EBay founder Jeff Skoll’s Participant Prods. is fully financing and producing docu, “The World According to Sesame Street,” from co-directors Linda Goldstein Knowlton and Linda Hawkins Costigan. Film, ...

The intentions are more laudable than the execution in "The World According to Sesame Street," an ambitious but finally frustrating behind-the-scenes look at efforts to export the popular U.S.

Given how very American it seems, it’s almost odd how global a phenomenon “Sesame Street” is -- no “CSI: Miami,” perhaps, though I would trade a truckload of David Carusos for a single Grover. It runs ...