna be kickass.

If you were to tell me without any context at all that this was a screencap from the upcoming WK feature film (that this episode is often mistaken for), I would believe you. Because HOLY SHIT! The linework, the lighting, the hues, AND the shading! I am becoming more and more grateful for the 2-year long hiatus - the animators needed time to cook and they fucking COOKED. For an extended TV episode, this is pretty damn impressive.

People don't talk enough about this, but fun-fact: A lot of the animators of this show had experience working for Disney. Erika Worthylake was one of the artists on this show, doing several beta designs for animals such as wild ponies and salmon sharks. In 2019, she was the lead designer for Anga, one of the new characters in Disney's The Lion Guard (which, much like Wild Kratts, was animated in Toon Boom). Ben Balistreri had collaberated with the Kratt Brothers and Luc Chamberland in 2007 to work on the show's pilot episode, creating several different designs for the animated characters. Ten years later, he became the executive co-producer of Tangled: The Series. Kendal Brouet, who animated A Creature Christmas, worked on The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder in 2022. Just to name a few. It's just a fun little thing that comes up in the back of my mind whenever the topic of WK animation comes up, and this instance of animation is so fucking good that I HAVE to talk about it, because I have MAJOR respect for these guys, and if there were ever moments in the show that remind me "Oh, this slaps," I just remember what these talented artists worked on through the years and it clicks together nicely in my brain.

According to Whrokids, this episode is gonna have a runtime of 58 minutes. I found this screenshot of someone who did far more searching and sleuthing for new episode content (they were the ones who found this trailer actually). I'm not sure how valid this particular screenshot is, but if this is the case, then this will be the longest episode of Wild Kratts in history, and will be the closest thing we get to a Wild Kratts movie (until the actual WK movie is released in theaters).

Fucking. Hyped.

#wild kratts #pbs kids #kratt brothers #martin kratt #chris kratt #wk season 7 #wild kratts fandom #wk #wk chris #wk martin #wild kratts creature powers #blue whales #indri #lemur #animals #I officially have a new reason for living thank you very much #2024 #This better not be an April Fools' prank I stg.

[starmansartstuffs]

is this show dead yet?

#sketch #wordgirl #wordgirl pbs #pbs kids #dr. two brains #grandpa #low-key could be a dilf ngl #commisions open #new to tumblr

[beesgav]

giving Hacker a modern smartphone honestly has a weirder effect than I thought it would

#cyberchase #robot #robots #cyberchase buzz #cyberchase delete #cyberchase hacker #buzz #delete #hacker #pbs kids #digital #art #sketchbook #i am. still learning to draw these characters srry if they look weird #god this is being added a few days after i queued this #but an episode starting with dr phil telling B+D ''your boss is abusive and you need to find new jobs'' #blindsided me so hard

[personinthepalace]

Olympia has grown up!

Anna Cathcart as Agent Olympia in Odd Squad (2016) and Kitty Covey in XO, Kitty (2023)

#she is back to being a lead in her own show!! #I think I might watch this new tv series for her #the plot reminds me of legally blonde #saw the ponytail in the trailer and was like omigod olympia! #anna cathcart #agent olympia #olympia #odd squad #odd squad pbs kids #kitty covey #xo kitty #anna cathcart growth #anna cathcart parallels #posting in the palace #to all the boys i've loved before

[saliosis]

can somebody else but me acknowledge this clip because it's been driving me crazy these past few days

#MR BIG LORE 😭😭😰 #wordgirl #mr big #leslie wordgirl #mr big wordgirl #wordgirl pbs #pbs kids #pbs kids go #wg #wg pbs #sal clips #<- new tag #🤖: by jove you've wrecked my queue!

[evillandscaper]

OH MY GOSH MADE IT JUST IN TIME

#odd squad #odd squad pbs kids #agent olympia #olympia odd squad #agent otis #otis odd squad #HAPPY NEW YEAR #my art

[kofantiktok]

for @heartstevenson, ta-da ! I made a new logo gift for your channel ! So, what do you think ? If you like your new logo for you, you change your new pfp.

