Sesame Workshop

Sesame Workshop heads to Mipcom this October 5-9, 2009, where it will offer a new slate of Sesame series, which are currently in development, as well as its new version of The Electric Company (26x3):
Abby's Flying Fairy School (13x8) a CGI-animated series featuring Sesame Street's Abby Cadabby and her friends, including Niblet who is part gerbil/part unicorn, as they attend Fairy School. The CGI characters in Abby's Flying Fairy School were designed by Peter De Seve (character designer for Ice Age).
Munchin' Impossible (26x5) With the goal of saving the world's cookies, The Man, a gingerbread man cookie that heads the CIA (Cookie Intelligence Agency) sends Cookie Monster out in the world to find healthy eating alternatives. The short-form series is a mix of puppet and live-action content.
Elmo's Backyard (26x5) as Elmo explores his own backyard, finding everything from a spider web to a frozen birdbath, the mixed puppet and live-action series encourages kids to learn through exploration. The short-form series is based on a science education curriculum including process, exploration and vocabulary etc.
3-2-1 Let's Go (working title, 52x30) the original series is hosted by Abby Cadabby and features segments from Play With Me Sesame, Global Grover and introduce kids to Bert and Ernie's Great Adventure, Sesame Workshop's first claymation series.


Cookie Jar Entertainment and Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) launch the Busytown Mysteries website in Canada this week at www.busytownmysteries.ca or www.kidscbc.ca/busytownmysteries , which is, of course, based on the preschool TV series of the same name and in turn is based on the work of author Richard Scarry. The Busytown Mysteries site invites kids to be residents of Busytown and offers a range of preschool-aimed educational interactive games, creative projects and activities and My First Email.