Barney the purple dinosaur was everywhere in the 1990s and aughts, courtesy of the children’s TV series Barney & Friends.

The movie works, and has a handful of inspired touches, yet a little of it goes a long way.

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.

“Barney & Friends” was a mainstay of daytime television in the early 1990s, making a star out of the title character: a purple anthropomorphic T. rex who extolled the virtues of love, kindness and ...

Won’t you say you love him, too? Barney sent waves across social media on Wednesday after everyone’s favorite purple dinosaur took to Instagram for the first time in more than 10 years to spread the ...

All Barney ever wanted was to love us. From the moment former Dallas schoolteacher Sheryl Leach breathed him into life, the purple Tyrannosaurus rex was a reptile of exceptional warmth. His bulbous, ...

It's not yet known whether the live-action film about the dino will be a gritty take on the children's TV icon. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She ...

Plenty of celebrities get makeovers as they age — and Barney the dinosaur is no different. "Barney & Friends," which starred the friendly purple T-Rex, premiered on PBS in 1992. On Monday, Mattel ...

The cult creator of "Too Many Cooks" builds an occasionally inspired if scattershot genre mash-up out of children's TV. There was always something a bit kinky about Barney. I thought the funniest ...