NEW YORK -- You don't get to be the longest-running children's show in U.S. TV history by doing the same thing over and over. So even though parents who grew up watching "Sesame Street" can still see ...

Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who played Sesame Street‘s Big Bird as well as Oscar the Grouch character since the iconic children’s show’s premiere episode in 1969, is retiring. Producer Sesame ...

Sesame Street runs around the world. The classic children's program, home to Big Bird and Elmo, the Letter of the Day, and the "Rubber Duckie" song, turns 50 years old Sunday. But in addition to the ...

Robert Cunniff, 81, a television writer and producer who shared an Emmy Award in the early 1970s as a producer of “Sesame Street,” died Jan. 20 at a nursing facility in Brooklyn, N.Y., after a long ...

Following several months of upheaval, a sense of calm is coming to "Sesame Street." In a series of announcements May 19, the beloved children's show producer Sesame Workshop revealed it will begin ...

With operating costs of more than $100? million a year, 'Sesame Street' was at one point barely bringing in enough money to stay afloat. By Marisa Guthrie It pays practically no taxes. It gets ...

It looked a little uncertain for Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Big Bird and their friends when Max announced late last year that it would no longer distribute new episodes of Sesame Street. But like every scary ...