The backlash has been festering for ages. “As someone who’s watched many episodes, I still haven’t been able to actually understand what it’s trying to accomplish,” he says. Chow has two children - a 5-year-old daughter and a 2-year-old son - and says Caillou is one of very few shows that’s entirely banned in his home. “Caillou is definitely enemy number one on a lot of my friends’ lists,” said Andy Chow, a statehouse reporter for Ohio Public Radio. Even still, Caillou the show and Caillou the child inspire malice largely unparalleled among cartoons. An exchange student from the Canadian channel Télétoon, Caillou premiered on PBS in September 2000 and ran for 177 episodes before entering syndication in 2010.Ĭhildren’s educational television, a genre PBS pioneered, is notoriously difficult to perfect - a fidgety formula balancing entertainment, early developmental needs and parental tolerance. Whether their children are young or already grown, parents across the world greeted with glee the news that PBS has finally canceled Caillou, an animated show about a bald young boy, after 20 years on the air.Ĭalliou began life in 1989 as a children’s book series by Montreal author Christine L’Heureux and illustrator Hélène Desputeaux. Who will mourn for Caillou? Not parents, that’s for certain.
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