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 ...

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 ...

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 certain word is about to enter the everyday lexicon of parents whose preschoolers watch public TV. Say it once with a New Age-y, echoey inflection, and then many times, loudly, in rapid succession: ...

Boohbah is a fun, quirky preschool series from the creators of the much-loved Teletubbies. The Boohbahs - Humbah, Zumbah, Zing Zing Zingbah, Jumbah and Jingba, are five colourful atoms of energy ...

Children are deeply weird people, and it takes a deeply weird adult to make TV for them. Fortunately for us, and for them, Anne Wood is just that weird. Wood, 65, is the pink-haired Englishwoman who ...

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 ...

UK network ITV is banking on five sparkling atoms to pull in the preschool audiences previously hooked on Teletubbies. The commercial network hopes that live-action show Boohbah (104×20') will pick up ...

Children & Family, Education & Guidance, Kids' TV, Ages 0-2 - This PBS children's series revolves around the high-spirited adventures of Humbah, Jingbah, Jumbah, Zing Zing Zingbah and Zumbah, the ...