Sesame Street heads to Netflix after Trump pulled funding

BBC News ^ | May 20, 2025 | By Annabelle Liang

[dfwgator]

The Market Works!

[Tell It Right]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Trump Hates Big Bird! Says Ernie and Burt Are Too Gay!” ~ News at Eleven

*SMIRK*

Good. Finally.

[bk1000]

Netflix said the iconic programme is a "beloved cornerstone of children's media, enchanting young minds and nurturing a love of learning". necessary vehicle for the indoctrination of otherwise normal children into leftist queer culture.

[FLT-bird]

Which demonstrates that good programs PBS aired which are popular did not need public funding all along. Thanks for demonstrating the point Beeb.

Though being heavily publicly funded yourselves and since an ever larger share of the British public doesn’t trust or watch your leftist globalist Gaia worshiping propaganda anymore, I can see why you are particularly sensitive about this subject.

[dfwgator]

Homicide : Life on Sesame Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5pAtgubMY

[Diana in Wisconsin]

*Bookmark*

[No name given]

True.

[No name given]

Well said.

[Political Junkie Too]

after Trump pulled funding

Such lies... Et tu, BBC?

This story is fake news.

I posted this back in December before President Trump took office:

In response to the article We May Finally See the End of PBS and NPR

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This is a dead argument and is now moot.

In 2016, Sesame Street sold first-airing rights to HBO in exchange for HBO covering the production costs of new episodes. PBS had the rights to broadcast the new episodes one month later than HBO.

This deal expires at the end of this year and HBO has declined to renew, leaving Sesame Street with no one to cover future production costs.

PBS can no longer trot out Big Bird and Bert and Ernie to beg for money.

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Sesame Street was Dead Bird Walking long before DOGE began when they lost their production sponsor at the end of 2024.

-PJ

This story is fake news.

I posted this back in December before President Trump took office:

In response to the article We May Finally See the End of PBS and NPR

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This is a dead argument and is now moot.

In 2016, Sesame Street sold first-airing rights to HBO in exchange for HBO covering the production costs of new episodes. PBS had the rights to broadcast the new episodes one month later than HBO.

This deal expires at the end of this year and HBO has declined to renew, leaving Sesame Street with no one to cover future production costs.

PBS can no longer trot out Big Bird and Bert and Ernie to beg for money.

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Sesame Street was Dead Bird Walking long before DOGE began when they lost their production sponsor at the end of 2024.

-PJ

[dfwgator]

So Ernie cheated on Rubber Ducky after telling him he was “the one”?

[Mustangman]

Sesame street is a good show. I’m sure it will be supported.

[LouAvul]

We funded sesame street? Our Congress is waaaay out of control. It can’t be fixed. It needs to be dismantled, the freeloading people masquerading as Congress removed, and rebuilt from scratch.

[1Old Pro]

Which demonstrates that good programs PBS aired which are popular did not need public funding all along.

Looking at the lineup on netflix, they'll take the bad programs as well.

[dfwgator]

Tax dollars may still subsidize the making of the show, correct?

This is just about where it’s distributed.

[Skywise]

BS! Sesame Street got axed from hbo max. It had 0 to do with funding for PBS, which Netflix is NOT.

Though Netflix is woke…

[Tanniker Smith]

If HBO didn’t want to pay for it, why should the government?

Let another company pick it up.

Oh, look, that’s what happened.

Sesame Street isn’t going away.

[Recovering_Democrat]

fine with me. Screw public funding.

I dumped Netflix many months ago. Sick of their woke crap.

[Zack Attack]

Maybe they can revive PBS’s “The Electric Company” using solar power and windmill farms.