Posted on 08/14/2015 2:18:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sesame Street will be showing up on HBO first for the next five years.
HBO 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.”
The character is on US versions too and for very political reasons.
When has Kami been on a United States episode of Sesame Street?
Is that a joke?
It’s one of the reasons I stopped watching. :p
In other words, you don’t know the answer.
Lyme disease isn’t a disease that orphans kids in South Africa. Cancer is way, way down the list of cause of death in South Africa. When the Sesame Street character was created back in 2002, HIV was an epidemic. And again, not that it matters, but many who contracted HIV in South Africa were/are heterosexual. You seem to be operating under the false idea that the South African character with HIV appeared on the United States Sesame Street.
So yes, you are wrong.
And you seem to be operating under the mistaken assumption that the left did not and has not used that to indoctrinate young kids into ‘gay is ok” and ‘be safe/use a condom and you’ll be fine” across the planet. Nothing the left does is without service to the agenda. NOTHING.
So yes, I’m right.
How will NPR fundraising appeal to/guilt the middle class parents now?
The “left”? The South African left? Because the U.S. hasn’t ever had Kami on American Sesame Street. I’m not certain how you could go about condom use and gay indoctrination of little kids in the U.S. using a character who’s not on US tv.
Further, when has, and why would South African Sesame Street discuss that “gay is ok” with kids, when HIV in South Africa is not really a gay disease in that country?
Again, who is this left you are referring to? The U.S. left or South African left? When has condom use been mentioned on Sesame Street? How about “gay is ok”? I’ve been unable to find any examples of either.
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