This February 4, 2010 file photo shows Sesame Street characters Elmo (left), Abby Cadabby (right) and Cookie Monster as they celebrate the renaming of the corner of 31st Street and Eighth Avenue to ‘Sesame Street’ in New York. After 45 years on US public television, Sesame Street is relocating to HBO.

After 45 years on US public television, Sesame Street is relocating to HBO in a move its creators say will result in more new episodes of the beloved children’s programme.
Starting this fall, Sesame Street will run for five seasons on the pay TV channel and its Internet streaming options, its producer, the non-profit Sesame Workshop, said in a statement yesterday.
“As a key part of the deal, Sesame (Workshop) will be able to produce almost twice as much new content as previous seasons,” it said.
Once aired on HBO, episodes will be made available nine months later to the PBS public television network – the show’s home since its inception – free of charge.
Besides the iconic series, Sesame Workshop said it will produce what it called “a Sesame Street Muppet spinoff series” in addition to “a new original educational series for children”.