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How ‘Sesame Street’ took root in post-Soviet Russia as ‘Ulitsa Sezam’
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In a new memoir, the lead producer behind the creation of Russia’s “Sesame Street” recounts the show’s tumultuous birth.
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In a new memoir, the lead producer behind the creation of Russia’s “Sesame Street” recounts the show’s tumultuous birth.
The project’s content will encourage conversations “that parents, caregivers or providers often don’t know how to start.”
To one viewer and parent, competitive pressures and fading institutional knowledge have compromised the show’s “gritty urban utopianism.”
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network said that a resource kit for parents, developed by the autism organization Autism Speaks, furthers “stigma against autistic children and adults.”
“We wanted to bring ‘Sesame Street’ to every street,” said Bobbi English, VP of North American television at Sesame Workshop.
More than 4,000 episodes of the show will be made available to the public over the next year.
Comments from a former writer for the show prompted a tweet from the Workshop Tuesday.
In the late ’60s, Morrisett and his collaborators on “Sesame Street” wanted to know: Could television teach?
To guarantee the show’s success, its creators had to win over a diverse group of educational broadcasters in the late ’60s.