Bailey, Franny, Kip, and Lulu invite you to join the party and help them learn. Below, watch a Word Party TV show trailer and a behind-the-scenes featurette, for the new children’s series, premiering on Netflix, Friday July 8, 2016. Back in January, Netflix had originally planned for a June 3rd debut.
The Word Party TV series voice cast includes Victor Yerrid, Elizabeth Roberts, Donna Kimball, John Munro Cameron, John Tartaglia, and Alon Williams. The first season of Word Party consists of 26 11-minute episodes. Word Party is created by Bruce McCulloch and produced by The Jim Henson Company. Directors include Bret Nelson, David Skelly, and Brian Henson.
Watch the official Word Party TV series trailer from Netflix. Netflix says, “Cuddly, cute and curious. These four baby animals love to play, dance and learn new words together.”
Don’t miss this Word Party featurette, giving you a behind-the-scenes look at the Word Party TV show. The animated new children’s series drops to Netflix on July 8.
Here is the Netflix description of the upcoming Word Party TV series.
Word Party is a vocabulary building show from The Jim Henson Company that follows four adorable baby animals as they sing, dance and play. The show invites our youngest viewers to help teach the baby animals new words, learn these new words themselves, and even celebrate these achievements with a “Word Party!” Word Party is produced using the groundbreaking Henson Digital Puppetry Studio, a proprietary technology from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop that allows puppeteers to perform digitally animated characters in real time – enabling the animation to be more lifelike and spontaneous.
What do you think? Do you like the sound of the Word Party TV series? Do you plan to stream the first season for any young learners in your home?
My now 6 month old son LOVES word party. I started turning it on when he was 3 months old and it kept him content and I felt that it really does teach him a lot. Now when it comes on and he is in his bouncy chair he just bounces and squeals because he is happy that it is coming on. When he even hears the start of the word party song it doesn’t matter what he is doing he turns around to watch it. When riding in the car at night (he doesn’t like that he can’t see… Read more »
My 8 month old granddaughter LOVES this show.. When she’s with me we watch this for hours.. she loves the songs & the character’s voices. I’m so glad I found this & was excited when I saw Season 2 pop up. Yay! Thanks, Netflix!