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LazyTown is an Icelandic children's television series created by and starring aerobics champion Magnus Scheving, who also plays the character Sportacus. Originally produced in English, it has since been broadcast in dozens of languages around the world. Designed to encourage healthy lifestyles among children, the series was based on Scheving's stage play Afram Latibaer!, which was itself adapted from a book that Scheving wrote in 1995. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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2004 1
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Source LazyTown (Wikipedia)
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1. LazyTown (Wikipedia)
  • Body, United States broadcast
    the show premiered on Nickelodeon on the Nick Jr. block on August 16, 2004, and ended on October 15, 2007.
  • In Medium: Television, Article lead sentence
    LazyTown (Icelandic: Latibær; Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈlatʰiˌpaiːr̥]) is an Icelandic children's television series created by and starring aerobics champion Magnús Scheving, who portrays the character Sportacus.
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