Teletubbies turns 25 this year, and now has a new Netflix reboot on the way. What made this colourful and strange world so appealing to children – and so controversial, asks Timmy Fisher. In March ...

A new version of “Teletubbies” is headed back to the small screen. Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po are returning in a reboot for Netflix, the streaming service announced Sept. 7. In the latest ...

If there is one children's program that seemed to have a hold on us in the late 1990s/early 2000s it would have to be the Teletubbies. This British program was something that kids loved and also ...

Public television’s pithy tag line is meant to have positive connotations-innovating, filling a void, performing a vital public service. But the slogan took on ironic overtones last year when it ...

Minor spoilers follow for the opening scene of 28 Years Later. At the turn of the millennium, a low-budget British production suddenly became an international hit. Its small gang of characters making ...

The actor behind the Teletubbies’ Tinky Winky character froze to death, according to family members and police. Simon Shelton Barnes, 52, collapsed on a Liverpool street and died of hypothermia. He ...

Toddlers learn their first words better from people than from Teletubbies, according to new research. Children younger than 22 months may be entertained, but they do not learn words from the ...

When one hears Teletubbies and "the greatest horror show of all time" in the same sentence, one is likely to believe — and not entirely incorrectly — that the entire series absolutely fits that bill.

Ewa Sowinska, the state-appointed children's rights watchdog, told a local magazine published yesterday she was concerned the popular BBC children's show promoted homosexuality. She said she would ask ...

Toddlers learn their first words better from people than from Teletubbies, according to new research at Wake Forest University. The study was published in the June 21 issue of Media Psychology.