If you can’t wait for Orange Is the New Black to return this Friday, we might have a small snack to tide you over for a while. Sesame Street has taken aim at the Netflix prison dramedy with a tasty new puppet-filled parody entitled Orange Is the New Snack, which you can watch above. In […]
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Sesame Workshop and IBM Watson partner on platform to help kids learn
Sesame Workshop and IBM Watson today announced that it is creating a vocabulary app and the Sesame Workshop Intelligent Play and Learning Platform. The new platform will be used by Sesame Workshop and IBM to create a series of cognitive apps, games, and toys to help kids learn. News today is the first public action announced from the partnership first […]
The Cast of ‘Sesame Street’ Rattles Off Iconic Movie Quotes
Every kid grows out of Sesame Street at some point, but you never really stop loving the Muppets who helped teach you how to count, spell and do the right thing. That’s why every now and then, the characters from the Children’s Television Workshop are rounded up for content that’s mostly geared towards adults, but […]
Sesame Street’s new Muppet with autism is part of the show’s bigger, empathic agenda
Since Sesame Street launched in 1969, it’s been steadily expanding its educational agenda. The earliest episodes were simple, with a focus on helping young viewers get an early start on learning letters, numbers, shapes, and basic vocabulary words. Over the past four decades plus, the team behind the show has progressively gotten more ambitious about […]
Sesame Street Sneak Peeks: Meet Julia, a Muppet Character With Autism
Sesame Street has released its first clips of a new Muppet character — Julia, a 4-year-old with autism. RELATEDSesame Street to Introduce Its First Muppet With Autism Having existed for more than a year in print and digital offerings as part of Sesame Workshop’s “Sesame Street and Autism: See Amazing in All Children” initiative, this marks […]
Sesame Street Isn’t Just for Affluent Kids
When the Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney suggested that parents in struggling rural and urban areas might not consider funding public television through the Corporation for Public Broadcast a good use of taxpayer dollars during an appearance on Morning Joe on Thursday, he may have thought his statements reflected their feelings and […]
VOTD: ‘Sesame Street’ Characters Answer Frequently Asked Questions About the Show
Sesame Street has been a childhood staple that spans decades and generations of families. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that there are plenty of questions that people have about the show. In fact, it seems like people often go to Google with questions about Sesame Street, and Wired wanted to give the residents […]