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 ...

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Anne Wood, the creator of the new children's television series Boohbah. Wood is also the creative force behind Teletubbies, and says her new show is designed to get ...

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 ...

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 was a children's television show. It premiered in 2003 on ITV in the United Kingdom, and on 19 January 2004 in the United States on PBS until 2 July 2006. It was created by Anne Wood with ...

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 ...

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 ...