Showing 121 - 135 of 137 articles tagged "Sesame Street"

• Posted Tuesday 9/18/18 at 3:13PM EDT

  Sesame Street responds after ex-writer says Bert and Ernie are a gay couple: They "do not have a sexual orientation"

  Mark Saltzman, who began writing for Sesame Street in 1984, said in an interview with Queerty the duo are a...

• Posted Tuesday 9/18/18 at 8:17AM EDT

  Pampers gets rid of Sesame Street characters amid gender concerns

  Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch no longer appear on Pampers diapers after complaints that Sesame Street...

• Posted Wednesday 8/22/18 at 1:56PM EDT

  Sesame Street re-creates The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air opening with Bert and Ernie

  “Won’t take long, just a minute you see.

• Posted Wednesday 7/18/18 at 1:42PM EDT

  Jimmy Kimmel enlists Sesame Street's Grover to explain to President Trump the difference between "would" and "wouldn't"

  Kimmel showed an educational clip featuring Grover in response to Trump's would/wouldn't Putin press conference explanation.

• Posted Wednesday 6/20/18 at 1:32PM EDT

  Sesame Workshop teams with Apple to develop kids' programming

  The nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street will create live-action and animated series plus a new puppet series for Apple.

• Posted Wednesday 5/30/18 at 9:55PM EDT

  Judge rejects Sesame Street producers' lawsuit against Melissa McCarthy puppet movie

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• Posted Friday 5/25/18 at 7:45PM EDT

  Sesame Street producers sue over Melissa McCarthy's The Happytime Murders, featuring "ejaculating puppets"

  Sesame Workshop isn't happy with the upcoming film's puppet-themed tagline "No Sesame, All Street," claiming that the trailer for the...

• Posted Friday 4/06/18 at 4:27AM EDT

  Sesame Street theme park is the first to receive a certification for autism and awareness training

  Sesame Place staffers have been trained to interact with children with autism.

• Posted Sunday 3/04/18 at 2:12PM EST

  Jimmy Kimmel celebrated Oscar Sunday by making an Oscar the Grouch-themed pancake for his daughter

  Kimmel posted yet another photo to Instgram of his artistic pancake creations, which his wife Molly McNearney complained about this...

• Posted Thursday 1/18/18 at 9:48PM EST

  Sesame Street’s HBO evolution includes cutting down on pop-culture parodies

  “Because fewer adults actually pay attention to Sesame Street these days, the series has turned down the dial on pop-culture...

• Posted Thursday 12/21/17 at 2:06PM EST

  Sesame Street awarded a $100 million grant to serve refugee children

  The MacArthur Foundation grant is aimed at building an early-childhood education program for kids dealing with "toxic stress" in Jordan,...

• Posted Tuesday 12/12/17 at 5:50PM EST

  Sesame Street announces a new executive producer

  Ben Lehmann has been with the children’s show since 2001, rising from production assistant to supervising producer to executive producer.

• Posted Monday 11/27/17 at 8:49AM EST

  Stranger Things finally gets a Sesame Street parody

  “Cookiegorgon” is the star of Sesame Street's Sharing Things.

• Posted Friday 10/27/17 at 10:04PM EDT

  In praise of Cookie Monster, “the literary Muppet”

  “Cookie’s idiosyncratic pronouns and truncated consonant clusters are a ruse,” says Tim Carmody.

• Posted Tuesday 10/10/17 at 10:15PM EDT

  Sesame Street launches an initiative to help kids cope with traumatic experiences

  Sesame Street in Communities is an online resource for helping children get through very stressful childhood experiences.