Nearly two decades after its last episode, Reading Rainbow will release new episodes this fall.

Mychal Threets, who goes by Michael the Librarian, will host the new version of the program. The show also announced that celebrities including John Legend, Chrissy Teigen and Jamie Chung will appear as presenters.

"I was raised on Reading Rainbow, LeVar Burton is my hero. I am a reader, I am a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow so powerfully made us believe we belong in books, we belong everywhere," Threets said.

The program returns Oct. 4 after last producing a new episode in 2006. Since then, there have been numerous efforts to resurrect the popular PBS show.

Reading Rainbow launched in 1983 to help combat “summer loss phenomenon,” the theory that children lose some of

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