Fred Rogers Is Returning to PBS, Which Will Air This Summer’s Hit Documentary About His Life

The network will broadcast Won’t You Be My Neighbor? early next year

One of PBS’ most famous and influential personalities of all-time, Fred Rogers, will be returning to the public broadcast network in 2019.

PBS has secured rights to Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, this summer’s hit documentary about the late Rogers and his iconic children’s show, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. It will air the doc on Independent Lens “early next year,” PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger said today at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour in Los Angeles.

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