Photo by Cameron Wittig

Andrew Bird is in the beginning stages of launching his own television program for kids, as Hit Fix reports. In an interview with Hit Fix at the Sundance Film Festival, Bird said the live-action program, to be titled "Professor Socks' TV Show", is inspired by vintage "Sesame Street" other Jim Henson projects.

According to Hit Fix, Bird will play the character of a "confused professor who's out to lunch on most scientific facts." Other characters include a librarian, an "animatronic fox," and a very psychedelic-sounding "magic dresser full of magic socks." When he puts on those socks, he is transported "to other vocational worlds." Those worlds will be like "field trips" to "show kids what they could possibly be," from "how they make bubblegum to the ballet."

Music-wise, the show will serve as a "good excuse to play the old jug band stuff, the old hot jazz stuff."

Bird himself is father of a two-year-old, and a sock enthusiast, most often performing concerts without shoes on.

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