Show tackles kids’ issues worldwide

Danny Glover is in Trinidad to film a television program on AIDS and children, a U.N. spokeswoman said.

The 55-year-old star of “The Royal Tenenbaums” and “The Color Purple,” will host the first of 10 episodes of “What’s Going On?,” scheduled to begin airing in January on the Showtime cable network, U.N. spokeswoman Vashty Maharaj said.

The series was originally to be called “Hot Spots,” but the title was changed after producers got the rights to use the title of the well-known Marvin Gaye song, said Carmel M. Mulvaney, project director for the U.N. Works Program.

Each episode will explore the different struggles that children face around the world. Angelina Jolie will visit a refugee camp in Zambia and Jeff Bridges will host an episode looking at hunger in the United States.