New Sesame Street No Longer on HBO and Max As Deal Expires

Sesame Street is searching for a brand new hometown.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. Discovery has opted to not renew its Sesame Avenue output take care of HBO and Max, which has been the house for the beloved kids’s present since 2016. They are going to, nevertheless, preserve their partnership with Sesame Workshop, the present’s producers, to proceed licensing episodes from the Sesame Avenue library by 2027.

So, basically, if there are new episodes of Sesame Avenue being made, they received’t premiere on HBO or Max — however viewers will nonetheless be capable to watch sure older episodes on the streaming platform. The choice from Warner Bros. Discovery is attributed to a change in technique, opting to focus much less on kids-centric fare and extra on grownup and family-friendly content material.

“It has been a beautiful, inventive expertise working with everybody at Sesame Avenue on the long-lasting kids’s collection and we’re thrilled to have the ability to hold a few of the library collection on Max within the U.S.,” mentioned a spokesperson for Max. “As we’ve launched Max although and based mostly on client utilization and suggestions, we’ve needed to prioritize our give attention to tales for adults and households, and so new episodes from Sesame Avenue, at the moment, should not as core to our technique.”

Although many archival episodes will stay on Max, that they had already begun the method of removing hundreds of episodes from the Sesame Avenue library in 2022 on account of cost-cutting measures from Warner Bros. Discovery. The Hollywood Reporter notes that whereas different distributors could also be fascinated with producing new episodes, it’s unknown whether or not they’ll be capable to share the huge Sesame Avenue library (which spans 5 many years) with Max.

Now that the youngsters’s program is purchasing what could be its 56th season round to different streamers, Sesame Workshop has some modifications deliberate. The present will likely be transferring away from a “magazine-style” format in favor of extra narrative-driven episodes because it reimagines its subsequent period. Producers additionally planning on introducing an accompanying animated collection referred to as Tales From 123. 

These important modifications to the present will arrive as quickly as a brand new deal is in place. Till then, atone for the newest episodes of Sesame Avenue on Max.