HBO has announced that they'll be paying for the production costs for the next five years of Sesame Street. In return, the premium channel gets a nine-month exclusivity window to new episodes; after that, PBS can show them for free, as usual.
In this brief video, our puppet-like experts discuss if this HBO/Sesame Street deal is bad news!
What about you, reader? Are the benefits worth it? Is this a disservice to public broadcasting and its viewers? Let us know in the comments below!
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Cool, good deal for everyone, it seems like... The only question I would have is how this affects things like PBS reselling the episodes or licensing them to Netflix/Amazon Prime etc.
If HBO tightens the contract, however - then we can reconsider whether or not it's still a good deal. Now, however it seems to me it is.