Universal Kids

Universal Kids is an educational cable channel, launched in 2005 as PBS Kids Sprout, and was a joint venture between PBS, Sesame Workshop, Mattel, and NBCUniversal. The latter fully acquired the channel in 2012, leaving out the PBS Kids branding, and launched NBC Kids, a Saturday morning block of Sprout programming. In 2017, Deirdre Brennan announced Sprout will become a daytime block on a new channel called Universal Kids.

One of Universal Kids’ highest rated original series was The Chica Show, which itself was a spin-off of the programming block The Sunny Side Up Show. The Chica Show debuted on Sprout in Fall 2012, and reruns continued to air until the channel’s name change. However, the show did return to Universal Kids’ schedule on May 20, 2019, along with acquired shows Moon and Me and Mofy. As of 2020, it is unknown where the show went, but the website page is still up and is still promoted on the channel’s social media accounts.