NEW YORK – TV’s hot new characters for preschoolers are designed to get the little couch potatoes up and moving. PBS’s “Boohbah,” Nickelodeon’s “LazyTown” and the Disney Channel’s “JoJo’s Circus” are ...

Go back to where IT all began.

A new Winnie-the-Pooh character? Neither. But those two silly-sounding syllables just may form one of the most important new words learned this year by parents of preschool children. Boohbah is the ...

A new era is born.

The arrival of Boohbah, a new kid’s TV show from Anne Wood, the British child development guru who created Teletubbies and is one of the wealthiest women in the U.K., brings both good and bad tidings ...

If you have any recollection of the early 2000s children television program Boohbah, it may feel like a vague memory of a fever dream. The show is about fuzzy humanoid creatures that live in a ...

WHEN she introduced four podgy, TV-obsessed characters with no discernible language skills to Britain’s toddlers in 1996, there was a storm of controversy. Her creation, the children’s television hit ...

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Anne Wood, the creator of the new children's television series Boohbah. Wood is also the creative force behind Teletubbies, and says her new show is designed to get ...

TV’s hot new characters for preschoolers are designed to get the little couch potatoes up and moving. PBS’ “Boohbah,” Nickelodeon’s “LazyTown” and the Disney Channel’s “JoJo’s Circus” are all examples ...

From the creators of the award-winning Teletubbies, this series promotes activity and creativity among children ages 2-6. It is intended to foster a style of active viewing in which the things that ...