Sesame Street for HBO Premiere Date Set + Sneak Trailer Drops

Can you hear it? The lyrics say it all:

Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street!!


The Sesame Street brand is one that is synonymous with learning, music and most of all - Big Bird. Well things are about to get more iconic with news dropping today that the fame series and its cast of characters are headed to HBO.

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Image via HBO.COM

The cable giant has partnered with Jim Henson's legacy in a impressive deal that will make the next five seasons of the famed series available on HBO and its multiplex channels, HBO GO, HBO On Demand and the new internet-only SVOD service HBO NOW. As a key part of the deal, Sesame will be able to produce almost twice as much new content as previous seasons, and for the first time ever, make the show available free of charge to PBS and its member stations after a nine-month window.

On Jan. 16, two new episodes of SESAME STREET will debut on HBO, starting at 9:00 a.m. (ET/PT). Every Saturday thereafter, a new episode will debut at 9:00 a.m., followed by a repeat episode at 9:30 a.m. New episodes will also debut simultaneously on HBO Latino and will be dubbed in Spanish. Families will also be able to watch new and past seasons of SESAME STREET daily on HBO Family at 8:00 a.m., as well as five years of library episodes available for streaming on HBO NOW and HBO GO. Episodes will also be available on HBO On Demand and affiliate portals.

In addition to the next five seasons of Sesame Street, Sesame Workshop will produce a Sesame Street Muppet™ spinoff series, as well as develop a new original educational series for children. HBO has also licensed over 150 library episodes of Sesame Street. The new episodes will begin airing as early as late fall 2015, and HBO will be the exclusive, first-run subscription television distribution partner for Sesame Street and the new series.