The Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch and the remainder of the gang are leaving HBO Max this month, when season 55 of Sesame Road involves an in depth.
However by no means concern, the tutorial sequence and beloved cult traditional has discovered a brand new house on Netflix for future seasons. However that’s not all – should you don’t pay for Netflix, then there can be a solution to watch the present without spending a dime from subsequent yr.
When is Sesame Road coming to Netflix?
Sesame Road will seem on Netflix ranging from 10 November 2025, with season 56 premiering on the service. Round 90 hours of previous seasons may even be out there to stream.
The Tudum weblog put up confirms that new episodes will now concentrate on a singular 11-minute story (dropping the standard journal format), and can be out there on the identical day that they air on PBS channels without spending a dime.
Based on Sesame Workshop (through Selection):
We’re excited to announce that each one new ‘Sesame Road’ episodes are coming to Netflix worldwide together with library episodes, and new episodes may even launch the identical day on PBS Stations and PBS Children platforms within the U.S., preserving a 50+ yr relationship. The assist of Netflix, PBS and the Company for Public Broadcasting function a singular public-private partnership to allow Sesame Road to proceed to assist youngsters in all places develop smarter, stronger, and kinder.
Kay Wilson Stallings, Government Vice President, Chief Inventive Growth and Manufacturing Officer for Sesame Workshop, revealed that Sesame Road can be reimagined on Netflix. The segments can be longer and the tales extra subtle, and the present can be enriched with a brand new animated sequence, Tales From 123. The much-loved Elmo’s World and Cookie Monster’s Foodie Truck segments may even return.
It’s price noting that Netflix may even develop video video games for Sesame Road, in addition to Sesame Road Mecha Builders.
In case you don’t have Netflix, then there’s another choice – should you’re ready to attend.
Stream Sesame Road without spending a dime from subsequent yr
From January 2026, the largest video streaming website, YouTube, will get the biggest library of Sesame Road content material.
YouTube is free to make use of, and Children content material (which we assume Sesame Road falls beneath) is ad-free, so that you don’t even want a YouTube Premium account to keep away from commercials.
There can be authentic content material from the Sesame Workshop unique to YouTube, in addition to full episodes. Plus, YouTube will host seminars for creators who wish to create instructional content material for youths, encouraging extra movies for youthful audiences.
It’s unclear in the intervening time if this deal will embody season 56 of Sesame Road, which debuts on Netflix in November.
What’s taking place to Sesame Road on HBO Max?
Warner Bros. Discovery introduced in December 2024 that it wouldn’t renew its five-year contract to distribute the present on HBO Max. Warner’s choice was associated to a change in technique for its streaming service.
Because the spokesperson for HBO Max acknowledged (through The Hollywood Reporter):
It has been a beautiful, inventive expertise working with everybody at Sesame Road on the long-lasting youngsters’s sequence and we’re thrilled to have the ability to hold a few of the library sequence on Max within the US. As we’ve launched Max although and primarily based on shopper utilization and suggestions, we’ve needed to prioritize our concentrate on tales for adults and households, and so new episodes from Sesame Road, at the moment, aren’t as core to our technique.
Nonetheless, it doesn’t imply that Sesame Road will instantly disappear from HBO Max – the sequence can be out there on the platform by means of 2027.
After all, US-based viewers will nonetheless be capable of catch episodes of Sesame Road each day on PBS stations and PBS Children digital platforms.