{"id":272999,"date":"2025-10-02T22:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/272999\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T22:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:46:12","slug":"mychal-threets-hosts-reading-rainbow-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/272999\/","title":{"rendered":"Mychal Threets hosts ‘Reading Rainbow’ revival"},"content":{"rendered":"

After nearly 20 years, the beloved, long-running children\u2019s series \u201cReading Rainbow\u201d<\/a> is back, this time on the KidZuko YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

The first of four episodes hosted by Mychal Threets,<\/a> a librarian and literacy advocate, will be released Saturday at 10 a.m. Eastern. The others will drop on subsequent Saturdays at the same time. Adam DeVine, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Gabrielle Union and Jamie Chung will appear, along with Rylee Arnold and Ezra Sosa from \u201cDancing with the Stars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Threets, who goes by Mychal the Librarian on social media, steps into the shoes of original host LeVar Burton. Threets broke the reboot news Tuesday on his channels. KidZuko released a trailer.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI was raised on Reading Rainbow, LeVar Burton is my hero,\u201d Threets wrote on Instagram. \u201cI am a reader, I am a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow so powerfully made us believe we belong in books, we belong everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

The original \u201cReading Rainbow\u201d premiered in 1983 and became a wildly successful approach to using television to inspire children\u2019s love of reading and build connections between kids and books. It ended production in 2006, winning a Peabody Award and 26 Emmys.<\/p>\n

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KidZuko is operated by Sony Pictures Television. News of the digital-only series, with accompanying vertical videos, comes as the federal government has eliminated<\/a> $1.1 billion allocated to public broadcasting.<\/p>\n

The original series ran on public television stations around the country and was used often in schools.<\/p>\n

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This story first moved Sept. 30, 2025, and was updated on Oct. 2, 2025, to add a photo of Mychal Threets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After nearly 20 years, the beloved, long-running children\u2019s series \u201cReading Rainbow\u201d is back, this time on the KidZuko…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":273000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[141515,17546,71965,113626,171,131337,141516,26426,1165,141517,158,399,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-272999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-adam-devine","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-childrens-entertainment","11":"tag-chrissy-teigen","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-gabrielle-union","14":"tag-jamie-chung","15":"tag-john-legend","16":"tag-lifestyle","17":"tag-mychal-threets","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-television","20":"tag-tv","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115307006797504249","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}