Sesame Workshop (SW), formerly Children's Television Workshop (CTW), is an American non-profit organization which has been responsible for the production of several educational children's programs—including its first and best-known, Sesame Street—that have been televised internationally. Television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and foundation executive Lloyd Morrisett developed with the idea to form an organization to produce Sesame Street, a television series which would help children, especially those from low-income families, prepare for school. They spent two years, from 1966 to 1968, researching, developing, and for the new series. Cooney was named as the Workshop's first executive director, which was termed "one of the most important television developments of the decade".
Noggin was originally a joint venture of Sesame Workshop and Nickelodeon, launched on February 2, 1999, and the early programming included classic episodes of Sesame Street, under the title Sesame Street Unpaved, and 1993-1994 episodes under the title 123 Sesame Street (episodes from 1998 and later were added to this series in 2002), as well as other Sesame Workshop programs, including The Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact, Square One TV, Ghostwriter and Cro. A Noggin original series titled Phred on Your Head Show often featured select Sesame skits as well as some Snick Snacks and several Short Films by Short People, its spin-off The URL with Phred Show featured select episodes of Doug and Cro. Additionally, Noggin was the original broadcaster for Play With Me Sesame. Noggin's originals from Sesame Workshop were its game show Sponk!, and its two preschool shows, Pinky Dinky Doo, and The Upside Down Show. Sesame Workshop even made the originally British Tiny Planets.
The Jim Henson Company held a passive 12.5% stake in Noggin until it was sold, along with Henson's rights to the Sesame Street characters, to Sesame Workshop in 2000. In 2002, Sesame Workshop sold its half to Viacom , and the Sesame Workshop shows were eventually removed from the schedule. After Sesame Workshop left, Noggin still ran their archive programmings until May 2005.
Noggin ended its relationship with Sesame Workshop on September 28, 2009, causing all Sesame Workshop programming to be removed from the schedule.
Noggin also ran a couple of Sesame Street sketches in between shows; one such sketch was "How Crayons are Made." However, the audio was removed, and was replaced by narration from Noggin host Moose A. Moose.
For a time, the rebranded Nick Jr. continued to air Pinky Dinky Doo, a non-Muppet production that was co-produced by Sesame Workshop.
External links[]
| This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The article or pieces of the original article was at Sesame Workshop. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Nickipedia, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License. |