[conservativeinbflo.]

Well...another one bites the dust. This makes me ill. I watched this show when I was little, when it first started. Of course something this valuable and wholesome can't stay afloat in a society where public schools explicitly teach kids how to administer oral sex. Just another example of how today's parents don't give two figs about their families. Load 'em up with pop and twinkies, and let them do whatever they please.

[AD from SpringBay]

I wonder if LeVar has bucked up?

[A-teamMom]

Yes, it is a good show. But there are so many other wholesome options for kids, too. For example, Discovery Kids channel has "Popular Mechanics for Kids," "Jaws and Claws," "Bonehead Detective," "Ultimate Guide to the Awesome" and "Prehistoric Planet." Those shows teach kids about science, math, history, etc. The Noggin channel has old episodes of "Sesame Street" and other PBS offerings.

I personally don't want my tax dollars funding PBS. The adult shows and specials are highly slanted to liberal ideas and causes. With such a plethora of offerings from which to choose, we don't need to fund public television or radio. I find it interesting that liberals in general bash corporate America, until they need money to save a pet project.

[tallhappy]

I only recently found out what a great show this is.

More recent ones, though, did seem to become infected with the liberal propaganda bug to some degree.

Just repeating the old ones would probably be fine. Still, it'd be the end of an era - an era I missed.

[dandelion]

Really - this is a great show, always has been. I don't normally go to bat for PBS, but the majority of their kid's shows are far and away the best on TV. For homeschoolers, PBS rocks.

I wonder if a person can just give to the shows they like? In that case, I have some change in the sofa - that's all I have for a savings account nowadays :P...

[SengirV]

Can't Seasame Street and Barney funnel some of their $$$ billions to RR?

[yankeedame]

...the PBS show's seventh Emmy Award for best children's television series.

The free market - like the Truth - will out. IOW, if this show is so great why are they pleading for money?

[rabidralph]

And "Reading Rainbow," which has counterintuitively used television to introduce children to a world of books

Then shouldn't he be doing his show from a library?

[Slainte]

PBS must not be using the "If PBS won't do it, who will?" slogan any longer.

Isn't it bizarre that a network that supposedly prides itself in presenting programming that couldn't possibly be found anywhere else is going to stick a fork in an award winning series because it doesn't have merchandising potential.

Oh, geez. Silly me, I forgot the hypocrisy is part and parcel of the liberal thought process...

[MattAMiller]

My third grade teacher used to show us this every Friday. I hope he find funding. No reason to take it out on parents though. They're giving money to Public Television which is appearently not managing it well.