Nearly 20 years after production ceased, Reading Rainbow is returning, this time refocused for today's generation.
With original host LeVar Burton busy at the moment with the CW's revival of Trivial Pursuit, which officially begins season 2 next month, viral librarian Mychal Threets (Mychal The Librarian) takes over as the host, with the show now set in an actual library. Threets made his debut on social media during the pandemic 5 years ago, and, fittingly, the new Rainbow, which is set to start Saturday, will be streaming on YouTube through Sony's KidZuko channel, which also serves up this trailer:
Actors Adam DeVine, Jamie Chung, and Gabrielle Union, and the husband & wife team of John Legend & Chrissy Teigen are among the celebrity readers lined up for the series.
Mark this as family time. You'll be glad you did.
2 comments:
Cool idea to revive Reading Rainbow...
Hopefully this causes today's kids to actual read more instead of just looking at their phone or tablet screens; I was born in 1984, and went through school with mainly books as sources for writing papers, etc....
During the latter part of my school years we had the internet, computers, etc., but for the main part, we still used books; actually, with world events the last few years, i've started to get back into reading(mainly books bought from Amazon or Ebay, on subjects that I find interesting, but even still...)...
I hear ya, dude.
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