HBO to hold 'Sesame Street'; PBS to Continue Airing Show

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2001, file photo, Muppets Bert, left, and Ernie, from the children's program "Sesame Street," are shown in New York. Under a new partnership announced Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, by Sesame Workshop and HBO, the premium cable channel will carry the next five seasons of "Sesame Street" on HBO and its related platforms. PBS, the long-time home of the children's program, will continue to air the show as well. (AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser, File)

The premium cable channel and benny Workshop, that produces "Sesame Street," on weekday declared a five-year deal that may expand the "Sesame Street" footprint and its quantity of programming.

The next 5 seasons of the revered children's series are offered on HBO and its connected platforms, as well as HBO GO and HBO On Demand. The deal can permit the benny Workshop, a non-profit-making instructional organization, to supply virtually double the content of previous seasons, HBO and therefore the workshop same.

New episodes can move to HBO initial, with PBS stations obtaining the episodes for complimentary however to rerun 9 months later. There will not be any interruption for "Sesame Street" on PBS, with the present season airing till new shows become offered.

"Our new partnership with HBO represents a real winning public-private partnership model," same Jeffrey D. Dunn, benny Workshop's business executive. He same it provides his organization with "critical funding" to continue manufacturing the show and airing it on PBS, its home for forty five years.

Besides "Sesame Street," the workshop can build a Muppets spinoff series and a replacement original instructional series for youngsters. HBO same it additionally has licenced quite one hundred fifty past episodes of "Sesame Street."

Joan Ganz Cooney, co-founder of the series, same she has "long loved the artistic work of HBO and cannot think about a more robust partner to continue the standard of 'Sesame Street's' programming." She noted there are dramatic changes within the method kids consume video and therefore the social science of the kids' TV business, and same benny Workshop should "adapt to the days."

The move by HBO reflects another reality: Fledgling TV competitors like Amazon and Netflix ar creating their own forays into children's programming as a part of their streaming services.

The new episodes can begin airing as early as fall 2015, with HBO the exclusive, first-run subscription TV distribution partner for "Sesame Street" and therefore the new series, in each English and Spanish.

In addition to benny Street, HBO will license concerning fifty past episodes of "Pinky Dinky Doo," Associate in Nursing animated series for preschoolers with attention on early skill, and "The power company," that relaunched in 2009, from benny Workshop.