![]() ![]() "Can you imagine what the odds were that, not from New York, and not from L.A., but from a little town called Allen, Texas, a group of people came up with an idea that now is the number one most-watched children's television program?" Leach says in a 1993 clip in the first episode.Sheryl Leach, an SMU alum who gave up teaching to be a stay-at-home mom, came up with the concept in the 1980s after failing to find any videos that would retain her high-energy 2-year-old's interest. The Majestic Theatre hosted the first-ever Barney concert in the early 1990s. Because the show was originally recorded in Allen, then at the Studios at Las Colinas, then finally at studios in Carrollton, Barney money supported a lot of the local TV and film industry.įlashback: The parents of North Texas played an early outsized role in popularizing the insipid purple dino, telling their friends to rent tapes for their kids.Why it matters: At the height of his fame, Barney was the most ubiquitous - and polarizing - children's show character in America. A new documentary series is dishing on the behind-the-scenes drama that surrounded "Barney & Friends."Äriving the news: "I Love You, You Hate Me," the two-part series that started streaming on Peacock this week, covers Barney's rise and fall but also touches on the creator's son shooting a neighbor and the fact that one of the actors who played Barney went on to become a tantric sex therapist.
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