Classic Sesame Street episodes are coming to YouTube

YouTube is getting “hundreds” of afloat classical Sesame Street episodes opening successful January 2026. Once the episodes are available, “YouTube volition person the largest integer room of Sesame Street content,” Sesame Workshop says.

YouTube is already has a wealthiness of fashionable contented focused toward kids, including large channels similar Cocomelon (which is getting a theatrical movie in 2027) and Ms. Rachel (who besides has a woody with Netflix). The summation of the classical Sesame Street episodes could springiness parents different acquisition enactment if their kids privation to ticker thing connected the platform.

Speaking of Netflix, caller episodes of Sesame Street volition debut connected the work starting November 10th. Season 56 volition person “fresh format changes” including a absorption connected “one 11-minute story” per episode, Netflix says. The caller episodes volition besides beryllium disposable “same day-and-date successful the US connected PBS stations and PBS KIDS integer platforms.”

Last year, Warner Bros. Discovery chose not to renew its deal with Sesame Workshop to aerial caller Sesame Street episodes connected the streaming work present known (once again) as HBO Max.