![]() HBO Max may still be Elmo’s world, but it’s a bit smaller now. We have its premiere episode, sure, but we don’t have the first rendition of the beloved Oscar song “ I Love Trash” or other milestones from the show’s early years. But many classic, mainline Sesame Street episodes that were once on the service are nowhere to be found. The newer seasons 39 through 52 are still there, as well as several spinoffs and related ephemera. It still has its hub on the service similar to HBO’s, Studio Ghibli’s, TCM’s, and HBO Max’s other programming buckets. Now, there’s still quite a lot of Sesame Street content on HBO Max. “We are committed to continuing to bring Sesame Street into families’ homes, including the newest season premiering this fall and the nearly 400 episodes of the most current and historic seasons that remain on Cartoonito on HBO Max,” the streamer wrote. In a statement acknowledging the cuts, HBO Max called Sesame Street a “crown jewel” of its kids programming. “As of this morning, only 29 episodes from those years remain.” Variety estimated that Sesame Street’s episode count on HBO Max had been reduced from about pre-purge 650 to 456. “By my count, there were over 250 legacy episodes on the streaming service from the first 38 seasons of the show,” Hennes writes. More than 200 episodes have been removed, first spotted by Joe Hennes, editor of ToughPigs, a fan site dedicated to Sesame Street and other Muppets media.Īs ToughPigs lays out, there’s now a huge gap between season 1, which now has just 5 episodes, and season 39, with some odd entries thrown in in between: 14 episodes from season 5 and 10 episodes from season 7. HBO Max announced earlier this week, buried in a longer list of titles, that “select Sesame Street specials” would be removed, but that was downplaying it. Discovery has apparently spiked a massive chunk of the Sesame library from its service, amid a larger content reduction. Nearly three years later, HBO Max is under new management, and Warner Bros. ![]() ![]() They announced a deal with Sesame Workshop to shift decades of Sesame Street’s back-catalogue, plus the upcoming five years of new episodes, to the forthcoming streamer HBO Max. It seemed simpler in 2019, when HBO Max was still an apple in the eyes of AT&T executives trying to figure out what to do with WarnerMedia. Discovery of late: About 70 jobs were recently cut at HBO Max, and CNN said it was canceling its 30-year-old Reliable Sources program.Photo: Children’s Television Workshop/Getty Images With the WarnerMedia/Discovery merger having settled in for a few months, the cost-cutting moves have been adding up at Warner Bros. Discovery stock ( WBD) was a positive outlier in a down market for Communications stocks Friday, up 2.8%. That deal (which keeps the show on HBO Max until 2025) let Sesame Street move from a deficit operation to one that could nearly double production to 35 episodes per year. HBO and show producer Sesame Workshop reached a partnership deal in summer 2015 that gave HBO episode premier rights for shows that would later migrate to their traditional home of PBS. Of 456 total episodes of Sesame Street available Friday (down from a previous 650), only 29 are from the earliest seasons, and the streaming service lists a selection from seasons 1, 5 and 7 along with complete programs for seasons 39-52, Variety notes. Discovery looks to sharply curtail costs. HBO Max has removed about 200 older episodes of classic children's television show Sesame Street, the latest content removal that comes as the newly combined ownership at Warner Bros. ![]() The content cull at HBO Max ( NASDAQ: WBD) continues - and this time it's coming for Big Bird and Elmo.
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