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No luck searching for "preschool tv show clock 2000" or similar terms.
Maybe a local children's program on PBS? In the northeastern U.S., there's a possibilty the program was Canadian, too. Sorry, this is a tough request.
The format sounds eerily similar to Tweenies, down to events being controlled by a clock and there being different "Times" and there being two girls and two boys, all of them different colors. Where it falls down though is that the characters were puppets and the setting being a lot more colorful than what you're describing.
FWIW, the Tweenies set was far from "an infinitely large blank white room" — I remember it being a lot more colourful. Also, the girls (Bella and Fizz) were blue and yellow and the boys (Milo and Jake) were purple and orange.
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Yeah, I did say that it was a lot more colorful, didn't I? I just said that certain things about it feel quite similar.
Hm, I'll ask her. It's possible she was misremembering some things.
A friend told me about a show she really wanted to find and I couldn't recognize it myself, so I ended up here. Copy-pasted from discord, with permission:
- i must have seen it between the years of 2013 to 2017, and in the northeast united states.
- i do not recall the channel the show aired on, or what time it was.
- the show was not a cartoon, in fact there were no animated aspects at all. it was also not a puppet show. there were live actors in suits playing the characters.
- it was a show targeted towards a preschool demographic, with educational aspects.
- the show's setting was an infinitely large blank white room with a large pillar situated in the center. situated on the pillar was a yellow analogue clock and four doors; one red, one yellow, one blue, and one green.
- the show had a disembodied male narrator.
- at the start of every episode, the narrator would read the clock—-which displayed a different time each episode—-and tell the viewer it was time for "our friends" to come out and play. the friends he is referring to are the main characters.
- there were two girls and two boys; the two girls were red & yellow, and the boys were blue & green. i do not recall what species the characters were, or their names. their colours corresponded to the doors, those doors belonged to them.
- there were three topics of discussion throughout each episode. one character, let's say red, would ask a question. another character, let's say blue, would say something along the lines of "i can help you with that!" and open their door to reveal a short cinematic.
- as mentioned previously, the cinematic focused on an early educational aspect, such as science, literacy, and occupations.
- there were two educational periods at a time, before the narrator popped in to say it was either play time or lunch time, depending on the episode.
- play time consisted of the characters playing with blocks or other toys that were randomly dispersed throughout the blank white room. lunch time consisted of them talking about what they brought for lunch. it was usually the average "healthy food" a parent would encourage their young child to eat.
- after the third cinematic, the narrator would look at the clock and tell the viewers it was time for their friends to go home, and the characters waved goodbye and go back up the tubes they entered through.
That's all. Anything would be a huge help.