TV show picks up where Mister Rogers left off

A new children’s television show, “A Day in Buck’s Big World,” plans to pick up where Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood left off.

In each episode, Buck O’Connor takes children on adventures to meet role models and learn from them, according to a press release.

“Ever since Mr. Roger’s died, no one has stepped up to fill that role,” O’Connor said in the release. “I feel parents are looking for someone to trust with their children on TV.”

O’Connor has been working with K.E.T. in Lexington for five years, preparing the show for the airwaves. Word came in March that K.E.T. was going to add the program to its June 2015 schedule, according to the release.

O’Connor said he began to notice that there was a lack of real, live role models on television when he started looking for appropriate TV shows for his daughter.

“My vision is to create a program that shows real people teaching our children real things about our real world,” O’Connor said in the press release. “I want kids to connect with real people.”

Each episode will feature an adult role model who teaches children about their profession or hobby. O’Connor said it’s important to him that the show features people and places around Kentucky.

“The people are one of the best assets of this state,” he said in the press release. “I want to broadcast the wonderful people in Kentucky and teach wonderful viewers about Kentucky.”

“A Day in Buck’s Big World” airs on KET 3/KETKY on Fridays at 7 a.m. and again on Saturdays at 5 a.m.