As Sesame Street’s 56th season gets underway, Elmo, Big Bird, and the Sesame organization are navigating a volatile chapter in the show’s history—marked by government funding cuts, evolving new media ...
Times are tough when even Elmo is out of a job. A LinkedIn post purportedly written by Sesame Street’s most lovable red Muppet has gone viral. It has captured the internet’s imagination in the wake of ...
As Congress threatens to defund public broadcasting, the defenders of PBS and NPR keep defending themselves by pointing to the importance of their longstanding signature program: “Sesame Street.” The ...
A rumor that circulated online in May 2025 claimed mean-spirited "Sesame Street" characters parodying Donald Trump in past decades were what prompted the U.S. president to eliminate federal funding ...
PBS sued President Donald Trump to block his effort to cut off federal funding for the public broadcaster. The lawsuit from PBS and one of its member stations in Minnesota came three days after NPR ...
“Sesame Street” will air new episodes on PBS for the first time in nearly 10 years. New and old episodes will be available later this year on Netflix. This comes as the Trump administration moves to ...