HBO DOCUMENTARY FILMS SLATES SESAME STREET DOC FOR 2021

HBO Documentary Films will look back on the first two decades of beloved PBS children’s program Sesame Street in the new feature documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, premiering on HBO and HBO Max in 2021.

In the late 1960s, media executive Joan Ganz Cooney and Sesame Workshop co-founder Lloyd Morrisett took on an experiment to harness the burgeoning power of television and create an educational and entertaining show that could reach children nationwide.

Cooney recruited visionary Muppets creator Jim Henson and acclaimed children’s television writer and director Jon Stone to craft the iconic world of Sesame Street.