When the Jim Henson Company and PBS Kids announced their latest project, an edumacational show called Dinosaur Train, last week, our first thought was that a show about dinosaurs AND trains might be the most Nerd Dad approved television program of all time -- especially if the show involved robots and/or spaceships in any capacity.
The Jim Henson Company has finalized an agreement with PBS KIDS to debut the all-new CGI-animated series, DINOSAUR TRAIN, in fall 2009. The new series embraces and celebrates the fascination that preschoolers have with both dinosaurs and trains while encouraging basic scientific thinking and skills as the audience learns about natural science, natural history and paleontology.
Again, if by some chance you missed it: DINOSAURS AND TRAINS. I would want to watch this show even if I didn't have a kid. It's an original, inspired, near-failsafe concept if there ever was one, right? About science! Science and trains! And dinosaurs!
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