Barney's Back (You Have Been Warned)

[Mark Jeffries]

The purple dinosaur beloved by 80s and 90s pre-schoolers and hated by anyone older than 6 is returning to television with a new animated series that will air on Warners Discovery's Cartoonito pre-school block on Cartoon Network and streamed on Max's Cartoonito hub--Mattel, the company that currently owns the rights to Barney and produces "Barney's World" with Canada's Nelvana, will present a refreshed look at the annoyingly upbeat character:

https://www.thewrap.com/barney-reboot-cartoon-network-warner-bros-mattel/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking_news_7261807

Created by Texas housewife Sheryl Leach, Barney first gained popularity in a series of videos as a costumed character interacting with live kids (which included future stars Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato) that later became a highly successful PBS series (which led some to question that PBS had lowered its standards regarding children's programming) that eventually had served its purpose and went off of the PBS Kids schedule, like most of its shows other than "Arthur" and "Sesame Street."  It has appeared on other cable channels and online, but its popularity as a costumed character waned some years ago and Mattel and WBD think they can make him popular again as a cartoon.

[Bob Jersey]

Enough local events invested in phony versions that only captured the character's size, tweaking the shade of purple, swapping the green for another colour, changing the eyes, et al.

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Mark Jeffries, in part, May 10th:

[Doug Eastick]

I saw Barney (trademark compliant) at an outdoor theme park (Ontario Place) after his heyday.... on a very small stage, and all I could think about was Chris Farley "living in a van, down by the river"

/Doug
eas...@mcd.on.ca

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[Bob Jersey]

NPH is one of the judges -- and his partner David Burtka the set-up-the-premise person -- on Hulu's party-staging pseudocompetition Drag Me to Dinner, dropping end of this month.

https://www.tvinsider.com/1092132/drag-me-to-dinner-trailer-hulu/ (link)
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Mark Smith, through his digest, to Doug Eastick, Mark Jeffries, and moi, May 11th:

Re: Barney

Not the Barney I wanted to come back :-(

[Mark Jeffries]

SUPER DE DOOPER!

Mark Jeffries
spotl...@gmail.com

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