So what's with this Sesame Street shit?

[bowies]

The next 5 seasons will air on HBO first and then go to PBS after 9 months.

I'm so disappointed.

[bcarp30]

That sucks! I saw on the today show that they're cutting the episodes from 1 hour to 30 minutes but they didn't mention the HBO thing.

[niq]

They're going to have more episodes because of the deal, which is nice.

The saddest part is that there going t go remove old episodes from the catalogs of other video service providers like Amazon and a Netflix. So you have to subscribe to HBO, or hope that PBS Kids has an app for your device. Boo.

[kangaroo11]

I hope they don't mess with Play With Me Sesame. DD actually likes it more than Sesame Street.

[kershnic]

Aug 13, 2015 17:50:11 GMT -5 niq said:

They're going to have more episodes because of the deal, which is nice.

The saddest part is that there going t go remove old episodes from the catalogs of other video service providers like Amazon and a Netflix. So you have to subscribe to HBO, or hope that PBS Kids has an app for your device. Boo.

WHAT?  I guess my kids are never going to watch Sesame Street.    That's so sad.  

[niq]

Aug 13, 2015 19:20:03 GMT -5 kershnic said:

Aug 13, 2015 17:50:11 GMT -5 niq said:

They're going to have more episodes because of the deal, which is nice.

The saddest part is that there going t go remove old episodes from the catalogs of other video service providers like Amazon and a Netflix. So you have to subscribe to HBO, or hope that PBS Kids has an app for your device. Boo.

WHAT?  I guess my kids are never going to watch Sesame Street.    That's so sad.  

I checked and there is an app for Roku. I haven't tried it to see what the video quality is like.

I don't know what's going to happen to the YouTube Channel.

[browneyedgirl9]

Whaaaat? DS loves Elmo. I am way to cheap to get HBO.

[ilikedonuts]

Wait so what devices have an app then? We use Netflix and Amazon Prime (and on demand) for Sesame Street so we need something else. My mom has HBO I guess I can use her log in and use Chromecast on our tv.

[smilee1079]

There is a PBS app for ipad and android. My son watches shows on it on his Samsung tablet.

[niq]

Yeah it looks like the PBS Kids video app is pretty good as far as covering a lot of devices. Even Nook and Windows Phone. You might be screwed if you have an older or uncommon device, but most people won't need to go rush out and buy anything.

[ilikedonuts]

I know I'm in the minority with the fact that my kids watch a decent amount of tv, but 4 episodes a week is basically nothing in our house in the winter. So the app is pretty worthless to me.

[ilikedonuts]

My library has probably 60+ Sesame Street DVDs so I guess we'll make sure to check a lot of those out this winter!