In probably devastating information for youths and oldsters, about 200 episodes of Sesame Avenue have been faraway from HBO Max, Selection stories. Most of the dropped episodes are from the present’s earliest seasons, and the variety of Sesame Avenue episodes on the service has fallen from round 650 to 456, based on Selection.
HBO and Sesame Avenue have been related for years; WarnerMedia (now Warner Bros. Discovery) locked in an enormous five-year deal in 2019 to solely stream new episodes of the present, and Sesame Avenue first started airing on HBO in 2016.
“Sesame Avenue is and has at all times been an essential a part of tv tradition and a crown jewel of our preschool providing,” HBO Max spokesperson Chris Willard mentioned in an announcement to The Verge. “We’re dedicated to persevering with to convey Sesame Avenue into households’ properties, together with the most recent season premiering this fall and the almost 400 episodes of essentially the most present and historic seasons that stay on Cartoonito on HBO Max.
The older episodes of Sesame Avenue aren’t the one exhibits which are getting pulled; based on NPR, Warner Bros. Discovery can be planning to take away 36 titles from HBO Max. That features some Sesame Avenue specials and the late-night-style present starring Elmo, in addition to HBO Max Originals like Infinity Practice and Summer time Camp Island.
“As we work towards bringing our content material catalogs collectively beneath one platform, we shall be making modifications to the content material providing accessible on each HBO Max and Discovery Plus,” HBO Max mentioned in an announcement to Selection concerning the choice to tug 36 exhibits. “That can embody the elimination of some content material from each platforms.” The brand new app changing HBO Max and Discovery Plus is ready to launch subsequent summer season.
Warner Bros. Discovery has been dropping content material left and proper; it not too long ago shelved Batgirl and yanked not less than six Warner Bros. motion pictures from HBO Max. Earlier this week, the corporate minimize jobs at HBO Max due to overlap from the Warner Bros. Discovery megamerger.
Replace August nineteenth, 5:58PM ET: Added assertion from HBO Max.