Sesame Street

Sesame Street is a live-action, puppetry, animation, sketch comedy, and educational children's television program produced in the United States. It was developed by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett for Sesame Workshop. It features short films with comedy and cultural allusions and is well renowned for the imagery it conveys via the use of Jim Henson's Muppets. It had a successful debut on November 10, 1969, with a lot of viewers, considerable controversy, and favorable reviews. Since its inception, it has been shown on the national public television network PBS in the United States. On January 16, 2016, it moved from PBS to HBO for its first run, then in 2020 it moved to HBO Max, its sibling streaming service. One of the oldest television programs ever produced is Sesame Street.

A method of planning, production, and assessment based on cooperation between producers, authors, educators, and researchers was devised by the project's creators not long after it was first created and came to be known as the CTW Model. Government and private organizations first provided funding for the program, but because to income from licensing deals, overseas sales, and other media, it is now mostly self-sustaining. Sesame Street clones created separately were shown in 20 nations by 2006. When Sesame Street celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2009, it was aired in more than 140 countries, up from over 120 million viewers in 2001.

The American children's television program Sesame Street was ranked 15th at that time. By the time they were three, 95% of all American preschoolers had seen it, according to a 1996 poll. It was projected that 86 million Americans watched it as kids in 2018. More awards than any other children's program as of 2021 were its 205 Emmys and 11 Grammys.