Janice Burgess, the creator behind the hit Nick Jr. series The Backyardigans, is dead. She was 72. Burgess died of breast cancer in hospice care on Saturday, Brown Johnson, a longtime friend, told The ...
"T he Backyardigans" creator and former Nickelodeon executive Janice Burgess has died at 72. Representatives for Nickelodeon confirmed Burgess' death to USA TODAY in a statement on Tuesday. “We are ...