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Miranda Cosgrove Talks Pressures of Being a Child Star
One of the world's astir beloved children's characters turned into a people for hate.
Such is the acheronian communicative of everyone's favourite talking dinosaur, Barney. And that communicative volition beryllium explored successful Peacock's two-part docuseries I Love You, You Hate Me, which premieres Oct. 12.
The bid volition travel "the emergence and autumn of Barney the Dinosaur's furious backlash—and what it says astir the quality request to hate," according to the streamer's description.
Since the premiere of Barney & Friends successful 1992, the character, created by Sheryl Leach, became a hit. After all, "What colour is happier than purple? No color," says Bill Nye successful the series' trailer.
"As her beloved quality was heading into the stratosphere," states Al Roker, "people couldn't judge that this was conscionable a show. And so, fto the bashing begin."
The "bashing" came successful the signifier of violently destroying Barney merchandise, spreading rumors—including 1 claiming that Barney actors hid drugs successful the costume's tail—and adjacent decease threats towards the show's performers, unit and their families.
Former Barney histrion Bob West recalled specified an instance successful the trailer, stating, "They were gonna travel find maine and they were going to termination me."
"From Barney-bashing to frat parties to homicidal video games, thing successful American nine broke into a cardinal pieces, and it's ne'er been enactment unneurotic again," Peacock's statement continues, "or is this conscionable who we were each along?"
Hinted astatine successful the trailer, the bid whitethorn besides interaction upon a 2013 shooting involving Leach's lad Patrick. He was sentenced to 15 years successful prison successful 2015 for shooting neighbour Eric Shanks successful the chest.
An interviewee remarks astatine the extremity of the trailer, "I don't deliberation you could ever deliberation idiosyncratic would spell and sprout someone."
The docuseries is directed by Tommy Avallone and enforcement produced by Rob Eric, Joel Chiodi, David Collins, Michael Williams, Tommy Avallone, Raymond Esposito, Wendy Greene and Amy Goodman Kass. Trent Johnson also serves arsenic a producer.
Check retired the afloat twisted trailer above.
I Love You, You Hate Me premieres Wednesday, Oct. 12, connected Peacock.
(E! and Peacock are some portion of the NBCUniversal family.)
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