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More than anything else, the showmen are worried that the pumped-up glamour and hype on which their businesses depend will leach away if audiences can pick and choose and consume in electronic solitude. "We are standing on a revolutionary threshold," says MCA's Teller of on-line delivery. "But I don't believe the highest form of human existence is sitting at home in a cocoon downloading digital bits...
...spot on the increasingly crowded cable dial is the TV Food Network, which will serve up a 24-hour schedule of recipes, cooking tips and news of health and nutrition. Among the programs being planned: an interview show in which celebrities talk about food with host Robin Leach and a consumer series on feeding your family for $75 a week...
...animal, to full-size life (embodied by actor David Joyner inside the purple-and-green suit, with Bob West providing the voice). Together the children and Barney spend 30 nonviolent minutes exploring a theme -- ranging from recycling to counting -- through song, dance, crafts and creative play. Says creator Sheryl Leach: "It has a magical simplicity to it that parents don't understand...
Barney was born five years ago when former schoolteacher Leach could not find a video to hold her two-year-old son's attention for more than five minutes. One day, as she drove along a freeway, she got the idea for her own videos. "The thought was, How hard could it be? I could do that," Leach recalls. With her knowledge of kids, and with help from a father-in-law who owned a video-production facility, she joined with a friend, Kathy Parker, to develop Barney. He started out as a cuddly teddy bear but evolved ultimately into...
Then one Super Bowl Sunday, Leora Rifkin, 4, daughter of Larry Rifkin, a programming executive with Connecticut Public Television, pulled a Barney tape off the video-store shelf and went home to watch it. And watch it. And watch it. Seeing the magic, her father called Leach's company, the Lyons Group, and they teamed up to produce 30 PBS episodes, which started airing last April. When PBS considered canceling the show last summer, parental howls saved it. Now 20 new episodes, which will introduce another dinosaur character, are scheduled for next year...