Sprout On Demand

Sprout On Demand (HD)

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Sprout On Demand was Sprout's VOD (video-on-demand) service that featured past and present Sprout series, with instant access to their episodes. It launched in April 2005 on Comcast, 5 months ahead of the linear channel, with fifteen hours of programming, twenty-five percent of which was refreshed biweekly. It has received more than 100 million orders since. To promote, a Sprout launch party was held at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco. At the time, each show opened with idents featuring the soon-to-be iconic green sprout in the Sprout logo, designed by Primal Screen. The linear channel idents debuted on-demand in January 2006.

After the on demand service launched, forty-five PBS stations participated in the PBS KIDS Sprout Local Marketing Affiliation Program (LMAP), which provided stations with an integral local cross-promotional and marketing role in expanding the reach of PBS' children's programming through Sprout.

The service has received more than 80 million total views in its first year of distribution and more than one billion orders over the years. As of 2011, it became a top 5 performer amongst all free video on demand services with an average of 17 Million monthly VOD orders.

Former shows available

• The Adventures of Captain Pugwash
• The Adventures of Paddington Bear
• Angelina Ballerina
• Animal Mechanicals
• Archibald the Koala
• Astroblast!
• Barney & Friends
• The Berenstain Bears
• Boohbah
• Brambly Hedge
• Busytown Mysteries
• Caillou
• Dennis and Gnasher
• dirtgirlworld
• Dorothy the Dinosaur
• Dragon Tales
• Driver Dan's Story Train
• George Shrinks
• Fireman Sam
• Fly Tales
• Frances
• ¡Hola Sproutitos! (for Time Warner Cable customers only)
  • Sesame English
• The Hoobs
• Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
• Jay Jay the Jet Plane
• Kipper
• Kratts' Creatures
• Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles!
• Little People: Big Discoveries
• Madeline
• Make Way for Noddy
  • Say It With Noddy
• Nina Sleeps (Sprout's Snooze-a-Thon)
• Pajanimals
• Percy the Park Keeper
• Pingu
• Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat
• Sesame Street
  • Plaza Sésamo
• Seven Little Monsters
• Sheeep
• Sprout Specials
• Teletubbies
• Thomas & Friends
• The Three Friends and Jerry
• The Wiggles Show!
• The Wiggles (TV Series 1)
• The Wiggles (TV Series 2)
• Zoboomafoo

Movies and Specials

• Can I Read to You
• Everybody Clap! Everybody Sing! (The Wiggles documentary)
• A Sesame Street Christmas Carol

Gallery

The service's website.

Notes

• Sprout episodes opened with Sprout is Always Here for You and later "Sprout is Yours to Share," and often closed with a bumper featuring the Sprout logo on a purple television which morphed into a computer or mobile phone. A commercial for Sprout Please, either Live Sprout commercial, and promos for Sprout's Viewer Circle were additionally used.
• When clips from its programming blocks were on-demand, Sprout made a "Start Over" button that rewinded them back to the beginning.