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.

Judy Miller, for one, is sure not to miss it. Miller, a mother of two from Oak Hill, Va., will have her VCR working overtime to record the action. Well, maybe “action” is too strong a word. The ...