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New girl on ‘Sesame,’ DIY wants a stud!
The 37th season of “Sesame Street” premieres Monday on PBS (7 a.m. on KLRU Channel 18).
The new season touts the arrival of Abby Cadabby — the first new girl Muppet to join the program in more than a decade. Last Sunday’s New York Times magazine included a nice little piece on the pink-pigtailed girl.
The Muppets on “Sesame Street,” you may recall, are primarily male: Bert and Ernie, Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch, Big Bird, etc. The females tend to be supporting players, like Zoe and Prairie Dawn.
But Abby is conceived as a female lead, which should make life a bit more interesting … or not. Do preschoolers notice the difference? It never occurred to my son, when he was a “Sesame Street” junkie, that most of the main characters were guys. Nor did any number of girl kids we knew who watched the show.
Anyway, now we’ve got a girl who’s really a girl and who will be front and center all season. Who is this new potential mega-star? Abby is a fairy, a magical creature, complete with wings, a wand and sparkles in her hair. Very pink.
Beside Her Pinkness, the new season also will feature many celebrity guests and pop-culture parodies. Monday’s installment includes a spoof of the multiple “Law & Order” series. The PBS version is called “Law & Order: Special Letters Unit M.”
Celebrities include Grammy winner John Legend, Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx, “Today” host Matt Lauer, comedian Amy Sedaris and “Grey’s Anatomy” star T.R. Knight.
And look for parodies including “Outrageous Makeover: Home Edition,” with Grover in the role of Ty Pennington, and “Survival: Musical Chairs,” with a Muppet version of Jeff Probst at the helm.
Are you a stud?
DIY Network, cable TV’s do-it-yourself mecca, is searching for the next home improvement expert. Gals and guys who think they know the difference between a nut and a bolt could be the next DIY home improvement host!
The winner of DIY’s Stud Finder Search will be chosen “live� on a national morning show in October 2006 and will land a starring role as host of a home improvement series that will debut in early 2007.
To find out how to enter the contest, go to www.DIYnetwork.com, beginning Tuesday. The search continues through Sept. 30.
And please let us know if you’re a Stud Contender!
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