''Kiosko'' was an unsold
television pilot
A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie), in United States television, is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell a show to a television network or other distr ...
for a multicultural music education television series for children produced by
KPBS television in
San Diego, California
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. It was nominated in 2008 for an Emmy award under the Children's Program or Special Category, Pacific Southwest Chapter of the National Television Academy.
Emmy 2008 Nominations
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The show's focus was on music education, using various forms of music from around the globe. It featured a combination of live action, puppetry, and animation, similar to ''Sesame Street
''Sesame Street'' is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children's Television Workshop until June 2000) ...
''
.
The pilot for the show was aired in August 2007, but the show was never picked up.
Staff
* Creators: Miguel-Angel Soria
Miguel-Angel Soria is a Chicano community artist and activist from San Diego, California. He sometimes goes by the pen-name osokodiako.
Early life
Born in Tijuana, Soria was raised a few blocks from Tijuana's Avenida Revolucion, he and his fam ...
, Alejandra M. Gomez
* Music: Kevin P. Green
* Artistic Director / Associate Producer: Fernado Flores
* Associate Producer: Tim Foley ''(from the Irish folk music
Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland.
In ''A History of Irish Music'' (1905), W. H. Grattan Flood wrote that, in Gaelic Ireland, there we ...
group Skelpin
Skelpin is an Irish folk music group based in San Diego, California. They perform a fusion of Irish Music and Spanish Flamenco, with Middle-Eastern percussion and have toured with this Irish Fusion globally.
Skelpin is associated with the "Greening ...
; also one of the show's writers and actors)''
See also
*The Biscuit Brothers
''The Biscuit Brothers'' is a half-hour Emmy-award winning public television program produced in Austin, Texas. It was first aired on KLRU in 2004 and then aired nationwide in 2005. The program uses a mixture of live-action, puppetry, and anima ...
''(similar music series for children)''
References
External links
Kiosko
(official website)
Puppetry
Unaired television pilots
Television pilots not picked up as a series
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