{"id":389,"date":"2008-05-13T10:36:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T16:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/npt08.wordpress.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2008-05-13T10:36:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T16:36:40","slug":"the-electric-company-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/2008\/05\/13\/the-electric-company-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"The Electric Company to Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/tec.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/tec.jpg\" alt=\"The Electric Company at sesameworkshop.org\/tec\" width=\"400\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/tec.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/tec-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cue the funk. It may have been the coolest show about reading ever, and it&#8217;s coming back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Electric Company<\/strong>, &#8220;Refitted for the age of hip-hop and informed by decades of further educational research on reading,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/12\/arts\/television\/12elec.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\"><strong>according to the New York Times<\/strong><\/a>, will return to public television in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the old one mixed with \u2018High School Musical\u2019 and a Dr Pepper commercial,\u201d Linda Simensky, senior director of programming for PBS Kids, told the Times.<\/p>\n<p>And some funk? Just a little?<\/p>\n<p>The original show ran from 1971-1977. Check out classic audio and video clips from the show &#8212; including the famous &#8220;banana in your ear&#8221; skit &#8212; at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sesameworkshop.org\/tec\/\">SesameWorkshop.org\/tec<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cue the funk. It may have been the coolest show about reading ever, and it&#8217;s coming back. 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