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I hear everyone recently got canned from the view. maybe a show like that needs a punch of reality and knock some humble sense into the script. someone willing to go roeg. abc told the website that the no hiring decisions have been made and any names at this point are just speculation. >> that's right. and thomas, you know, i know you co-hosted there. i hope we're not losing you. >> i've got nothing to announce yet. what might be the post pay potato salad. he started with a simple request. >> that's my middle name. >> danger. >> kick starter last week and $10 to make the first batch since th...

>> a take on the theme song for the beloved children's series "reading rainbow" if the public response to an online campaign any indication, lavar burton does have power and resistance is futile. he has a kick starter campaign to bring back "reading rainbow" for every child everywhere. thanks to 77,000 backers he met $1 million goal in 11 hours. after a week well on his way to meeting the new $5 million goal. but you don't have to take my word for it. here is the man himself, emmy, grammy award winning lavar burton. great to have you here. >> thank you so much, joy. >> thank you. i have to sta...

School. >> pbs wasn't free either. pbs was at no immediate cost to the consumer. but content doesn't create itself. joy, and it certainly doesn't relate, good content costs. we license these books from the publishers. and we have a fiduciary responsibility to pay these artists and, and the writers, for, for their intellectual property. there are plenty of educational products in our schools that the school districts pay for. one of the thing that the we are doing, again the kick starter helps us do that, is to give the reading rainbow product for schools away. for schools that are in need. i t...

And then to put a product in that, the hands of the teachers. teachers love reading rainbow. >> detractors that have come up. a few. hard to believe everybody doesn't love reading rainbow. some people have said this is not something that is free to school. >> pbs wasn't free either. pbs was at no immediate cost to the consumer. but content doesn't create itself. joy, and it certainly doesn't reate, good content costs. we license these books from the publishers. and we have a fiduciary responsibility to pay these artists and, and the writers, for, for their intellectual property. there are plen...

Criticism has been, listen if you are going to invest, go on kick starter, better investment to increase literacy is do a small community really literacy focus proed grams rather than reading rainbow which is for kids who in theory can already read? >> look, why can't you do both? why does it have to be mutually exclusive. yes, we do need to teach our kids how to read. and almost more importantly. once they can read, we need to teach them how to love reading. we need to light that fire in them and make sure that they have a passion for the written word. otherwise, we can, we can, teach all the...