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Children's television series are television programmes designed for and marketed to children, normally broadcast during the morning and afternoon. The purpose of the shows is mainly to entertain and sometimes to educate the young audience about basic life skills or ideals.
Programmes vary in their intended age group audience and style of presentation. Some take the form of game shows or comedies, and many take the form of animated series, although early animations were often intended for an adult audience.
Children's television is nearly as old as television itself, with early examples including shows such as Blue Peter, Captain Tugg, The Magic Roundabout, Howdy Doody, Clangers, Flower Pot Men and The Singing Ringing Tree. In the United States, early children's television was often a marketing branch of a larger corporate product such as Disney, and it rarely contained an educational element. Though there is some debate on the intended audience, later non-educational children's television programs included the science fiction programs of Irwin Allen (most notably Lost in Space), the fantasy series of Sid and Marty Krofft, and the extensive cartoon empire of Hanna-Barbera.
Many children's programmes also have a large adult following, sometimes in appreciation of their quality and educational value, and sometimes among adults who watched the shows as children or with their own children and now have a nostalgic emotional connection.
Propaganda for children
Educational Children television series aim to develop children's personalities and social life by exploring many aspects of life. For example, Barney & Friends, a worldwide popular children program explores many different life situations to help the child build better self esteem. Tomorrow's Pioneers(Arabic: رواد الغد; also The Pioneers of Tomorrow) is a children's program, broadcast since April 13, 2007 on the official Palestinian Hamas television station, Al-Aqsa TV (Arabic: مرئية الأقصى قناة الأقصى). The program deals with may life aspects Palestinian children face under the Israelian attacks killing many civillians and innocent children, this way setting them up to be the future fighters and suicide bombers of Hamas.
Assoud (Arabic: اسود; also rendered as Assud), a Bugs Bunny-like rabbit character whose name means lion was introduced after his brother, the previous co-host, Nahoul died of illness.[1] In explaining why he is called Assoud (lion), when Arnoub (rabbit) would be more appropriate, Assoud explains that "A rabbit is a term for a bad person and coward. And I, Assoud, will finish off the Jews and eat them." [1][2] Before Nahoul's death, Assoud lived in Lebanon; he returned "in order to return to the homeland and liberate it."[2] Assoud has hinted in episode 113 that he will be replaced by a tiger when he is martyred.
