Sesame Street has a new address. When the emblematic children’s television program starts its 56th season later this year, it will be on Netflix, but perhaps more importantly, it will also be on the public broadcasting service (PBS) in the United States.
The pair announced the exclusive agreement with a brief and adorable video with Cookie Monster, who discovers and then eats the Netflix “N”.
A decade ago, when HBO (yes, he simply called “HBO” at the time) announced his historical agreement with Sesame Street To bring the series to its premium cable programming, it also moved the original house of the program to the second level status. All the first race episodes first appeared on HBO, then, nine months later, the same episodes will be broadcast on the PBS available freely.
The Netflix agreement, however, fundamentally changes this equation. The episodes of the new season 56 featuring Grover, Big Bird, Elmo and the rest of the characters will be broadcast on Netflix and PBS at the same time.
Essentially, these are two levels of good news for the beloved show: one, Sesame Streetwhose future was no longer certain, has a new popular and well funded house; and two, all young people and houses have engaged in the Sesame Street History, whatever their access or financial situation, will have full access to the program program.
G is for good news
Neither Netflix nor Sesame Street reveals the terms of the agreement, but without the support of Netflix, it was not clear if Sesame Street would survive.
When I spoke to the leaders of Sesame Street a decade ago when they had signed the HBO agreement, they revealed to me that viewers on PBS represented a small percentage of their funding.
“What people do not understand is that PBS finances only less than 10% of the production costs of the show. The show was funded for many years by granting licenses,” said Jeff Dunn in 2015, who is now an executive president of Sesame Workshop.
The key for people who buy content and products revolving around Sesame Street The franchise and financing of the Sesame Street non -profit workshop, is a wider audience devoted to its characters and themes. Netflix, which has around 310 million subscribers, against 110 million max, should help in this regard.
Big changes
Season 56 Sesame Street Netflix subscribers (and those who look at PBS) will meet later this year will be very different from previous editions.
- The characters will speak directly to viewers.
- The episodes will take viewers inside the building where the characters live
- Elmo’s world will come back and Cookie Monster will have a cookie cart
- Viewers will find more animations on the screen
- Longer history segments
Netflix has also undertaken to develop games for SESAME RUE And Manufacturers of mecha Sesame Street.
The streamer plans to publish Sesame Street 35 episodes of season 56 in three lots on Netflix. He will also add some 90 hours of classic episodes to the platform. As for the number of episodes that represent, we will leave this to the count to understand.
