HBO has declined to renew “Sesame Street” for new episodes. The series that’s been teaching generations of little kids since 1969 now has no studio.
Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.
Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.
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Rather than building recreational rockets and sending themselves into space they could build childhood memories and keep old ones alive.
Why are the billionaires we hear about always on the side against the public good?
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It's probably the most well-known providers for educational programming in the US.
Strange’ish question. Is Kermit the Frog owned by CTW or Jim Henson Company?
In February 2004, Disney acquired the Muppets from The Jim Henson Company. The deal included the Muppet characters, film and television library, copyrights, and trademarks.
Sesame Street characters, are owned by Sesame Workshop.
Wow!
Unfortunately, I think Sesame Workshop is likely trying to seek a more established corporate studio partner. I wish they wouldn’t.
But they’ve been attacking “Sesame Street” since the 1980s at least.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UgLnWJFGHQ
So they believe that autism is a disease and needs to be cured, and they also support ABA, a harmful therapy group that's known for abusing autistics.
To summarize, they're basically a bunch of ableists with the CEO being a spawn of Satan.
I hope someone rescues them, but I fear it'll be someone else seeking to keep it a commodity rather than a public good.
CTW and Sesame Street are Henson's roots, and they live over on Disney. It's a natural fit across ALL of the Disney properties - media, theme parks, merch. Even makes sense in cross promotion on ABC and ESPN.
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We used to have cartoons that had good things in it to learn for the child, in many cartoons there was always something at the end, loose from the stories involving a scenario and how to coop with it. Now we have southpark:)
And * exactly * what they're ultimately planning to do with Moana etc in future
FUCK corporate stories
Fund independent media and never stop
Few years before Joanne went full terf, I tried to read through the books and was shocked by how mediocre her writing is. She got incredibly lucky with timing and the internet
It wasn’t sustainable for Sesame Workshop.
Not ideal, but it worked.
I’m hoping the public can find a way to fund Sesame Workshop’s work, since elected officials have refused to do so with our tax dollars for years now.
but I wish PBS would play from the archive, too. The material always has been pretty universal, not “ripped from the headlines” stuff that would go stale. As a kid I enjoyed books written in other countries a century ago, why not watch a kids’ show from decades ago?
https://youtu.be/7qXuTuqPmjw?feature=shared
Here in Mexico, we got both some original and locally-produced episodes at the same time, but both of them stopped being aired in late 2000's (2008, 2009, or something like that), so I thought the TV program had finally been cancelled in the States. 😅
Hopefully, no one will mess with pbs
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lciyrdnyqk2k
I reminded him that he votes for people who've been trying to defund PBS for decades and has no business complaining now.
I will later.
Mafia gangster shows instead of puppets and a lightly diverse cast of humans interacting in a dense neighborhood
I joined for the 4th Matrix and Friends reruns
Maybe I should go
I cannot fathom a world without Sesame Street. Who are we?
Sesame Street is more than 55 years of distilling how to get important things (letters, numbers, emotional tools) to children.
And in a format which makes it accessible to EVERYONE, regardless of locale, or income.
That deserves the position it has earned.
Please read abput that. Once you do it may be easier to understand the importance of the show.
There are children that did not have the same early learning advantages as those from mostly middle class white families.
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2024/12/05/speaker-mike-johnson-doge-planned-parenthood--pbs-funding-
But it won't happen, Cause Apple is a Greedy Company and only cares about Money and Not People.
“Sesame Street” was created to level the educational playing field. Locking it on D+ or Apple TV permanently would be wrong, too.
And not just Henson's Fraggle Rock either. It commisioned/ greenlit shot specials for kids education.
But that was several owners ago.
It's not just the US, kids all over the world learned basic life skills from this.
Also "One, two, three, foour, five; six, seven, eight, nine, ten; Eleven TWEE'E'E'E'ELVE!"
Isn't BlueSky great!
Also, this counting series was one of the best things ever on TV:
YT is available on every platform, in multiple regions, ad-supported tier and premium tier.
I don’t know if a project of their size is sustainable on YouTube alone, since they don’t want it to be interrupted by ads that would distract the young kids watching.
What a monster.
Heck, with a billion dollars they could probably still do both.
I suspect HBO did not like funding something that led to a public good.
How is that contrary to what I wrote?
It's Warner Bros. Discovery making this decision
*The deal with HBO allowed new episodes created under the HBO contract
(No matter what platform I’m on, I inevitably need an edit button.)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hbo-cancels-sesame-street-licensing-deal-show-streaming-service-1235985075/
Think this is just about production of new episodes altho idk if the streaming library is exclusive for max
I’m dying here.
Hell, look at it this way
From 2002-2013. The United States had a channel dedicated to all things motorsports, in 2012 they started airing Premier League Soccer games and casually feeding in FOX Sports branding
It eventually died and became FS1
***Says the furry who watches an Australian cartoon about a dog family***
Shut up, conscious
I seriously wish parents in my generation could do better.
And, based on what I’ve seen in comments, parents are still sharing Cookie Monster and the Count with their kids.
I always show my little brother some stuff on there
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hbo-cancels-sesame-street-licensing-deal-show-streaming-service-1235985075/
Or 750 if you send over cash app
We'd help but everything's earmarked for emergency measures. Somebody with a surplus that isn't stopping people from dying needs to do their bit, there are many.
They are funded mostly by the government, and then by private donors (rich people), and then by donations by viewers.
PBS has had federal funding cut, drastically. YOUR station may seem to be ok, but it's really not..
You can call your representative and tell them to vote against it.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/house-passes-stopgap-spending-measure-to-avoid-shutdown-for-now-bill-moves-to-senate-next
When I heard that this deal between Sesame Street and HBO came up, I believed it’d crash and burn.
And while it wasn’t as dramatic as I expected… there it is.
Here’s to hoping Sesame Street lives on. It was very useful to me as a kid. And fun.
However, Disney is likely to lock up new eps on D+ instead of allowing PBS rebroadcasts like the HBO contract did. No good.
PBS would have to come up with the money to pay for new ones, and if they had such money, HBO wouldn't have outbid them in the first place.
American kids are fucked one way or the other.
When he found out that the person in charge of ring boys (young local boys hired to put up the ring and do other work on the cheap) had reliably been accused of sexually abusing them, he immediately fired that man.
(Thanks, Reagan!)
Enjoy the ride downward.
With some crowdfunding?
Just spitballing here…
Is PBS willing to take Sesame Street back?
new episodes are aired there after a bit of a delay, but premieres can't be on there now due to lack of funding. the HBO deal gave them money to produce the show.
too. I wouldn’t have dinted tonight if not for this shared message by someone I don’t even follow. your voice is one but it can be powerful beyond what you think
I would sometime watch the episides from the 70s and 80s and even 90s with young relations, and those seem to be more enjoyed.
What I'm /hoping/ is they can transition to crowdfunding a-la MST3K etc., but I don't know.
The only way they can work is to be owned by no one and belong to everyone.
when Public Broadcasting meant something and people saw government as a tool for betterment and a ward against terror and poverty.
Oh, how the world has changed.
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Someone send a repairman in there stat before they turn into crazy psycho monsters!
What about all the Snuffleupaguses / Snuffleupagi?!
😔
Sesame Workshop has had funding issues for many years, though. hence the HBO distribution deal.
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