What's Your News? is a children's television program centering around ants and an anteater putting on a news show featuring real kids' stories, helping viewers make the home-to-world transition with an understanding that there are children just like them. The show aired on CBC in Canada, Nick Jr. in the United Kingdom, and Sprout in America.
Plot
From SproutOnline.com:
- "What's Your News features anchormen Grant, an ant, and Antony, an anteater who thinks he's an ant. Grant tries to keep it all together, and Antony ... well, Antony's Antony. Sometimes he's helpful, and sometimes he's not. But he's always funny, and he always loves to hear children's news!" (link)
History on Sprout
The show premiered on Sprout on December 31st, 2010 (New Year's Eve). To commemorate the show's arrival, The Sunny Side Up Show's weekly theme for its premiere week was "News" and Grant phone called Dennisha and Chica.[1] The show aired at 11:30AM ET, replacing Chloe's Closet on Sunny .
It stopped airing Sprout less than two years later, on March 11th, 2012, along with Franny's Feet and Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies. Despite the show's removal, its SproutOnline.com page remained up for some time. The following day, Chloe's Closet returned to The Sunny Side Up Show and took back its 11:30AM ET time slot. A few months later, Chloe was replaced by The Chica Show.
Games
Gallery
Criticism and Controversy
While watching the episode "Broken Ankle," in which Liam and Michael put on a puppet show to cheer the former's injured sister Claire up, with her Sproutlet, grown-up sprout Stephane Dunn thought she heard a certain word that starts with the letter N instead of "never." In response to this, the segment was accordingly edited and both Jenni Glenn and producer Jocelyn Stevenson spoke to Dunn.
Notes
- When the show aired on TV, there would be a reddish-magenta background that occasionally said "tell Chica your news at SproutOnline.com" or "share your news at SproutOnline.com."