#Logo #Gift #pbs kids #new logo

[pbskidsnews]

Behold: our actual first look at the new cast of characters for Season 4 of Odd Squad! We've got a pretty diverse cast here, including what appears to be a new Director (who is very LGBTQ+ coded, lemme tell ya) and a new agent in a new department, among others!

Seems like Sinking Ship Entertainment is officially pinning this as a spinoff of the original Odd Squad show. We'll see how the other prodcos and networks follow suit -- either it'll be a spinoff or it'll be Season 4. We shall see!

This image is of the highest quality and the biggest I could get it. Hence the fade lol. It comes from the October/November 2023 issue of the Kidscreen magazine.

Thanks goes to Vidpro23 on Wikipedia for finding this!

#odd squad #odd squad pbs kids #odd squad season 4 #pbs kids news #pbs kids #odd squad uk

[serendertothesquad]

*deep inhale that's so deep it hurts my entire nasal cavity*

Okay, so while I wait for a response on Twitter for this, can someone tell me WHY the PBS Kids Twitter decided to airdrop THIS new thing on my feed WITHOUT ANY WARNING???

I'd like y'all to bear in mind, we are still in SEPTEMBER and it's pretty damn rare for them to do promotion for ANY new thing this early. I'm not even sure whether this is a short series or if this is a full-on series that was thrown up into a press release and passed through like a silent fart.

Either way, massive respect. They gamed me.

#yes i HAVE googled it #and no nothing comes up #except peep and the big wide world which is great but this is different #watch me get a response on twitter in like 2 hours i'm sorry to those who are moots in both places #but guys seriously this came up in my feed and i'm just wondering if this is a tweet wrongfully scheduled for now #or if this is some BALLSY-ass promotion #anyway uhhhhh it looks cute??? same morals as super why which is VERY sus given the new shorts but i will be tuning in #pbs kids news #pbs kids

[nico-the-overlord]

WHEN THE HELL DID THEY REBOOT SUPER WHY?

#literally no one is gonna care about this #but on pbs kids it’s on #different style and some new girl is there but #WHAT #was one of my childhood’s shows so #super why

[kaythefloppa]

I love how Wild Kratts lies on both ends of the spectrum of cultural relevance; On one end it raised a decade’s worth of an entire generation on biology knowledge, its animal activism inspired a scientist to name an insect after the Kratt Bros, is part of a quarter-century line-up of several different shows which have paved the path for the Kratt Brothers’ cultural impact on of itself, inspired a lot of furries, has a massive online following, and is one of the most top-rated PBS Kids shows to date; On the other end, it’s on a smaller network, is incredibly hard to pirate, is overlooked massively due to being a part of an ‘edutainment‘ channel aimed towards younger kids, has a fandom which, whilst big, can be very hard to find, and overall has less mainstream appeal in comparison to shows like SpongeBob, My Little Pony, or even The Simpsons.

#Wild kratts #wild kratts fandom #kratt brothers #chris kratt #martin kratt #2d kratt brothers #2d Chris kratt #2d martin kratt #pbs kids #pbs kids go #tv shows #Like on one hand you’ll find people call Wild Kratts an underrated gem with more than enough existing evidence to verify that statement #Because yes it IS underrated - Nearly every PBS Kids show is if we’re being real here (the ones that aren’t are G.O.A.T.s like Arthur) #And the average viewer/show-goer won’t even know there’s a fandom #But at the same time this show has had two live performances #It’s won several awards DURING the period where they stopped airing new episodes for two whole years #And have you seen a kid who talks about Thylacines or Draco’s or caracals and hasn’t credited their knowledge of those animals to WK? #Not to mention that roughly decade ago there was a mantis named after the Kratt Brothers because of the impact of their show #How can a show be so undervalued and yet hold such significance in our world? #There’s probably not a straight answer to this but regardless this show still rocks.

[swissshepherd]

Pbskidsic

related to the tv channel pbs kids shows/station in any way! connected to or are a character, one of the locations being a hearthome and anything of the sort!

Not requested by anyone! Simply something I wanted to do for myself

#⚡️ my coined flags! #💥 for the hero! #flags #new flag #pbskids #pbs kids #I’m hoping to meet some pbs kids kin or fans from this! #xenogender #neogender #kin flag #kingender