When Rifkin and other CPTV executives learned this, they wrote letters to their fellow PBS member stations urging them to get PBS to reconsider. The series was produced by CPTV and Lyrick Studios, and it was later bought by HIT Entertainment.Īlthough the series was a successful hit, PBS initially opted not to provide funding beyond the initial 30-episode run. The show debuted as Barney & Friends in 1992. Franklin and Rifkin convinced Leach to let CPTV revamp the concept for television. Franklin and Rifkin pitched the idea to all of their colleagues with preschoolers, and they all agreed that kids would love a Barney show. He pitched it to CPTV president, Jerry Franklin, whose preschool-age son had fell in love with it. Rifkin saw that Barney had appeal because he was not neurotic as Big Bird of Sesame Street. Rifkin thought the concept could be developed for PBS. In 1991, Connecticut Public Television executive Larry Rifkin rented one of the videos and became " mesmerized" by it. The first three video tapes featured actress Sandy Duncan. Leach then brought together a team who created a series of home videos, Barney And The Backyard Gang, initially released in 1988. She came up with the idea of a children's educational program after she noticed that her son outgrew Wee Sing Together, a children's songbook series published by Price Stern Sloan, and then recognized that there were no videos to appeal to her son. In November 2021, it was announced that a three-part Barney documentary series will premiere in 2022 on Peacock.īarney was created by Sheryl Leach of Dallas, Texas. In 2015, a revival was announced to premiere in 2017, but was delayed into an undated launch. The series featured the title character Barney, an anthropomorphic purple T-Rex dinosaur who conveys educational messages through songs, small dance routines and adventures with a friendly, huggable and optimistic attitude. The series based from the direct-to-video series, Barney And The Backyard Gang, that was released in periodic installments from Augto August 1, 1991, and produced by the Lyons Group. Reruns aired on PBS Kids Sprout from 2005-2015, and from December 17, 2017, onward on Sprout's successor network rebrand, Universal Kids. It also aired on the British children's block, Milkshake! on Channel 5. The series premiered on Apon PBS and ended on November 2, 2010. It was distributed by Lyons Partnership, CPT ( Connecticut Public Television), Lyrick Studios, Hit Entertainment, and produced by WNET in New York. Barney & Friends is an American children's live-action educational preschool television series created by Sheryl Leach.
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