Sesame Street Moving From PBS to HBO

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Sesame Street will be showing up on HBO first for the next five years.

sesame-street-hbo-pbsHBO will be financially backing Sesame Street for the next five seasons. The next season will see the show’s episodes reduced from one hour to a half-hour. The number of episodes in a season will increase from 18 to 35 as part of the deal, reports NBC News.

Sesame Street fans that still look to watch the show on PBS can, but they’ll have to wait nine months after the episodes air on HBO for them to reach the network. Until then, PBS will be airing old episodes that will be cut together in different ways. There also a spin-off of the series that will include the Muppets in the works, NBC News notes.

Twitter (TWTR) reacted to the news that Sesame Street is heading to HBO with several jokes about how the content will change.

  • “I wonder which of my favorite characters is going to die first on HBO’s Sesame Street.”
  • Sesame Street is moving to HBO…I guess PBS finally realized that a show with unclothed characters isn’t suitable for children.”
  • Sesame Street is heading to HBO. Suddenly children will be learning some interesting four letter words.”
  • “Poor kids getting their Sesame Street episodes secondhand is actually educational: it teaches them how the world works.”
  • “Parents might be a little concerned that HBO has asked George R. R. Martin to write the new Sesame Street episodes.”

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