Barney (East and West Cybersland)

Barney is the Cyberslandian production of. This series aired from 1997-present on various networks in the Cyberslands, Tau, and Jetania (notably Corazon and the Jetanian edition of the Disney Channel) and has since been released on video and DVD.

Jake Paulinski, one of the heads of Cyberslandian entertainment company Venus City Entertainment, the production studio of Corazon, was inspired by Barney. His daughter, like many children in the early nineties, became entranced with the purple dinosaur, which inspired him to pursue the rights to produce an Israeli adaptation of the show. He approached Lyrick Studios in 1995, but was initially denied, told that he was only allowed to air the original version. He felt that "airing a sightly bland American show" wouldn't work. Then Mr. Jake asked "Why not have Barney use his imagination at a Cyberslandian boarding school?" This sealed the deal and, under strict guidelines, the show could be produced. One of these guidelines was that the shows could only be adapted from the US counterparts, with very few script changes. When the agreement went through, it cost Corazon and Venus City, thanks to help from fundraisers, $78,000,000 per episode to produce (Only $12 million per episode went to Lyrick), making it one of the most expensive children's shows produced in all 3 countries this coproduction aired in. Despite the fact script tinkering was rarely done, some episodes had segments (London Bridge was sung as "New Warsaw Bridge" in Caring Means Sharing, the episode was ironically filmed prior to the bridge collapsing) or even whole storylines changed to fit Israeli traditions (Hola, Mexico! was now about the Cyberslandian holiday Spackles (redubbed to feature Jetania and Tau's respective holidays in their airings of that storyline's episodes) instead of a Mexican fiesta).