"Lon Po Po Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China is a children's picture book translated and illustrated by Ed Young. It was published by Philomel (Penguin Young Readers Group) in 1989. Young won the 1990 Caldecott Medal for the books illustrations. The story is a Chinese version of the popular children's fable ""Little Red Riding Hood"" as retold by Young. Contrary to the original fable, in which there is only one child (little Red Riding Hood) who interacts with the nemesis of the story (the wolf), Lon Po Po has three children. It is written from the"
"Bitsy Entertainment, which licenses the ""Teletubbies"" in the United States, said, ""I really find it absurd and kind of offensive."" The UK show was aimed at pre-school children, but the article stated ""he is purple – the gay pride color; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle – the gay-pride symbol"". Apart from those characteristics Tinky Winky also carries a magic bag which the ""NLJ"" and ""Salon"" articles said was a purse. Falwell added that ""role modeling the gay lifestyle is damaging to the moral lives of children"". After the September 11 attacks in 2001, Falwell said on Pat"
"Teletubbies Teletubbies is a British pre-school children's television series created by Ragdoll Productions' Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport. The programme focuses on four multi-coloured creatures known as ""Teletubbies"", named after the television screens implanted in their abdomens. Recognised throughout popular culture for the uniquely shaped antenna protruding from the head of each character, the Teletubbies communicate through gibberish and were designed to bear resemblance to toddlers. Particularly notable for its high production values, the series rapidly became a commercial success in Britain and abroad. It won multiple BAFTA awards and was nominated for two Daytime Emmys throughout its run. A"
"The new line was released in September 2012. As of December 2012 there were sixteen colors: Teal, white, black, purple, tangerine-tango, yellow, aqua, navy blue, plum, pink, pink/teal, orange/blue, black/pink, blue/yellow, teal/purple, gray/teal. Furbies were one of the eleven toys named top toys for Christmas 2013 by the Toy Retailers Association at the DreamToys Convention where they unveil their predictions for most popular holiday toys annually. The main reason for their popularity was because of apparent ""intelligence"", reflected in their ability to develop language skills. Furbies can communicate with one another via an infrared port located between their eyes. Furbies"
"by Andrew McCrorie-Shand and Andrew Davenport, and produced by McCrorie-Shand and Steve James. The single reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1997, and remained in the Top 75 for 32 weeks after its release. In December 2017, Teletubbies Play Time was released worldwide for mobile devices by Built Games. Teletubbies Teletubbies is a British pre-school children's television series created by Ragdoll Productions' Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport. The programme focuses on four multi-coloured creatures known as ""Teletubbies"", named after the television screens implanted in their abdomens. Recognised throughout popular culture for the uniquely shaped antenna protruding"
"the musical Jellaby that plays the saxophone; Bouncey, who lives in a bumper car, is yellow, Denny, who lives in a boat on the jelly-lake, is blue, Pepper, who lives in a tree house, is red, the twins Amber and Coral, (which they are orange and pink, respectively). Amber lives in a hot air balloon and Coral lives in a house made out of building blocks and toys which she can modify her house as she pleases, and finally Duffy the green Dragon, the only non-Jellaby character in the entire show, lives in the Jelly Caves. 1. Caterpillar (18 May"
"shows"". Pob's Programme Pob's Programme is a children's television programme which was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Channel 4. The programme is presented by a puppet named Pob (played by puppeteer Robin Stevens), who speaks Welsh and who supposedly lives inside the viewer's TV (the casing and red, green and blue electron guns visible behind him). Music was composed and performed by Mike Stanley. The opening titles of the show consist of the character breathing on the camera lens (this breathing was often mistaken for spitting, given the loud noise accompanying it and the thick condensation appearing on screen),"
"Pob's Programme Pob's Programme is a children's television programme which was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Channel 4. The programme is presented by a puppet named Pob (played by puppeteer Robin Stevens), who speaks Welsh and who supposedly lives inside the viewer's TV (the casing and red, green and blue electron guns visible behind him). Music was composed and performed by Mike Stanley. The opening titles of the show consist of the character breathing on the camera lens (this breathing was often mistaken for spitting, given the loud noise accompanying it and the thick condensation appearing on screen), and"
