A groundbreaking children’s television show is set to introduce a new character who is largely non-speaking and communicates with the help of a special speech tablet. “Carl the Collector,” which made ...

PBS Kids is expanding “Super Why’s Comic Book Adventures,” which debuted in 2023 as a series of shorts, into a full half-hour series set to debut in 2026. A spinoff of “Super Why,” which ran on PBS ...

PBS's chief executive told public television officials Thursday that it was cutting about 15% of its jobs due to the move by Republicans in Congress to eliminate all federal funding for public ...

PBS has eliminated almost 100 staff positions over the last several months because of a loss of federal funding, it said Thursday. The job cuts include 34 staff members who were notified Thursday that ...

Caillou may be inquisitive, yes, but he’s also whiny, and that seems to be one of the biggest knocks against the TV show. That, and Caillou seems to face zero consequences for his bad behavior. To put ...

So what is it that rankles Caillou viewers so? After all, the show seems inoffensive enough at first glance. Based on picture books by author Christine L’Heureux and illustrator Hélène Desputeaux, ...

Barney & Friends became the bane of children’s TV in the 1990s and Teletubbies inherited that dishonor in the 2000s, but 2010s-era parental scorn belonged to Caillou. The animated children’s series ...

The nonprofit will receive less revenue from its members, which are under pressure to make up for shortfalls of their own. By Benjamin Mullin PBS is cutting its current budget by more than a fifth to ...

You’ve seen the PBS logo in the news a lot lately. The current logo—three facial silhouettes in white and blue—has remained largely unchanged since Tom Geismar, the cofounder of the canonical ...

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