My Week with 2016: Dot.

 

Madeline Fretz - Dot. is an animated series about technology created by Industrial Brothers and the Jim Henson Company based on a book by Randi Zuckerberg, whose brother Mark is known for founding Facebook. In Canada, the series has also aired on CBC as part of its CBC Kids block.

Image from Brown Girl Gumbo

The show premiered on Sprout on October 22nd, 2016, and to promote, Sprout held a launch party at The Black Tap and Randi Zuckerberg appeared on Sunny Side Up, probably the only time they had a series creator on the show, already a celebrity cult at the time.

With Sprout's closure in 2017, the show continued to air on the then-new Universal Kids channel, which had a Sprout-branded preschool block when it launched. The show is one of the only Sprout shows to still air on Universal Kids, and its page is still up on the channel's website.

My Week with 2016: Floogals

 

Madeline Fretz - Floogals was a British-American children's show from Jellyfish Pictures and Zodiak Kkds about three tiny aliens discovering the human world.

One of Sprout's original series, the show premiered on the channel on January 23rd, 2016. The show continued to air on Universal Kids even after Sprout closed.

The show stopped airing on Universal Kids in 2020, although its page is still up on the channel's website.