'The Backyardigans' Go to Camp During Pirate-Week

The young audience and early education television programming block Nick Jr. continues to send springtime adventures to audiences early this year, as it schedules an early June broadcast of a new episode of The Backyardigans sets to air. A fantasy-adventure series that sets its characters' escapades to song and dance, The Backyardigans, during the second full week of June, will accompany other Nick Jr. programs during a week of pirate-themed television cartoons. Nick Jr. is a specially designed programming block airing on Nickelodeon weekdays from 9:00am-2:00pm (ET). The programming block is dedicated to preschoolers, is curriculum based, and best-of-all, commercial free.

Appealing to the preschool interest to sail the high seas, search for buried treasure, and assuredly find a multitude of reasons to yell incoherent piratical musings now and again, Pirate Week for the Nick Jr. programming block is scheduled to air themed episodes of Dora the Explorer and Max & Ruby in addition to other series', from Monday, June 9th through to Friday, June 13th.

The new half-hour adventure of The Backyardigans however, will premiere on Monday, June 9th at 9:00am (ET/PT).

Leading up to the themed-week of Nick Jr. animation programming, Nick Jr.'s online counterpart -- NickJr.com -- will be gearing up its broadband video service to cater to its browsers every pirate-based needs. Nick Jr. Video, starting the first full-week of June, on June 2nd, 2008, will be streaming clips of the episode "Pirate Camp" of The Backyardigans. According to Nickelodeon, a two-minute sneak peek from "Pirate Camp," and pirate-themed clips from other Nick Jr. shows will be available on wireless carriers.

In "Pirate Camp," Uniqua really wants to be a pirate, so she convinces a fearful Pablo to join her at Camp Walk-A-Planka. Under the tutelage of the great pirate captain Austin, the campers learn about "pirattitude" and dance the scalawag to a Garage Band soundtrack. When Austin is captured by pirate captain Red Boots, a fearsome ghost played by Tasha, it's up to the pirate campers to use their "pirattitude" to help set him free. But can they escape being tickled and turned into ghosts by captain Red Boots?

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