Barney, the polarizing purple dinosaur who was a mainstay of many millennial upbringings, is making a triumphant return to TV screens next year — but this time, he'll be animated. Mattel Inc.

When "Barney & Friends" first debuted on PBS in 1992, kids went bananas for the huggable purple dinosaur. Now a new podcast from Connecticut Public called "Generation Barney" is looking back on the ...

NPR marks the 25th anniversary of a bouncing, purple T-Rex with oddly regular teeth, and a theme song that delighted toddlers, but to this day puts thousands of parents on edge. UNIDENTIFIED CHILDREN ...

Barney’s story starts in late 1987 in Allen, Texas. At the time, a former teacher named Sheryl Leach had a two-year old son, Patrick. She struggled to find videos that held his attention. “I was a ...

A feel-good film of rare quality. As Barney Panofsky (a wonderful Paul Giamatti) looks back across his life, you get the distinct impression poor Barney has been his own worst enemy all along.

Paul Giamatti stars in “Barney’s Version,” the adaptation of the 1997 novel by the late Canadian writer Mordecai Richler, who is probably best known in this country for the movie “The Apprenticeship ...