Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures



Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures (originally promoted as The Adventures of Bert and Ernie) is a new series developed by Sesame Workshop in which clay animation versions of Bert and Ernie use their imaginations to travel to strange places and into entertaining situations. The series were was pre-sold to various overseas markets and added to Sesame Street in season 39.

Each episode begins with the puppet versions of Bert and Ernie, looking at photographs and scrapbooks to bring back memories. The article also states that the cast will include Ernie's Rubber Duckie and Bert's pet pigeon Bernice, as well as 'relatives we've never seen before' and furniture that changes shapes.

Two seasons of 26 five-minute episodes each are being produced. The first season is tentatively to debut in September 2008.

The animation for the series will be produced by Italy's Misseri Studio.

Billy Aronson has scripted four segments: "Pirates," "Cavemen," "Scuba Divers" and "Bakers."

Stations

 * Germany: NDR
 * UK: Five's Milkshake preschool block
 * Disney Channel Asia
 * Australia: ABC
 * Denmark: DR-TV
 * India: Cartoon Network
 * Israel: HOP
 * The Netherlands: NPS/Zeppelin
 * Norway: NRK
 * Spain: Disney Channel Spain
 * Sweden: SVT

Trivia
Ernie and Bert were previously seen molded in clay form by Stef de Reuver for the book Where's the Duckie?.