Kicked off HBO Max, Elmo and mates discover a new dwelling

Prepare for episodes of Sesame Road sponsored by the letter “N,” as Netflix has stepped in to stream the no-longer-homeless kids’s present. 

The makers of Sesame Road made the announcement Monday morning, noting on X that “all new Sesame Road episodes” will quickly be streaming on Netflix. 

The information comes roughly six months after Max—quickly to (as soon as once more) be HBO Max—selected to not renew its take care of Sesame Workshop for brand new Sesame Road episodes. Max nonetheless has a deal for streaming older Sesame Road episodes, which is able to stay on the streamer till 2027, in response to Deadline. 

In addition to showing on Netflix, all the brand new episodes for Sesame Road season 56 will air day-and-date on PBS stations in addition to the PBS Youngsters app, a change from the Max days when Sesame Road followers needed to wait earlier than watching new episodes on PBS. 

Sesame Road’s transfer to Netflix is yet one more signal of the id disaster over at Max—or HBO Max, or no matter it’s referred to as today. 

HBO had been Sesame Road’s dwelling since 2016, properly earlier than HBO Max got here on the scene. Nonetheless, the legendary youngsters present slot in with Max’s former technique of being a giant tent fairly than a specialty purveyor of adult-oriented programming, therefore the rationale behind jettisoning the “HBO” a part of the “HBO Max” model. 

However sentiments about Max’s future started to shift in late 2024, because the streaming service started to drop a few of its extra well-liked kid-friendly programming within the curiosity of “prioritizing our deal with tales for adults and households,” as Max stated in a press release on the time. That shift culminated late final week, when Warner Bros. Discovery introduced that Max would return to being referred to as “HBO Max” this summer season. 

So it’s attention-grabbing that Netflix, by far the most important of Max’s opponents, swooped in to save lots of Sesame Road, a transfer that notches one other win for its personal assortment of youngsters’s programming. Clearly, Netflix is all too pleased to go big-tent with its streaming choice.