Nick Jr.

''This page details both the original Nick Jr. programming block and the separate channel. Programs on the list may have aired on either service.''



Nick Jr. is Nickelodeon's pre-school brand. It premiered as a weekday morning block on the Nickelodeon channel in 1988. The block is well-known for launching pre-school juggernauts like Blues Clues and Dora the Explorer, as well as being the US home of Canada's PAW Patrol. In its early years, it aired Pinwheel and some fondly-remembered anime such as The Noozles, The Adventure Of The Little Koala and Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics.

While the Nick Jr. block has existed since the late 1980s, Nick Jr. didn't get its own network until 2009, when it took over the channel space held by Noggin. (Noggin itself was eventually relaunched as a streaming app in 2015, serving as a separate brand.) The Nick Jr. block still airs every weekday on Nickelodeon. To help differentiate the two services, the channel is known on-air as the "Nick Jr. Channel." This name is used on the channel's screen bug (in the lower right corner of shows) and commercials.

Before creating its own original shows, the block was home to many classic off-network cartoons and foreign anime such as The World of David the Gnome, Muppet Babies, Belle and Sebastian and Rupert. The block was revamped in 1994 with mostly Nickelodeon-made programming with a new host, Face, who later was replaced by Piper O' Possum. Nowadays, the block has no host. Face was brought back, albeit with a new design, in a 2022 show called Face's Music Party, but his appearances are limited to that show and he does not appear in between other programs.

In the past, the Nick Jr. brand has extended to other channels. When Viacom (re-)merged with CBS in 2000, a new block was launched: Nick Jr. on CBS, complete with Face as its host. 2001 saw the block add programs from "normal" Nickelodeon, mostly programs to help stations meet the E/I quota, and it was renamed Nick on CBS, at least until 2004 when it reverted to only Nick Jr. shows. The block on CBS ended in 2006. Nick Jr. offshoots exist in other countries, namely the UK, where there is not one but two Nick Jr. channels: Nick Jr. and the appropriately-named Nick Jr. Too. Nick Jr. Too is known for airing extremely long-term marathons (usually one month) of various shows, including Peppa Pig (during which the channel rebrands itself as "Nick Jr. Peppa") and PAW Patrol (rebranding the channel to "Nick Jr. PAW Patrol").

From October 2012 to September 2015, the Nick Jr. Channel aired a late-night block called NickMom. As the name implies, it aired shows aimed at parents. The block's timing caused some controversy, as the Nick Jr. Channel only carried an Eastern Time Zone feed at the time, meaning that the block aired earlier in the day in some areas. This problem was solved in February 2013, with the launch of a separate West Coast feed for the Nick Jr. Channel.

Notable Nick Jr. channel programming includes:

 * Allegra's Window
 * The Backyardigans
 * Bob the Builder
 * Blues Clues
 * Blue's Room
 * Bubble Guppies
 * Dino Dan
 * Dora the Explorer
 * The Elephant Show
 * Eureekas Castle
 * Fifi and the Flowertots (Non-USA)
 * Franklin
 * The Fresh Beat Band
 * Fresh Beat Band of Spies
 * Go, Diego, Go!
 * Gullah Gullah Island
 * Jacks Big Music Show
 * LazyTown
 * The Littl' Bits
 * Little Bear
 * Little Bill
 * Maggie and the Ferocious Beast
 * Maisy
 * Max and Ruby
 * Miss Spiders Sunny Patch Friends
 * Muppet Babies
 * My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Germany)
 * Ni Hao, Kai-Lan
 * Olivia
 * Oobi
 * Oswald
 * PAW Patrol
 * Pinky Dinky Doo
 * Pinwheel
 * Rugrats
 * Rupert
 * Team Umizoomi
 * Toot & Puddle
 * Wonder Pets
 * The World of David the Gnome
 * Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!
 * Yo Gabba Gabba!