The Backyardigans is a children’s show that aired on Nick Jr. from 2004 to 2013 and follows ... as they all imagine that they’re on a deserted island together. (Austin, the purple kangaroo, ...

R.I.P. Janice Burgess, creator of The Backyardigans. In 1998, she produced the pilot for My Friends And Me, a full-body, live-action puppet show starring a penguin, a moose, a hippopotamus, and a ...

Janice Burgess, creator of the beloved children's TV series "The Backyardigans," is dead at 72. The former Nickelodeon executive had breast cancer.

Janice Burgess, creator of Nickelodeon’s “The Backyardigans,” died on Saturday in hospice care in Manhattan, according to The New York Times.She was 72. “We are saddened to learn of the ...