Barney the television dinosaur has been given a reprieve from extinction, and he may end up being saved. Nothing is sure yet, but producers of the “Barney & Friends” public-television show for ...

Barney’s story starts in late 1987 in Allen, Texas. At the time, a former teacher named Sheryl Leach had a two-year old son, Patrick. She struggled to find videos that held his attention. “I was a ...

`Barney & Friends,” the new children’s show featuring a purple dinosaur — Connecticut Public Television’s biggest production effort ever — will not be renewed for funding by the national Public ...

Why do we revisit things we loved as kids, and what is the lasting power of this media? A new seven-part podcast looks for answers in a great big, purple dinosaur. And if you are of a certain age, you ...

You know Larry Rifkin’s face from old CPTV pledge drives or from his appearances on the televised UConn women’s basketball games for years after they first began being broadcast in the mid-1990s.