PBS Kids is celebrating Earth Month (April) with two new movies from the TV shows Wild Kratts and Nature Cat.
In Wild Kratts: Our Blue and Green World, premiering 1 April, everyone’s favourite creature adventurers, and brothers, Chris and Martin Kratt, disagree on what’s better: blue oceans or green forests. Aviva takes on the role of referee to demonstrate how oceans and forests work together to make our living planet, just like Martin and Chris need to keep working together. It’s up to the gang to get Martin and Chris back in sync in time to save planet Earth from Zach and Paisley Paver’s villainous plans.
A new game, World Rescue, accompanies the movie special in April and will be available on the PBS Kids Games app and PBS Kids website. New episodes of Wild Kratts will premiere from 2 April.
Nature Cat’s Nature Movie Special Extraordinaire will debut on 22 April – Earth Day. In the new movie, Nature Cat and his friends are trying to figure out what their movie special is about when Sir Galahad (voiced by Chris Parnell), who’s now anointed himself King Galahad, begins taking things from nature to makes his castle look more beautiful. It’s up to the gang to show him a better way to appreciate the natural beauty of their world before he does more damage to their favourite place. The special features three original songs written by Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winning Bill Sherman and performed by the cast: Taran Killam, Kate McKinnon, Bobby Moynihan, and Kate Micucci.
New short-form series Nature Chat With Nature Cat will debut digitally on 22 April. In the shorts, Nature Cat speaks directly to fans about how they can help make the world a better place. Harkening back to clips from across all five seasons of the series, with the help of his production assistant Gary the squirrel, Nature Cat explores ten different sustainability topics ranging from composting and water conservation to upcycling, avoiding food waste, and more.