Re: [TV orNotTV] Sesame Street Moves To HBO

2015-08-13 Thread Brad Beam
There is an HBO Family channel, which limits movie/original programming to TV14/PG13-level (roughly 12A equivalent) films. That may be where Sesame Street is specifically headed. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 13, 2015, at 12:10, Adam Bowie a...@adambowie.co.uk wrote: Excuse my ignorance, but

Re: [TV orNotTV] Sesame Street Moves To HBO

2015-08-13 Thread David Risner
They have a channel HBO Family which has a bunch of original programming plus family movies. Most of the original programming was produced quite some time ago though. I would suspect that Sesame Street would mostly run on this channel. -- David Risner Software Engineer MERLOT, California State

Re: [TV orNotTV] Sesame Street Moves To HBO

2015-08-13 Thread Brad Beam
That being said, here's a Sesame Street GoT parody, Game of Chairs. http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/06/sesame-street-game-thrones Sent from my iPhone On Aug 13, 2015, at 12:10, Adam Bowie a...@adambowie.co.uk wrote: Excuse my ignorance, but does HBO actually do much in the way of kids TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] Sesame Street Moves To HBO

2015-08-13 Thread Mark Jeffries
I wonder if HBO is going to require their Original Programming logo in front of the PBS repeats of Sesame Street, Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote: The head of Sesame Workshop mentioned that when

Re: [TV orNotTV] Sesame Street Moves To HBO

2015-08-13 Thread Doug Eastick
In Canada, I think that CBC gave us Fraggle Rock. Sundays at 5pm. On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:52 PM, M-D November mdnovem...@gmail.com wrote: HBO may not have much in their current slate re: children's programming, but lest we forget that HBO is the channel that gave us Fraggle Rock,

Re: [TV orNotTV] Sesame Street Moves To HBO

2015-08-13 Thread M-D November
HBO may not have much in their current slate re: children's programming, but lest we forget that HBO is the channel that gave us Fraggle Rock, Encyclopedia Brown, Tintin, Mr. Men...they do have a pedigree in the field. On Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 12:28:31 PM UTC-4, Brad Beam wrote: There

Re: [TV orNotTV] Sesame Street Moves To HBO

2015-08-13 Thread Adam Bowie
And in the UK it was ITV. But that was an unusual international coproduction where each territory had its own wraparound. In Britain we had a lighthouse keeper, with Fraggle being under the lighthouse! Adam On 13 Aug 2015 18:12, Doug Eastick east...@mcd.on.ca wrote: In Canada, I think that CBC

Re: [TV orNotTV] Sesame Street Moves To HBO

2015-08-13 Thread Adam Bowie
Excuse my ignorance, but does HBO actually do much in the way of kids TV at the moment? And is there a chance an inattentive parent might leave the TV tuned into HBO from Sesame Street into a daytime rerun of Game of Thrones or something? On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Joe Coughlin

Re: [TV orNotTV] Sesame Street Moves To HBO

2015-08-13 Thread Joe Hass
The head of Sesame Workshop mentioned that when he shopped the idea around, the non-negotiable was that the shows had to end up at PBS at some point. http://current.org/2015/08/hbo-to-premiere-new-sesame-street-shows-provide-them-for-free-to-pbs-in-5-year-deal/ And after reading the article,

Re: [TV orNotTV] Sesame Street Moves To HBO

2015-08-13 Thread Joe Coughlin
I think it's what's called a win-win. Public and Premium partnership. On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote: A five-season deal where HBO gets exclusive rights to the new shows for nine months, then PBS gets it for free. HBO also licenses 150 old episodes to

[TV orNotTV] Sesame Street Moves To HBO

2015-08-13 Thread Joe Hass
A five-season deal where HBO gets exclusive rights to the new shows for nine months, then PBS gets it for free. HBO also licenses 150 old episodes to fill in gaps as the new season launches. The same goes with digital rights: PBS holds onto the old episodes; HBO gets the digital rights with the