‘The song “Mah Na Mah Ma” is forever synonymous with The Muppet Show. Since the ’70s, this catchy little ditty pops up in several other series and films featuring Jim Henson’s beloved creations. Later ...

“She (Joan Cooney, co-creator of “Sesame Street”) is doing what television would do if it loved people instead of trying to sell to people, and there’s all the difference in the world.” Television in ...

Imagine, for a moment, a world without "Sesame Street." Young children would become less proficient spellers, counters and performers of musical odes to rubber duckies. There would be no Elmo to be ...

He performed on 'Sing Along With Mitch' and was a teenage idol in Japan before spending 46 years on the iconic kids TV program. I grew up in the 70s watching Sesame Street - when I saw the news blip ...

A conservative union chairman has called out PBS and proposed to defund the network after its children's show “Sesame Street” introduced its first-ever Asian American Muppet early this week. What ...

The beloved children’s show has been a recurrent culture-war target, but a documentary on HBO shows how social purpose was built into it. By James Poniewozik There’s a rule in politics, or at least ...