PBS is rolling back broadcasts of the children’s television series “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” which stopped airing in 2001. But for some cardigan-wearing fans young and old, this is not a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Guest: Brian Linder, creator of the website, SaveMrRogers.com, and father of twin one-and-a-half-year-old girls, and Dade Hayes, author of ?Anytime Playdate: Inside the Preschool Entertainment Boom, or, How Television Became My Baby’s Best Friend.? Hayes is also an editor at Variety, and a dad of a 5-year-old girl and a 17-month-old son.
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