ANIMATION legend Janice Burgess has died at the age of 72. Tributes have poured in for the screenwriter, best known for creating the Nickelodeon cartoon show The Backyardigans. Fracaswell Hyman, a ...

The creator of kids' TV show The Backyardigans has died aged 72. Janice Burgess' passing was confirmed in a heartbreaking social media post by animation writer Fracaswell Hyman. Penning the news on ...

American TV screenwriter and producer Janice Burgess passed away at the age of 72. Burgess was known for the creation of Nickelodian's iconic children's TV show, The Backyardigans, which ran from 2004 ...

Janice Burgess, a former Nickelodeon executive and the creator of the popular preschool tv series The Backyardigans, has died in Manhattan. She was 72. The cause of death was breast cancer, according ...

Janice Burgess, the Emmy-winning creator of Nickelodeon's The Backyardigans, has died. She was 72. According to The New York Times, Burgess died Saturday in hospice care in Manhattan. On Tuesday, ...

Emmywinner Janice Burgess has died aged 72, according to her former colleague and friend (Picture: WireImage Nickelodeon has paid tribute to ‘kind and creative’ Janice Burgess after her death at the ...

She revealed the inspiration behind the popular kids' show The Backyardigans ANIMATION legend Janice Burgess has died at the age of 72. Tributes have poured in for the screenwriter, best known for ...

ANIMATION legend Janice Burgess has died at the age of 72. Tributes have poured in for the screenwriter, best known for creating the cartoon show The Backyardigans ...