Netflix Saves ‘Sesame Street’ After WBD Boss David Zaslav Pulled The Plug On Financing New Episodes Of The Landmark PBS Series

Sesame Street is entering a caller era. Not only is nan show adopting a caller format, but nan children’s classical will now statesman streaming connected Netflix aft Warner Bros. Discovery decided not to renew its woody pinch Sesame Workshop precocious past year.

Under this caller deal, each caller episodes of Sesame Street will watercourse worldwide connected Netflix nan aforesaid time they aerial connected PBS stations and PBS Kids integer platforms successful nan United States. Over 90 hours of erstwhile episodes will besides beryllium disposable to watercourse later this year. Sesame Workshop said Netflix’s support will thief them “continue to thief children everyplace turn smarter, stronger, and kinder.”

Netflix put their ain imaginative flair connected nan news by sharing a video of Cookie Monster eating Netflix’s logo.

The streaming elephantine is swooping successful to prevention nan classical children’s bid aft Warner Bros. Discovery opted retired of renewing nan show’s output woody successful precocious 2024 to attraction connected much big and family-oriented programming for HBO and HBO Max.

“As we’ve launched Max though and based connected user usage and feedback, we’ve had to prioritize our attraction connected stories for adults and families, and truthful caller episodes from Sesame Street, astatine this time, are not arsenic halfway to our strategy,” a spokesperson for HBO Max said astatine nan time.

HBO Max will proceed licensing and streaming erstwhile episodes from the Sesame Street library done 2027, including nan caller season.

However, nan caller episodes will characteristic a “reimagined” type of nan show’s format. Netflix announced nan caller play will still see classical segments specified arsenic  “Elmo’s World” and “Cookie Monster’s Foodie Truck,” but each section will return a much communicative attack and halfway astir 1 11-minute story.

Per Entertainment Weekly, caller episodes will besides see an animated conception “Tales from 123,” which will bring viewers into nan Sesame Street building wherever each nan beloved characters live.

Sesame Street will statesman streaming connected Netflix worldwide later this year.