Oobi (TV series)
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| Genre |
Children's Puppetry |
| Created by | Josh Selig |
| Directed by | Josh Selig Scott Preston |
| Starring |
Tim Lagasse Stephanie D'Abruzzo Noel MacNeal Tyler Bunch |
| Theme music composer | Jared Faber |
| Composer(s) |
Christopher North Jeffrey Lesser |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
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| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Josh Selig |
| Producer(s) | Lisa Simon |
| Location(s) |
Kaufman Astoria Studios Astoria, Queens, New York |
| Cinematography | Randy Drummond |
| Editor(s) | John Tierney Ken Reynolds |
| Running time | 2 minutes (shorts) 22 minutes (full-length) |
| Production company(s) | Little Airplane Productions |
| Distributor | Viacom Media Networks |
| Release | |
| Original network | Noggin |
| Picture format | |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release |
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 "Dog Problems" Official Music Video, December 1, 2006, Nettwerk Music
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Oobi is an American children's television series created by Josh Selig of Little Airplane Productions. It began as a series of shorts commissioned by the Noggin network during a three-year period in which all of the channel's programming was co-produced by Nickelodeon and Sesame Workshop. Full-length episodes of the show began airing on April 7, 2003, and the series ended its run on February 11, 2005.
Selig created the series shortly after leaving Sesame Street, which he had worked on since it began production in the late 1960s. He developed the idea for Oobi while watching bare-handed puppeteers audition for Ulica Sezamkowa, the Polish adaptation of Sesame Street. Roles on Oobi were offered to veteran puppeteers from related Sesame Workshop shows. The Jim Henson Company, which designed and built the puppets on Sesame Street, held a stake in Noggin at the time of Oobi's inception. Principal photography took place at Kaufman Astoria Studios, where Sesame Street is also taped.
The series follows four characters, represented by bare hand puppets, on their everyday adventures. It features Muppet performers Tim Lagasse, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Noel MacNeal, and Tyler Bunch in starring roles. Oobi's concept is based on a technique used by puppeteers learning to lip-sync, in which they use their hands and a pair of ping pong balls in place of a puppet. The characters' designs include plastic eyes and accessories such as hats and hairpieces. The puppeteers' thumbs are used to represent mouth movement, and their fingers flutter and clench to indicate emotions. The puppets have been compared to those of ventriloquist Señor Wences and were billed as "furless" Muppets in promotional statements.
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