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Iconic children's television series Sesame Street is on the move, heading to subscription-TV network HBO, in a first-of-its-kind deal.
Sesame Street and HBO have inked a five-year partnership, calling for all new episodes of the long-running series to first air on HBO and its multiple channels. After a nine-month window, those episodes will then be made available to PBS, which has been Sesame Street's home for the last 45 years.
"Over the past decade, both the way in which children are consuming video and the economics of the children's television production business have changed dramatically," said Joan Ganz Cooney, who conceived the program in 1966.
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