The popular Barney & Friends ran on PBS from 1992 until 2010, and the new series will premiere next year. Previously, the purple dinosaur was played by an actor in a costume, but this reboot will ...

When "Barney & Friends" first debuted on PBS in 1992, kids went bananas for the huggable purple dinosaur. The show was also ...

A big break on CPTV Larry Rifkin wasn’t just ... The very next year, 1992, “Barney and the Backyard Gang” hit PBS as “Barney & Friends” and found its way into the homes of millions ...

But PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting had recently put out a call for more preschool programming. And as a programmer, Larry understood how important it was to listen to your audience.