WTF? This is proof the world is coming to an end:
PBS has decided that it is over the “rainbow.”
The once popular “Reading Rainbow,” hosted by LeVar Burton, aired its final episode Friday, wrapping a more than two-decade run of teaching kids how to read.
Production on new episodes stopped several years ago, PBS said. Along with the end of the broadcasts, the “Reading Rainbow” site at pbskids.org will be discontinued in December.
But the program, which premiered in 2003, will remain available for classrooms with off-air educational rights in effect for a year, according to a PBS Web site.
PBS and member station WNED, producer of “Reading Rainbow,” are in discussions to create a literacy Web site and to continue the show’s local story contests for kids on a national level.
I must add that I always found it funny the jobs Levar Burton took– he was pimp, then he was on Star Trek, and then the best job ever– Reading Rainbow. I watched this show at home, at school, at the doctor’s office. If you are an eighties baby it was impossible NOT to be influenced by Reading Rainbow one way or another. We will miss you…
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