Blue's Clues is frustrating

It looks like I'm turning into the children's TV expert on Wikipedia. First was The Wiggles' article, as I've stated here. Now my project is Blue's Clues.

I ran into that article early last summer, and saw that it was quite horrible. Then someone downgraded it from B-status (the third lowest) to "start," which is pretty bad and embarrassing. I suppose the problem lies in the fact that there aren't many parents of preschool-age children with the time to waste their time editing Wikipedia. Things are different with my situation--virtually unemployed with older kids who are developmentally young enough to watch these shows but old enough for school.

It's actually been interesting researching Blue's Clues, especially the way the producers used early childhood research to create the show. Everything was done for a reason, with research to back it up. I won't go into details here (I'll link it when I'm finished rewriting the article), but one of the reasons Blue's Clues has been so wildly successful is that it was able to tap into the way little kids think, learn, and watch television. The Wiggles' success is the music; BC's success is its structure and the way it present information. Very cool.

I say that BC is frustrating because of something I haven't been able to find, even after an entire morning of Google searches. When the show premiered in 1996, Nickelodeon showed the same episode for a week. When my seven-year old started watching it back in about 2001, they had ceased the practice, but resumed it shortly afterwards. At the current time, they show a different episode everyday.

There's all kinds of research out there that supports the effectiveness of repeating it daily, but I could find nothing (NOTHING!) about why they stopped the practice. I'm thinking about writing Nickelodeon about it; at the very least, I'm going to post the issue on BC's talk page.