TELETUBBIES. Weekdays, starting today, 9 a. m., Ch. 13. 3 1/2 STARS BARNEY is dead! Long live the Teletubbies! Well, okay, Barney isn’t really dead; the titular star of the PBS pre-school series ...

Imagine if the Teletubbies really did go to war with Barney the purple dinosaur? Perhaps the BBC should pull some strings to make a Christmas special. Plus an after-the-watershed version with more ...

NEW YORK — First “Sesame Street,” then “Barney” and now “Teletubbies”: The PBS programs for the youngest TV viewers are getting new looks in the face of intense competition for children’s attention.

If “The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure” were a half-hour Saturday morning TV show, it would be a scary enough proposition for most parents. Seeing it as a feature-length, big-screen movie, it ...

The Teletubbies, the toddler-sized creatures with antennas on their heads, are following Barney and Peter Rabbit down the path to new ownership as the British Broadcasting Corp.’s commercial arm ...