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Summary "Hey You guyyyyyyyys!" PBS resurrects the 1970s favorite kid's program The Electric Company for a new generation! Full of didactic stories and engaging song and dance routines, the creators aim to teach young people to read in a down-to-earth street style that they will easily understand.
- 2006
- TV-G
- PBS
- 2006
- TV-G
- PBS
The Electric Company
Season 1 Premiere: Jan 19, 2009
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Summary "Hey You guyyyyyyyys!" PBS resurrects the 1970s favorite kid's program The Electric Company for a new generation! Full of didactic stories and engaging song and dance routines, the creators aim to teach young people to read in a down-to-earth street style that they will easily understand.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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88% Positive
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13% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
74
88% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
13% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Though the hip 'n' urban vibe seems overly calculated--did studies show that 8-year-olds respond to beatboxing white dudes?--and the cast is aggressively up with people, you gotta love new characters.
With a visual sensibility that mimics a video game, Web browser and iPhone, as well as a hearty online presence with a social-networking bent, the new Electric Company seems to deliver.
Today’s children will certainly find it watchable and will have better language skills after spending time with it. They just aren’t likely to still be holding it in their hearts 35 years from now.
New technology is good. The latest educational research is good. This new crew is a superhero team we could support--even if we don't quite understand how Wordball solves crimes. None of that was ever what the original "Electric Company" was about, though.
Like everything else in the world, the show is faster, louder and busier, which would not necessarily seem to be the best environment for learning.
Appealing to a super-sophisticated generation of kids is likely to be the biggest challenge for Sesame Workshop, which is producing The Electric Company for PBS.
The only problem here is that once in a while the producers and cast get so enthusiastic about their production numbers, their words become almost unintelligible.
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Production Company:
- Sesame Workshop
- Six Point Harness
Initial Release Date: Jan 19, 2009
Number of seasons: 3 Seasons
Rating: TV-G
Awards
Daytime Emmy Awards
• 10 Wins & 21 Nominations
Casting Society of America, USA
• 1 Nomination
Television Critics Association Awards
• 1 Nomination
