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Wowsabout's Halle Stanford on Puppets, the Science of Awe, and Making Kids TV Without a Traditional Commissioning Deal
Halle Stanford has spent almost 30 years at the Jim Henson Company — executive producing Fraggle Rock, creating Sid the Science Kid — and has just launched Wowsabout, a new puppet preschool special on PBS Kids about a guitar-playing hedgehog and a tree-loving pig out to see the wows of the world. It's the first preschool show built around the emotion of awe, and it's already outperforming existing PBS Kids IP on YouTube within two weeks of release.
The conversation covers how Wowsabout got made — and it wasn't through a conventional commissioning deal. Halle built a coalition of…
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