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Blue's Clues
1996 · TV series · 30 min episodes · 7 seasons
Created by Traci Paige Johnson, Angela Santomero, Todd A. Kessler
Blue's Clues is a colorful and learning series that is targeted at the younger crowd, but can be enjoyed by all. The host, Steve Burns, invites viewers daily into the Blue's Clues house to help him out, learn and have fun. The show is based around the host looking for three clues that Blue provides by labelling them with a pawprint to figure something out and in the process, having an adventure.
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let's pretend it's a TV show. Y Combinator is Blues Clues. pg was Steve. we're currently in the first part of the Joe Era. Joe was actually better than Steve in many ways[1], but he just isn't Steve, and everyone, including the audience, is trying not to notice, because yay, new Blue's Clues.
Now, when it fully pivots into Blue's Room, run.
[1] ways that don't include Steven Drozd.
"Broadcast has to reach a massive audience to stand any chance of reaping a return"
While I sympathise with geuis's complaint, I agree that that this is a limitation of the broadcast format. This is a particular problem with children's (semi-)educational programming - every Blue's Clues episode has to work for the 3 year old that just switched on for the first time, and can't build up so that by 5 the child is still being challenged.
I hope you are right and this is a problem that can be addressed by the move to on-demand services.