Editing Sesame Park (section)

==''Sesame Park''==
[[Image:Tv sesame park katie.jpg|left|thumb|[[Muppet]] [[Katie (Sesame Street)|Katie]] on display at the CBC museum dressed as a princess]] [[Image:Tv sesame park basil the bear.jpg|right|thumb|[[Basil (Sesame Park)|Basil the Bear]] from Sesame Park, in a knight's armour. This puppet, along with fellow characters Katie, Chaos, and Louis are all on display in the [[CBC Museum]].]]
In 1996, the CBC decided to take on the job of producing different kinds of content for the series; specifically to have their own "street". Producer Shirley Greenfield and screenwriter [[Jill Golick]] decided to set the show in a park, rather than on an urban street. A new half-hour series entitled ''Sesame Park'' was born. The series premiered in September 1996.<ref name=":0" /> It joined the CBC Playground lineup on October 21, along with ''[[Wimzie's House]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Quill |first=Greg |date=2 October 1996 |title=Kids' CBC |page=B3 |newspaper=The Toronto Star |location=Toronto ON}}</ref>

The show's animated sequences were created in Toronto, while live-action segments were shot in [[Regina, Saskatchewan|Regina]], [[Vancouver]], and [[Winnipeg]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Gorman |first=Brian |date=31 October 2000 |title=Sesame Park's cast and crew - small but mighty; All-Canadian series consists of five talented puppeteers |pages=M19 |work=The Chronicle Herald}}</ref>

''Sesame Park'' was cancelled in 2001 for undisclosed reasons.{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}}

=== Characters ===
Added to the cast were a [[Muppet]] kitten named [[Chaos (Sesame Park)|Chaos]] (who is similar to [[Elmo]], serving the same role, and is named after Golick's own cat{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}}), and a human character named Ray. Basil was now played by [[Bob Stutt]].

Guest appearances included ''[[Red Green (character)|Red Green]]'', a Canadian situation-comedy character played by [[Steve Smith (comedian)|Steve Smith]],  [[Eric Peterson]] as [[Old King Cole]], and [[Janet-Laine Green]] as [[Goldilocks and the Three Bears|Goldilocks]].<ref name=":2" />

=== Content ===
About sixty percent of the new series was produced in Canada, with the remaining forty percent being segments from Children's Television Workshop.<ref name=":0" />