Not a Sunny Day on 'Sesame Street'

[Mark Jeffries]

Sesame Workshop, the producers of the iconic children's series, lost huge support from WBD's HBO when Daddy Zaslav proclaimed that children's programming was not a primary goal of Max, they can't find a new streaming home yet, Trump and Musk's chain sawing of the federal government means they've lost some vital federal grants and staffers are threatening to unionize--seems like Oscar's really running the place:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/business/media/sesame-street-layoffs-funding-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6U4.rzMj.WF_hcMiVI3XZ&smid=url-share

[Kevin M.]

Bert and Ernie have found a new home on Netflix 

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sesame-workshop_sesame-workshop-is-excited-to-share-that-activity-7330223206768799745-0ZJn?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAAABJz0AB7qmF8TfP-bHbP1UUdJiTuZwJxBM&utm_source=social_share_send&utm_campaign=copy_link

Kevin M. (RPCV)

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM Mark Jeffries <spotl...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sesame Workshop, the producers of the iconic children's series, lost huge support from WBD's HBO when Daddy Zaslav proclaimed that children's programming was not a primary goal of Max, they can't find a new streaming home yet, Trump and Musk's chain sawing of the federal government means they've lost some vital federal grants and staffers are threatening to unionize--seems like Oscar's really running the place:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/business/media/sesame-street-layoffs-funding-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6U4.rzMj.WF_hcMiVI3XZ&smid=url-share

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[M-D November]

I look forward to the eventual Sesame Street/Monday Night RAW crossover event. Projected card:

- Big Bird vs. Seth Rollins (feathers vs. feathers match - IYKYK)

- Oscar the Grouch vs. CM Punk

- Cookie Monster vs. Big Bronson Reed in a cookie eating contest

- Bert & Ernie vs. The Judgement Day

- Zoe & Rocco vs. Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez

[Doug Eastick]

Now that I am a grandfather, I am pleased to see that Sesame Street will continue.      Now I'm wondering how it will show up in Canada (netflix? or some other streaming rights thing?).

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[Mark Jeffries]

It isn't still on the CBC with the added Canadian segments?

Mark Jeffries

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[John Edwards]

That hasn't been the case since the mid-90s. They were replaced by a standalone show called "Sesame Park" in 1996, which was itself cancelled in 2001.

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[Doug Eastick]

Looks like Sesame Street (30 minutes version) shows on Treehouse TV in Canada.

No idea if that includes streaming rights.

/Doug
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[Jim Ellwanger]

I'd like to think that they dub over any uses of "zee" with "zed" (but I assume they don't actually do that).

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