Courtesy of Sesame Workshop(NEW YORK) — Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street in less than an hour?
The children’s TV show will no longer produce hour-long episodes, PBS told stations on Wednesday, according to Current.org. However, half-hour episodes of Sesame Street will continue to air.
As it stands now, hour-long episodes air on PBS stations in the morning, and half-hour episodes are broadcast in the afternoon. The hour-long version will go away in November.
PBS Kids and Sesame Workshop announced the decision “in response to the positive station and viewer feedback to the shorter version introduced last fall,” Current.org reports.
While some public TV execs who spoke with the website supported the move, Steve Graziano, managing partner of P3 Public Media in Lincoln, Nebraska, said he was “disappointed,” adding, “Nearly all of our children’s programming is animated, and it’s good to have shows with real people and Muppets that aren’t drawn on a computer.”
Sesame Street has been on the air as a 60-minute show since 1969.
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