Arthur

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'Arthur', The Longest-Running Children's Show In U.S. TV History ... (Deadline)

Arthur, the longest-running children's animated series in the history of American television, has ended with its 25th season.

In the winter of 2022, the 25th and final season of Arthur will debut. As the group reunites at Sugar Bowl Cafe, the dessert parlor they would go to as kids, Arthur shows the group what he’s working on and they all reveal what they’ve been doing. Arthur, the longest-running children’s animated series in the history of American television, has ended with its 25th season.

Arthur series finale time jumped to cast original actor, 20 years later (Polygon)

PBS Kids staple Arthur has ended in February 2022. The series finale brought back the original actor for one last hurrah and showed a flash-forward ...

But while the show itself is ending, there is more Arthur content on the horizon. Hirsch says that they didn’t want to go with obvious options, and instead show kids that life is full of twists and turns. With a blend of humor and honesty, Arthur tackled learning about different cultures, grappling with illness, and dealing with the traumatic aftermath of a school fire, among other things.

<em>Arthur</em> Ends After 25 Seasons, Series Finale Shows ... (PEOPLE.com)

The series finale came at the conclusion of the iconic show's 25th season, making it the longest-running kids animated series in history in the U.S. The finale ...

It still excites me that we can come up with stories that are going to be interesting and helpful to children." "So each year, the writers and the producers sit down to decide what kind of subject matter we want to deal with. To me, it felt evergreen, like it was never going to end but it did end, we finished the last episode, season 25, two years ago."

'Arthur' Gang Is Grown Up In PBS Series Finale (Today.com)

Chances are, if you have been either a kid or a parent in the past 25 years, you've encountered Arthur, the beloved aardvark protagonist of the PBS ...

But even though the series is ending, Arthur is not going away. “The idea occurred to me that this whole series has been something Arthur has created,” head writer Peter K. Hirsch told the Los Angeles Times. “So the suggestion is this has all been his memoir. "As a kid, this show brought me so much joy when I would watch it after a long day from school." Muffy is running for mayor of Elwood City, and Buster is a teacher. #Arthur25" There are several touches, callbacks, and Easter eggs in the finale that bring the series full circle.

The final episode of the cartoon 'Arthur' ends a 25-season run on PBS (Boise State Public Radio)

In the series finale which aired Monday, all the characters all grown up. Arthur's sister D.W. is a police officer, his friend Buster is a teacher and ...

The final scene shows Arthur revealing his latest project, a memoir that starts at the beginning of the series with a major twist at the end. I'm Rachel Martin. Yesterday, the final episode of the cartoon "Arthur" ended a 25-season run on PBS. And now it's the future. And Arthur himself has become a graphic novelist.

'Arthur' Creator on Ending the Beloved Series After 25 Years ... (Variety)

Marc Brown, author of the 'Arthur' books and producer of the animated series, discusses ending the show after 25 years.

But like I said, I love the fact that I can walk into a school in Harlem and talk to the kids, and they all think he’s Black. And we don’t have to really discuss it. I said to myself, “I want a job someday that I love.” And I got fired from a few jobs that didn’t work and I wasn’t right for. And any child can walk into a story and feel an affinity with any of the characters that they want to identify with. My favorite thing to do is visit a school and talk and share with kids about my job and how much I love it. Frankly, that was the hardest thing for me to deal with when this whole television extension of “Arthur” began, because I had him all to myself, and all of a sudden, I had to share him with with other people. And the magic that all of these characters happening to be animals levels the playing field. There’s the color of the characters, but also the fact that the theme song is performed by Ziggy Marley, and there’s a lot of jazz music and other elements that feel influenced by Black cultures. And he used to talk about the space between the screen and the child. We would come to these meetings with ideas and hope that the writers would feel an affinity for some of them. But when we started “Arthur” 25 years ago, we didn’t have a lot of the technology that we have today, and we want to try some new things and see how we can play with those to reach kids. And tangentially, I was involved in some of the stories, because every year we would have a writers’ meeting at the beginning of a new season. That wasn’t my idea — I like to have Arthur be front and center!