Sesame Street redux

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Kevin M.

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Oct 30, 2023, 7:04:47 PM10/30/23
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The half hour format will now feature two 11 minute segments sandwiching a new animated series “Tales from 123”. 

Jim Ellwanger

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Oct 30, 2023, 7:07:16 PM10/30/23
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The original "Sesame Street" format was inspired by TV commercials... but with kids watching shows via streaming, they're presumably not seeing as many commercials as kids were in 1969.


On Oct 30, 2023, at 4:04 PM, Kevin M. <drunkba...@gmail.com> wrote:

The half hour format will now feature two 11 minute segments sandwiching a new animated series “Tales from 123”. 


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Mark Jeffries

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Oct 30, 2023, 8:05:08 PM10/30/23
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It should be pointed out that the new format won't kick in until 2025, which would be after their current deal with HBO (with streaming on Max) runs out. (The shows run on PBS nine months after the first HBO airing.) Since the gentleman from the Sesame Workshop quoted in the link seemed not to be happy with Daddy Zaslav's decision to take 200 past episodes off of Max, I would guess that in 2025 for the new format they are either going to go back to PBS completely or find another streamer-attached company for first runs. Even though AppleTV+ is supposedly getting out of children's programming, I would imagine that at least Netflix or Amazon would be interested.

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On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 6:04 PM Kevin M. <drunkba...@gmail.com> wrote:
The half hour format will now feature two 11 minute segments sandwiching a new animated series “Tales from 123”. 

Kevin M.

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Oct 30, 2023, 8:11:55 PM10/30/23
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And the original format was based on the (at the time) shrinking attention spans of kids. As I experience now in my classroom, the attention spans of kids are longer now than they have been in quite some time. It makes sense to tweak the format. 

M-D November

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Oct 31, 2023, 1:31:53 PM10/31/23
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This actually makes perfect sense, in the age of "Bluey" and Disney Junior shows which are, ultimately, 2 independent 12-minute segments (sometimes with a bumper in the middle, but no mid-show commercials). And really, this isn't a big deal - "Sesame Street" adjusts their format on a regular basis - it actually made for an interesting contrast when my kids were little, because we'd watch the new half-hour episodes, then double back a few years to the longer 1-hour episodes anchored by Murray and Ovejita, then (thanks, HBOMax) dive deep into the archive and find Big Bird in Japan or Don't Eat the Pictures.
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