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Returning: Sesame Street
Many readers would remember Sesame Street’s 40th birthday celebrations last November, with US First Lady Michelle Obama making an appearance on the show.
This episode will now air in Australia at 8.30am Monday February 1st on ABC For Kids (correction ABC1).
Series 40 focuses on nature education through the lens of a two year scientific investigation “My World is Green & Growing.”
Hugh Jackman has also just filmed an episode which will air this season, along with Debra Messing, Ricky Geravis and Matthew Fox.
Sarah Jessica Parker …
Big Bird-day at Sesame Street
You’ve seen it on Google themes -Sesame Street turns the big 4-0 this week.
Today, it’s seen in 140 countries. Not bad for a bit of foam and some basic arithmetic. But the show is of course, so much more.
Kermit has become an international star. Big Bird has made the cover of Time magazine. Bert and Ernie and the Cookie Monster are household names. Oscar the Grouch, Elmo, and Count Von Count are institutions.
In 1966, the Carnegie Institute hired Joan Ganz Cooney to study how the media could be used to help …
Bold & Beautiful in historic win at Daytime Emmys
It’s only taken 22 years, but The Bold and the Beautiful has finally won its first Best Drama Series award at the Daytime Emmy Awards (it may have helped that there were only three in contention, the other two being All My Children and Days of Our Lives).
The View’s Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Sherri Shepherd won for Best Talk-Show Host, defeating Regis & Kelly, Rachel Ray and Ellen DeGeneres. But the gals didn’t bother to travel from New York to Los Angeles for the ceremony …
Animalia composer wins Daytime Emmy
Queensland music composer Christopher Elves has won a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for Animalia.
Elves defeated The Oprah Winfrey Show, Sesame Street, The Backyardigans and The Wonder Pets.
“It’s the most bizarre thing to happen to you,” he told the Brisbane Times.
“It’s usually only the Americans that win.”
Elves has a passion for children’s television, completing the scores for G2G, a pre-teen animated TV series for the Nine Network as well as Graeme Base’s Animalia.
The Daytime Emmy Awards are separated from the high-profile Primetime …