HBO to Release STREET GANG: HOW WE GOT TO SESAME STREET Documentary Next Year
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HBO has a new documentary coming in 2021 that many are going to want to check out. Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street will follow the creators, artists, writers, and educators who helped create the show that everyone loves, Sesame Street. I know that I grew up on and still love the show. I’ve watched a number of episodes with my kid, and it’s a lot of fun.
In the late 1960s, socially conscious media executive Joan Ganz Cooney and Sesame Workshop co-founder Lloyd Morrisett took on a revolutionary experiment: To harness the burgeoning power of television and create an educational, impactful, 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 and uplifting world of “Sesame Street.”
Inspired by the civil rights movement, STREET GANG: HOW WE GOT TO SESAME STREET focuses on the first two experimental and groundbreaking decades of “Sesame Street,” highlighting this visionary “gang” that audaciously interpreted radical changes in society and engaged children in ways that entertained and educated them like never before.
There’s no word on when Street Gang will come out other than 2021. Are you excited to see this documentary?