The sesame workshop announces layoffs: NPR

Sesame Workshop “announced the significant reduction” A note to staff.

The layoffs arrive about two months after Max said that he would stop distributing Sesame Street episodes after 2025 and in a day after more than 200 of its employees asked for the sesame workshop to recognize that they want to form a union. CAST – Like the puppeteers – the crew and the writers are already unionized, said a press release from the local Opeiu 153.

“In the midst of the evolution of the media and financing landscape, we made the decision difficult to reduce the size of our organization,” wrote a spokesperson for a workshop on Sesame in an E-mail at NPR.

Last December, Warner Bros. Discovery, owner of Max, announcement That after 10 years, he does not renew his agreement to finance new episodes of the emblematic children’s series. At the time, the company declared that its priorities had changed and that Sesame Street was “not also at the heart of our strategy”.

Sesame Workshop said that layoffs “are necessary to ensure that the workshop is ready to continue delivering its mission for the coming years, but that does not make the human impact of these less painful reductions”.

Max is currently broadcasting the 55th season of Sesame Street. Sesame Workshop has not announced a new distributor, but said that the production of its 56th season will start next month.

History published by Jennifer Vanasco and Kristian Monroe.