"operated by Mark Mander on that programme, although Skelton continued to provide his voice. In October 2017, Zippy, George and Bungle appeared in a Pizza Hut advert. Georges sexuality as possibly being gay has been hotly debated. George (Rainbow) George is an effeminate anthropomorphic pink Hippo and a character of the popular children's television programme ""Rainbow"", voiced by Roy Skelton and operated by Malcolm Lord, Tony Holtham and later Craig Crane. Sporting long eyelashes, George often appeared to be initially outwitted by the more extrovert and egotistical Zippy. However in the manner of The Tortoise and the Hare, George normally"
"populated by rabbits with bird calls audible in the background. The main shelter of the four Teletubbies is an earth house known as the ""Tubbytronic Superdome"" implanted in the ground and accessed through a hole at the top or an especially large semicircular door at the dome's foot. The creatures co-exist with a number of strange contraptions such as the Noo-noo, the group's anthropomorphic blue vacuum cleaner, and the Voice Trumpets. The show's colourful, psychedelic setting was designed specifically to appeal to the attention spans of infants and unlock different sections of the mind while also educating young children of"
"yellow polka dot set, but in this season, they move into the opposite colours and that repeats. In Series 1, Nat would wear a pink sleeveless jacket, and Pete would wear a green t-shirt with yellow stripes and neck. In Series 2, Pete's outfit varies, between a red t-shirt with a yellow fire symbol, and a green t-shirt with a yellow firework symbol. The name of the programme comes from the informal verb to dance (boogie) and the Beebies suffix of CBeebies. The program was advertised using a child dancing ""Travolta style"" to A Fifth of Beethoven by Walter Murphy."
"23 October 2012). Along with his Test Card F co-star Carole Hersee, Bubbles has appeared for an estimated total of 70,000 hours on television, equivalent to nearly eight whole years, which is more than any living person other than Carole (who still owns Bubbles). Bubbles' original body colour was blue and white, but the BBC engineers decided that green was also needed within the scene as the other two television primary colours, red and blue, were already shown. A green wrap was made to cover his body and this can be seen in Test Card J and Test Card W,"
"the chief national gay representative, while trendy Tinky Winky was ""in"". He warned parents that Tinky Winky could be a covert homosexual symbol, because ""he is purple, the gay pride colour, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle: the gay pride symbol."" The BBC made an official response, explaining that ""Tinky Winky is simply a sweet, technological baby with a magic bag."" Ken Viselman of Itsy-Bitsy Entertainment commented, ""He's not gay. He's not straight. He's just a character in a children's series."" In May 2007, Polish Ombudsman for Children, Ewa Sowińska revisited the matter, and planned to order an"
"playful, bouncy young tom kitten. Pouncival uses the trapeze frequently during the show, and often joins Tumblebrutus in most dance routines. He is a brown, white and grey tabby colour with a triangular brown mark around his left eye. Sillabub is the Broadway equivalent of Jemima, and the name is also used for Australian and Japanese productions. Sillabub seems to be good friends with Victoria, Etcetera, Electra and Jemima. Her costume is black, brown and red with a mainly white wig. Sillabub means ""silly devil"", and the character tends to be more jumpy and excitable than her counterpart, Jemima. The"
"Nazitübbies Nazitübbies is a series of shorts currently () appearing in the former Danish satirical late-night talk show ""den 11. time"". The show is a parody of the BBC's children's television series ""Teletubbies"", and it tries to envisage what this show would have looked like, had the Nazis won World War II. Nazitübbies features the four colourful characters: Heinrich Himmler as Tinky Winky (actually Dipsy) (who is black instead of green), Joseph Goebbels as Dipsy (actually Laa-Laa) (who is gold instead of yellow), Hermann Göring as Laa-Laa (actually Tinky Winky) (who is blue instead of purple) and Rudolf Hess as"
"(all of which could communicate together), along with spin-offs such as the Meow-Chi and the Chirpy-Chi. Miniature versions were featured as toys in the McDonald's Happy Meal. Poo-Chi stopped selling in 2002, having been replaced by FurReal Friends. The original Poo-Chi had a gray body with ears, tail, and leg joints of either purple, blue, pink or green colour. With four legs allowing the toy to stand up or lie down, it utilized a red LED display as eyes to show emotion. The Christmas Special Edition Poo-Chi was offered for a limited time, coloured red and white with snowflake designs"
"series have several parallels. Whereas the teddybears eat ""hot cross buns, honey, pancakes, jelly and ice cream"", the Teletubbies eat ""tubby toast and tubby custard"". The teddybears sing ""The Teddybear Song"" while the Teletubbies sing ""Teletubbies say ""Eh-oh!"""". A difference between the two TV series is that ""Teddybears""s intended audience is older children. The shows' similarities sparked ""intense"" coverage by the media. Newspapers and TV shows requested interviews with the teddybears, who all appeared on Richard and Judy's ""This Morning"". The five teddybears in the series are William, Sara, Louise, Robert, and Charles. They wear ""brightly-coloured furry suits"" and live"
