Janice Burgess, creator of the beloved children's TV series "The Backyardigans," is dead at 72. The former Nickelodeon executive had breast cancer.

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Janice Burgess in 2022. She created the animated series “The Backyardigans,” which ran on Nickelodeon from 2004 to 2013. Brett Pierce By Remy Tumin and John Yoon ...

Janice Burgess, Creator of ‘The Backyardigans,’ Dies at 72 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 ...

Janice Burgess, creator of Nickelodeon’s “The Backyardigans,” died on Saturday in hospice care in Manhattan, according to The New York Times. She was 72.