Planet Preschool Blog
About the Author
Josh Selig is the President and Founder of Little Airplane Productions, producer of international preschool hits The Wonder Pets!, 3rd & Bird and the upcoming CBeebies/Disney Junior series, Small Potatoes.
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Planet PreschoolToday I’m on board Porter Airlines flight #136 from New York to Toronto. My plane has only a few dozen seats and the smiling guy who greeted me at the door is the same smiling guy who just taught me how to use my seatbelt. There are no big jet engines on a Porter airplane, just two cute propellers that apparently spin fast enough to get me and my fellow travelers all the way to Toronto. So, in a nutshell, Little Airplane is flying on a little airplane.
Word Find
Planet PreschoolWhat do the words “plastic,” “treaty,” “overage,” and “Vegas” have in common? They’re all part of the first ever Preschool TV Word Find!
Dear Diary
Planet Preschool“Dear Diary, you are the only one who really understands me,” writes Kidscreen blogger Josh Selig in this week’s intimate and revealing Planet Preschool blog.
Interview With Myself
Planet PreschoolIn this week’s Planet Preschool exclusive, Small Potatoes creator Josh Selig interviews someone he knows very well – an individual who happens to have the same name, career and motivation for writing a Kidscreen blog.
Deeper Than Google
Planet PreschoolSpring is busting out all over New York. Tulips are rampant. Buds are ubiquitous. The sun seems to go down more slowly in April and the colors linger longer. But on the work front, Spring seems to be hitting everyone I know like a freight train. Big companies and small ones are in upheaval. With these changes comes great insecurity for most folks and the need to look long and hard at their businesses. Since I have no intention of not making my preschool shows anytime soon, here’s an approach I’ve settled on that I find helps me during these changing times.
The Waiting
Planet PreschoolPatience may be a virtue but it’s certainly not one of mine. I’m plagued by a restlessness that makes waiting for anything – a phone call, an e-mail, a pitch – almost unbearable. Unfortunately, I work in an industry in which waiting is the prerequisite for doing anything. This week, I decided to make a list of all the things that I’m waiting for. I imagine that some of you will be able to identify with my list and I suspect others of you are actually responsible for it.
Small Potatoes MIPTV Wall Of Fame
Planet PreschoolAll your favorite children’s TV executives are in Cannes this week for MIPTV.
From Jerusalem To Barnes & Noble
Planet PreschoolEverything, in the end, is an experiment. We try lots of experiments here at Little Airplane, from making custom Small Potatoes on warships to opening up our studio twice a year to give away all our secrets at the Little Airplane Academy. But perhaps our most unusual experiment so far has been The Olive Branch, our series of one-minute non-verbal shorts that currently air on over 100 channels around the world including Nick Jr. here in the US.
Be Like Water
Planet PreschoolSpring is peeking in the windows of Little Airplane like a rabbit, cautious, deciding whether to hop. I sit in the same wooden chair I’ve had since my days at Sesame Street and I watch it all – the buds breaking in the trees, the big flags of sunlight – and I wonder what this new season will bring.
Dance Academy
Planet PreschoolI first met Joanna Werner about five years ago on the Gold Coast of Australia during my first ever Screen Producer’s Association of Australia conference, better known as SPAA. Though she had been a very successful producer for many years (H2O: Just Add Water, The Elephant Princess), it was immediately clear to me that Joanna was a show creator at heart. Her first original series, Dance Academy, has met with great success all over the world and recently launched in the US on Teen Nick. I asked Joanna if she would share her story in this week’s blog and here’s what she wrote as she rushed off to Mumbai.
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