"Nikky Smedley Nicola Jane Smedley (born 20 October 1970, in Solihull) is an English actress, dancer, choreographer, television director and producer. Smedley is best known for her role as Laa Laa in the BBC children's show ""Teletubbies"", which she played from 1997 until 2001. Smedley creates and performs work for children and young people, and has been doing so for three decades. She is best known for playing the yellow Teletubby, Laa Laa in the BBC children's series ""Teletubbies"" between 1997 and 2001, and for her involvement in choreographing Ragdoll Productions' ""Boohbah"" and ""In the Night Garden..."". In 2012, Smedley"
"guitars Jimmy Johnson - guitars Barry Beckett - guitars The Teletubbies album has a tremendous cult following. Many people have purchased the album believing that it contains demonic undertones. There have been multiple theories, but none have been proven true thus far. The original ""Teletubbies"" premiered on 31 March 1997 in the UK, and it premiered on the US on PBS on 6 April 1998. Although the final episode premiered in the UK in February 2001, it did not air on PBS until 19 June 2005; re-runs ceased on 29 August 2008. The PBS version was renamed ""Teletubbies 10"" in"
"the original show does not possess. Bubbles (voiced by Tara Strong in the series, Emma Tate in the British dub and by Kath Soucie in the What a Cartoon! episodes) is the cute and sensitive one. Her personality ingredient is ""sugar"", her signature color is blue, and she has blonde hair in pigtails. She was named for her ""bubbly"" personality. Bubbles is seen as kind and very sweet but she is also capable of extreme rage and can fight monsters just as well as her sisters can. Her best friend is a stuffed octopus doll she calls ""Octi"", and she"
"cremello, which is the next most likely colouring. In 'The Silver Brumby', the special relationship between Thowra and his mother Bel Bel is due to their unusual shared colouring: Bel Bel's other foals by the chestnut stallion Yarraman are all chestnut. In the cartoon series and the movie released in the mid-1990s, the 'creamies' are represented as Palominos, but earlier cover art shows the silver horses as greys (white) Original Cover Art. Despite the early representation of Thowra as a grey horse, there are several grey horses within the books, including Thowra's mate Boon Boon, and the grey stallion Cloud"
"The Teletubbies have not had another such hit, making them a one-hit wonder. The song contains two nursery rhymes, the Teletubbies hum along to ""Baa, Baa, Black Sheep"" and the flowers from Teletubbyland sing ""Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary"". There was considerable anticipation that it would be the Christmas number one in 1997 and it was the betting favorite at William Hill at odds of 6–4. This race was said to have been decided by the under-10 age group as the rival Spice Girls were popular with seven-year-old girls while the Teletubbies were more popular with younger children. Siobhan Ennis, the"
"and Baby Pom is the smallest, green with pink stripes and generally follows the others like a toddler, whilst pushing Trundle Truck. Other characters, which are essentially large scale puppets, are a strange-looking blue tree frog called Rockit. a purple and green striped mole called Roly Mo, a plump and motherly pink bird called Bessie and her chick, Ribble. Originally Ribble was an almost featureless squeaking blob of orange fur with a beak; he was given eyes in later episodes. The three Fimbles have a special ""sixth sense"" - when the Tinkling Tree tinkles its bell-like blossoms, it makes the"
"Bond), Thin Arthur (Rory O'Donoghue), and Kid Eager (Garry McDonald) are swallowed into the world of colour television, as colour wipes from the bottom of the screen, converting the ABC into colour television. The characters are shown attempting to resist the arrival of colour, with Aunty Jack fighting the process with ""colour remover"" in what ultimately becomes a futile process. The special was started at three minutes to midnight, so that the episode would swipe to colour at midnight, beating all other Australian commercial television stations, which respectively changed to colour television on the 1 March 1975, although many sources"
"go back to the Tubbytronic Superdome while the Sun Baby sets. On 31 March 1997, the first episode of ""Teletubbies"" aired on BBC2. It filled a timeslot previously held by ""Playdays"". This schedule change initially received backlash from parents, but the show was not moved. The programme's unconventional format quickly received attention from the media, and it was attracting two million viewers per episode by August. In February 1998, ""The Sydney Morning Herald"" noted that it had ""reached cult status"" in less than a year on the air. ""Teletubbies"" has been aired in over 120 countries in 45 different languages."
