Children's television series
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Children's television series are television programmes designed for and marketed to children, normally broadcast during the morning and afternoon. The purpose of the shows is mainly to entertain and sometimes to educate the young audience about basic life skills or ideals.
Programmes vary in their intended age group audience and style of presentation. Some take the form of game shows or comedies, and many take the form of animated series, although early animations were often intended for an adult audience.
Children's television is nearly as old as television itself, with early examples including shows such as Blue Peter, Captain Tugg, The Magic Roundabout, Howdy Doody, The Clangers, Flower Pot Men and The Singing Ringing Tree. In the United States, early children's television was often a marketing branch of a larger corporate product such as Disney, and it rarely contained an educational element. Though there is some debate on the intended audience, later non-educational children's television programs included the science fiction programs of Irwin Allen (most notably Lost in Space), the fantasy series of Sid and Marty Krofft, and the extensive cartoon empire of Hanna-Barbera.
Many children's programmes also have a large adult following, sometimes in appreciation of their quality and educational value, and sometimes among adults who watched the shows as children or with their own children and now have a nostalgic emotional connection.
[edit] See also
List of local children's television series (United States)
List of children's television series by country
Cartoons on Television
Weekday cartoon | Saturday morning cartoon | Sunday morning cartoon | Prime time cartoon
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Children's Television Blocks in the United States
Present
ABC Kids (ABC) · The CW4Kids (CW) · DiC Kids Network (syndicated) · 4Kids TV (FOX, various) · KEWLopolis (CBS) · PBS Kids / GO! / Miss Lori and Hooper (PBS) · Planeta U (UNI) · qubo (NBC/ION/TMD) · Toonturama (TFU)
Former
BKN (syndicated) · CBS Kids (CBS) · Discovery Kids (NBC) · The Disney Afternoon (syndicated) · Disney's One Too (UPN) · Fox Box (FOX) · Fox Kids (FOX) · KOL Secret Slumber Party (CBS) · Kids' WB (CW) · Nick on CBS (CBS) · Nick Jr. on CBS (CBS) · One Saturday Morning (ABC) · Pillow Head Hour (WB) · TNBC (NBC) · Cartoon Quest (SciFi) · Animation Station (SciFi) · UPN Kids (UPN) · USA Cartoon Express (USA)
See Also
Children's Television Act · E/I · Saturday morning cartoon
[edit] External links
Children's Television, online exhibition from screenonline, a website of the British Film Institute
The 1950's-2000's Week-By-Week - includes listings and factoids for local/national children's shows.
The future of children's digital television - an interview with Gloria Tristani
