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Purple Panda and Donkey Hodie are two characters from the series “Donkey Hodie.” (Courtesy of Fred Rogers Productions)
In 2018, David and Adam Rudman began work on their latest project, “Donkey Hodie.”
Truth is, Fred Rogers came up with the original idea decades prior.
After three years of hard work – with plenty of starts and stops due to the pandemic – the PBS Kids series will premiere at 11:30 a.m. Monday, May 3, on New Mexico PBS. It will rebroadcast more than a dozen times through June 26.
The series is from Fred Rogers Productions, home of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” and Spiffy Pictures.
It is inspired by the funny, quirky side of beloved children’s TV pioneer Rogers, the imaginative puppet series for preschoolers follows the adventures of Donkey Hodie, a “can-do” little yellow donkey with a bright magenta mane – and the granddaughter of the original Donkey Hodie character from “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.”