After about 20 years, dear, long -running children’s series “Reading Rainbow” is back, this time on Kidzuko YouTube Channel.
The first of the four episodes conducted by Librarian and Literacy Advocate, Mychal Threets will be released on Saturday at 10 am. Others will leave on later Saturday. Adam becomesJohn Legend, Chrissy TegainGabrielle Union and Jamie Chung will appear from “Dancing with the Stars” along with Rale Arnold and Ezra Sosa.
Threets, which goes by Mychal Librarian On social media, steps in original host shoes Lever BurtonThreets broke the reboot news on their channels on Tuesday. Kidzuko released a trailer.
“I was raised on reading Rainbow, Lever Burton is my hero,” Threets wrote on Instagram. “I am a reader, I am a librarian because reading Lever Burton and Rainbow so powerful we believe that we are in books, we are everywhere.”
The original “Reading Rainbow” premiered in 1983 and became a wildly successful approach to use television to inspire children’s love to read and make connections between children and books. It ended production in 2006, won a pipodi award and 26 Amemis.
Kidzuko is operated by Sony Pictures Television. There are reports of the digital-only series with vertical videos, as the federal government has abolished $ 1.1 billion allocated for public broadcasting.
The original chain used to run at public television stations across the country and was often used in schools.
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The story first went on September 30, 2025, and updated on 2 October 2025 to add a photo of Mychal Threets.