Season 10 • Episode 10
LatestBetween the Lions is a PBS Kids puppet television series designed to promote reading. The show is a co-production between WGBH in Boston and Sirius Thinking, Ltd., in New York City, in association with Mississippi Public Broadcasting, in Mississippi. The show has won seven Daytime Emmy awards between 2001 and 2007. The target audience is children 4 to 7 years old. It has the same puppet style as Sesame Street and several season 2 episodes, notably in Dance in Smarty Pants, had a few characters from Sesame Street guest appearing. Between The Lions started its 10th and final season on September 20, 2010. The Show Ended in November, 22 2010 Along with Reading Rainbow
Practical Effects
Muppet-level puppetry that puts most CG to shame
Writing
Genuinely clever wordplay that works on two levels
Production
Sesame Street DNA with its own chaotic library energy
Creators
Kathryn Mullen, Norman Stiles, Michael K. Frith, Lou Berger, Christopher Cerf
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The show's creators included original Sesame Street writer Norman Stiles and Muppet performer Kathryn Mullen — basically Muppet royalty making reading cool.
Between the Lions and Reading Rainbow ending the same day in November 2010 marked the unofficial death of PBS literacy programming's golden age. RIP to real ones.
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