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The Wiggles as of 2022 (Tsehay, Lachy, Simon, Anthony, Evie, John, Caterina, and Lucia).
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Sprout's final Wiggles.
The Wiggles are an Australian children's music group formed in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1991. From 2013 to the end of its Sprout run, the group members were Anthony Field, Lachlan Gillespie, Simon Pryce, and Emma Watkins. To this day, all remain in the band except for Watkins, who left in 2021 and was replaced by Tsehay Hawkins. The original members were Field, Phillip Wilcher, Murray Cook, Greg Page, and Jeff Fatt.[2] Wilcher left the group after their first album. Page retired in 2006 due to ill health and was replaced by understudy Sam Moran, but returned in 2012, replacing Moran. At the end of 2012, Page, Cook, and Fatt retired, and were replaced by Gillespie, Pryce, and Watkins. Cook and Fatt retained their shareholding in the group and all three continued to have input into its creative and production aspects, as well as filling in for current members when called for. To this day, there have been occasional reunion shows.
History on Sprout
After leaving Playhouse Disney in May[1] 2009, due to ratings competition from the Imagination Movers, a children's group from New Orleans, Louisiana, the Wiggles joined Sprout on August 24th, 2009 (a month before the rebrand on September 21st) launching a block, Sprout's Wiggly Waffle which aired on weekday mornings until March 2013 and an appearance on The Sunny Side Up Show later that day,[2] where they received 25,000 viewer phone calls.[3] This was a day after The Wiggles' US world tour brought them to Philadelphia. A few days prior, Sprout launched Wiggles episodes of their assorted series, as well as behind-the-scenes footage and direct-to-video titles such as "Go Bananas"[4] on Sprout On Demand, with episodes selected by the band themselves. The episodes debuted on the channel proper the same day Wiggly Waffle launched. In addition, Sprout Please was briefly renamed "Wiggles Please."
According to Mike Conway, the move to Sprout was about aligning with a network that would give the group a chance to do new things creatively.
Their show aired at 7AM ET (later at 6:45 ET) and 8:13AM ET during their block, 4:30PM (later at 4:35 ET) and 5:15PM ET during The Sprout Sharing Show, and at 7AM and 8:30AM ET during The Let's Go Show until that block dissolved. It later aired at 10:37AM ET during weekend editions of The Sunny Side Up Show.
Wiggly Waffle stick puppets.
The Wiggles were added to Preschool Musical on Two Sticks the same year in December, where they were inserted into "Holiday Feast" (where it took place in the waffle with Bean and Alfalfa) and "Nothing Better." The Wiggles filmed the special in front of a green screen while the second batch of Wiggly Waffle segments were filmed in Australia.
On February 14, 2010, a 3-hour special called Dino-Mite Valentine's Sing-Along aired. It was hosted by both Barney from Barney & Friends and Dorothy the Dinosaur. It was screened again a year later in 2011.
On September 22, 2012, with the return of Greg Wiggle, Greg, along with the other Wiggles, visited Chica to sing a few songs including "A Frog Went A-Walking, "Fruit Salad, and "Follow the Leader." A month prior, the same group and Captain Feathersword came by for a shoot.[5] They also launched a new song, "Sprout Around the Clock," to promote their first week on Sprout, and introduced a new character from the Wiggly Waffle block, JB. The group appeared on July 23, 2011 to celebrate their 20th birthday, with Dennisha and Chica throwing them a surprise birthday party.[6] Jeff was absent that appearance, as he was in the hospital.
To prepare for the band's arrival, Sprout for Parents came up with ways to get Sproutlets moving based on their song lyrics. (link)
The new generation Wiggles were introduced in 2013, several months before the PBS Kids brand was dropped from the channel's name, and starred on the Sunny Side Up Show with Chica and Sean and sang their then-new song "Do the Propeller!" and played a guessing game about the colored shirts, where Lachy mentioned that his shirt is the same color as Barney. The Wiggles also appeared on Sprout House, singing the same song.
Wiggle and Learn also aired on NBC Kids when the block was launched, and was replaced by The Chica Show the following year.
On June 20th, 2015, the band's shows stopped airing on Sprout along with a few other shows to prepare for the arrival of the tenth anniversary rebrand, despite still being on Sprout On Demand and Sprout NOW. The first two seasons of Ready, Steady, Wiggle! returned on June 5th, 2017, three months before the launch of Universal Kids on September 9th of that year. Despite the rebrand, Ready, Steady, Wiggle! stayed on the channel until it was removed from the schedule on March 11th, 2019.
Games
Notes
- Anthony Field, Greg Page, and Murray Cook met in graduate school for early childhood education.
- The Big Red Car has driven 500,000 miles across five continents.
- Five Wiggles albums have gone platinum in Australia.
- The Wiggles began touring the United States as the intermission act for Barney.
- The Wiggles can be seen on TV in more than 100 countries worldwide including the US, Japan, the UK and in the South Pacific. In addition, there have been Wiggles in Taiwan and Latin America.
- As of 2021, there have been eight members of The Wiggles to further signify diversity.
- The Wiggles have been quite popular and profitable for Sprout, with their own programming block, a long run-time on the channel, much promotion, and many appearances on The Sunny Side Up Show.
- A few songs from Wiggly Waffle were on Let's Eat!, except for the Wiggly Waffle theme and The Wiggles Say Goodbye.
- Chica and Ricky[7] often dressed up as Captain Feathersword.
- Wiggly Waffle only aired Sam-era episodes, while The Let’s Go Show and The Sprout Sharing Show aired the Greg-era episodes, the latter also later aired third generation episodes.
- Sprout cut down many episodes to an 11-minute runtime, removing certain segments and songs.
- "Everybody Clap, Everybody Sing," the first documentary about the band and released about their twentieth anniversary, was released on Sprout On Demand in 2011.[8]
Episodes
See List of The Wiggles episodes
Connections
- Dennisha Pratt sang "Miss Polly Had a Dolly" in Apples & Bananas
- Al Roker was the Orange Wiggle in 2011's "Ukulele Baby," singing "Thank You Mr. Weatherman."
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