Mychal Threets, new host `Reading Rainbow ”, tries to take up the magic of show

When Mychal Threets received an email last year offering him – a professional librarian – the opportunity to organize a relaunched version of the children’s program “Reading Rainbow” “ He thought he was a hoax.

“Honestly, I thought they were lying when they contacted me for the first time, that everything was something,” said Mr. Threets, who is known on social networks under the name of Mychal the librarian, in an interview. “I said to myself:” Ok, I’m going to play long. “”

It was not a trick.

The program acclaimed by criticism returns today after an interruption of almost two decades, with Mr. Threets as a host. It is produced by Embassy Row in partnership with Buffalo Toronto Public Media, the creator of the show, and he will appear on Kidzuko, a children’s YouTube channel led by Sony Pictures, rather than his more familiar house of PBS and PBS Kids.

In addition to Mr. Threet, the show will showcase famous guests, notably John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Gabrielle Union.

“I am the biggest fan of Levar Burton, Mr. Rogers, Steve Irwin, Bob Ross – all healthy people in the world,” said Threet about some of the most popular PBS stars, including Mr. Burton, the former host of “Reading Rainbow”. “I think for me, just for being considered my mind.”

Michael Davies, executive producer of “Jeopardy!” Who also brought “who wants to be a millionaire in the United States, began to develop the restart of” Reading Rainbow “in 2020.