‘Sesame Street’ Heads To Netflix With Streaming Deal For PBS Children’s Series

Sesame Street has a new streaming home. Netflix has picked up the children’s series, which will make its debut on the streamer later this year with an all-new, reimagined 56th season — plus 90 hours of previous episodes — available to audiences worldwide.

Netflix is coming on board after HBO Max opted not to renew its Sesame Street streaming deal at the end of last year.

The new episodes, which will now center on one 11-minute story, will be available same day-and-date in the US on PBS stations and PBS KIDS digital platforms, keeping U.S. kids’ free access to early learning for free.

In addition to format changes, the new season will feature the return of fan-favorite segments like Elmo’s World and Cookie Monster’s Foodie Truck.

Sesame Workshop is the global nonprofit behind Sesame Street, with Sal Perez and Kay Wilson Stallings serving as executive producers; Emmy, Humanitas, and NAACP Award nominee Halcyon Person (Karma’s World, Dee & Friends in Oz) joins as head writer.

Netflix will also be able to develop video games for both Sesame Street and Sesame Street Mecha Builders.

While HBO Max shifted focus away from kids and family programming a couple of years ago, it represents 15% of Netflix’s total viewing with shows such as CoComelon.