Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Janice Burgess, creator of Nickelodeon’s “The Backyardigans,” died on Saturday in hospice care in Manhattan, according to The New ...
A major force in children's television has died. Janice Burgess oversaw popular Nick Jr. and Nickelodeon shows such as "Blue's Clues." As NPR culture correspondent Anastasia Tsioulcas reports, she was ...
In “The Backyardigans,” she created a world for kids as wildly sophisticated as her own. By Sam Anderson For parents, cartoons are like weather. We can control plenty else in our children’s lives: ...