A collaborative effort between Sesame Workshop here in the US, and Canada's CineGroupe, Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat, based on a series of children's books by best-selling author Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club), landed on PBS Kids in 2001. That was the good news. The bad news? One season of 40 episodes, and done.
Apparently, American children weren't interested in a series set in China in another age. Since the series' cancellation, however, Sagwa continues to air reruns across the globe, and remained on PBS for a while. PBS likely has it online at present.
Following is a sample open/close:
No rating. Never saw the show (I was at work when it was on).
2 comments:
You can be partially thankful you never did. The idea of a cat and her adventures in ancient China is original, but I was always put off by the show’s camera movement (panning, zooming).
That may be why it was cancelled.
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