"days to meet a tight schedule. Editing was done by Ralph Tittley (also a director), Paul Perrins and Jason Bills. During the production of the many episodes, Jonny Lewis (the original designer/director of animation) left due to conflicting aims between him and the management. The company finished the production but did not then go on to successfully produce another show that made it to TV, in spite of several more attempts. Songs written and composed by Vo Fletcher. Each of the 6 jellabies represent the colours of the rainbow. Strum, who lives at the train station, is purple, and is"
"Poppy Cat (TV series) Poppy Cat (alternatively The Extraordinary Adventures of Poppy Cat) is a British preschool animated television series, which first aired on 2 May 2011 and last aired on 2 October 2015. It is based on a series of books created by British illustrator and writer Lara Jones, and is a co-production of Coolabi Productions, King Rollo Films, Ingenious Media, and Cake Entertainment for Nick Jr. and Channel 5. The series centers on Poppy, a young neckerchief-wearing kitten heroine, leading her eccentric team of friends who are stuffed animals, Alma the bunny, Zuzu the Dalmatian puppy, an owl"
"and white films were almost worn out, and as BBC1 was by then transmitted in colour, 13 new episodes were produced and shown from 5 January 1970. The 13 episodes of the 1970 series are: Another set of 52 episodes was made in 2001, using the stop-motion technique instead of string puppeteering. The original nursery and garden were expanded to an entire village, with Andy, Teddy and Looby Loo now owning individual houses, and four new characters were introduced into the series: Missy Hissy; a snake, Tiffo; a teal-and-purple dog, Bilbo (vocals performed by David Holt); a sailor, and Orbie"
"series ""Bagpuss"" was a striped pink cat. The puppet used for animation was originally supposed to be marmalade coloured, but was dyed pink accidentally during the manufacturing process. Another children's television series, ""Roobarb and Custard"" featured a pink cat, Custard. Creator Grange Calveley based Custard's mannerisms on Sid James. The Pink Panther is a cartoon character created by Friz Freleng. As well as featuring in the opening titles of the films starring Peter Sellers, he has appeared in spin-off cartoon series. Animation historian Jerry Beck has said the character is ""anti-authority – he's cool yet he's pink"". In 2014, Dutch"
"a rag doll, who would appear/come to life when Andy and Teddy weren't around. Looby Loo had her own special song ""Here we go Looby Loo"". All three lived in the same picnic basket. Each episode ended with a variation on the song: ""Time to go home, Time to go home, Andy is waving goodbye."" It is claimed that the design for the character was based on Paul Atterbury, the then young son of puppeteer Audrey Atterbury. A comic-strip version was published in ""Robin"". The production staff for the original series were: The 26 episodes were: By 1970, the black"
"The series stars the titular Bunny Maloney, who is a pink anthropomorphic rabbit, and he is often blundering and over-confident. He lives in an apartment with his friends: Candy Bunny (another pink rabbit constantly wearing a red scrunchie, who is also his girlfriend), Jean-François (a blue dog-like creature of an unnamed species with a long tail, who can only say his own name). They also have a small, light blue pet owned by Candy of an unknown species named Potchi, who also serves as the ProtecTeam's mascot, and Bunny's fish (each colored red, cyan, yellow and medium magenta). They live"
"Tots TV Tots TV is a British children's television programme, produced by Ragdoll Productions and Central. The programme featured three ragdoll friends: Tilly, a French girl, with red hair and white skin, who speaks in basic French (changed to English in French broadcasts), Tom, a blue-haired boy with dark skin and glasses, and Tiny, the youngest Tot, who is smaller than the others and has green hair and white skin. It also featured their pet Donkey who lived in a stable next to the tots' secret house and a mischievous little dog named Furryboo that the tots never knew about."
"of ""Looney Tunes"" characters. Most of the Tiny Toons characters were designed to resemble younger versions of Warner Bros.' most popular Looney Tunes animal characters by exhibiting similar traits and looks. The two main characters are both rabbits: Buster Bunny, a blue male rabbit, and Babs Bunny, a pink female rabbit not related to Buster, Plucky Duck, a green male duck, Hamton J. Pig, a pink male pig. Other major characters in the cast are generally nonhuman as well. These include Fifi La Fume, a purple-and-white female skunk; Shirley The Loon, a white female loon; Dizzy Devil, a purple tasmanian"