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Feb 2, 2023 · Robin Marchant/Getty Images. To be clear, "Reading Rainbow" wasn't "canceled" in the colloquial sense of the term, i.e., "having caused public outrage." It went off the air following a governmental policy shift in education on the national level during the administration of President George W. Bush .
The show aired its final original episode on November 10, 2006 and continued to air reruns until on August 28, 2009. Not only was PBS unable to secure enough funds to cover the costs associated with renewing broadcast rights and continuing reruns, the show's core philosophy was challenged as well.
Aug 28, 2009 · Reading Rainbow comes to the end of its 26-year run on Friday; it has won more than two-dozen Emmys, and is the third longest-running children's show in PBS history — outlasted only by Sesame...
Jul 27, 2021 · But in January 2007, LeVar revealed that the show was coming to an end and that he’d already shot Reading Rainbow's last episode. Although he was tight-lipped about the exact reason for the show’s end, he suggested that he wasn’t happy with the "direction that the new producers were taking the program."
May 24, 2017 · Over 26 years and 150 episodes, the public broadcasting mainstay Reading Rainbow sought to teach kids, not how to read, but to love reading. That distinction is at the heart of an extensive oral ...
Sep 9, 2009 · Television. LeVar Burton On The End Of 'Reading Rainbow' September 9, 20091:00 PM ET. Heard on Talk of the Nation. 16-Minute Listen. Playlist. Actor LeVar Burton has been the host of The...
May 19, 2017 · In 2006, succumbing to a changing media and public television landscape, Rainbow shot its final episode. But the show's fans—and Burton—never gave up hope.
