Sesame Street’s next season will stream on Netflix

Sunny days are connected their mode to Netflix. The streamer conscionable announced that the adjacent play of Sesame Street volition beryllium disposable connected Netflix “later this year.”

Season 56 of the amusement won’t beryllium afloat exclusive to Netflix, arsenic the institution says that it “has exclusive worldwide premiere rights and episodes volition beryllium disposable day-and-date connected PBS stations successful the US and crossed PBS KIDS integer platforms.” The streamer besides says that the caller play volition see immoderate format changes, describing it arsenic “reimagined.” Those see caller animated segments and what Netflix calls “one 11-minute story” per episode. “The longer format provides the accidental to archer stories with adjacent much character-driven wit and heart,” Netflix explains.

Sesame Street has been searching for a streaming location ever since it was dropped from Max (now HBO Max erstwhile again) astatine the extremity of 2024. In summation to the caller episodes, Netflix says that it volition beryllium streaming “90 hours of erstwhile episodes,” though determination are nary specifics arsenic to what volition beryllium available. The streamer besides intends to make Sesame Street games arsenic portion of the deal.

The summation of Sesame Street volition supply different boost to Netflix’s kid-oriented programming, joining caller additions similar Ms. Rachel.