While withdrawing funds for Barney , PBS announced renewals for two other new preschool series, Shining Time Station and Lamb Chop's Play-Along , from budgets of both fiscal years 1993 and 1994. I don't think coming out of the gate last helped the series,'' he added. But this renewal process marks the first year that, under Chief Program Executive Jennifer Lawson, PBS aggregated double-digit millions for new programming. New episodes funded with fiscal 1993 monies will begin airing this fall. Although several WNET-produced series came out of 1994 renewals with substantially less PBS funding, Chancey was eager to put a positive spin on the outcome.
Renewal is really only part of a much larger picture.
He pointed to the new popular music series that the Great Performances team is developing for debut this fall. PBS listed this new initiative as one contender for a portion of its reserved 1994 funds. Chancey said of this renewal round. We exist for now, but I can't say where we'll land,'' said Joel Cohen, producer of The '90s , which got no 1994 funding. That's concerning and at least upsetting.