"T he Backyardigans" creator and former Nickelodeon executive Janice Burgess has died at 72. Representatives for Nickelodeon confirmed Burgess' death to USA TODAY in a statement on Tuesday. “We are ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- No one can say it like Uniqua, the peerless, polka-dotted creature at the heart of the The Backyardigans. "I proclaim," she said, "This doth stink!" Her pickle, and that of her orange ...

Uniqua is a librarian by day, who with her horse Toronado avenges un-returned library books. When Tasha wants to take a book out and can't because Don Austin hasn't returned it Uniqua makes it her ...

Preschoolers unite! That could be called the credo of those Backyardigans -- Pablo the penguin, Tyrone the moose, Uniqua the purple spotted creature, Tasha the hippo and Austin the Kangaroo. These ...

The two-time Daytime Emmy winner and Nick Jr. exec said she put a lot of herself into the character Uniqua, whom she called a “ringleader.” By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Janice Burgess, the two-time ...

Janice Burgess, creator of the hit children’s series The Backyardigans, has died at the age of 72. No cause of death has been revealed, but the tragic news was confirmed by fellow animation writer ...

Janice Burgess, the two-time Daytime Emmy winner who created the beloved animated musical series The Backyardigans for Nickelodeon, has died. She was 72. Burgess died Saturday in hospice care in ...