HBO Max Pulls Nearly 200 Sesame Street Episodes as Content Purge Continues Ahead of Discovery+ Merger

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Warner Bros. continues to cull its media content as part of its plan for the upcoming HBO Max/Discovery+ merger. The latest casualty of the merger is the long-running show aimed at...

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I wonder if this is how they cut that free HBO max tie with AT&T.
 
Tax writeoffs apparently. Don't know if that goes against the contract thet have for sesame through.
 
Grimlakin said:
I wonder if this is how they cut that free HBO max tie with AT&T.
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From what I've read customers who already have it can keep it (like myself). New customers will not be offered it for free any longer.
 
I don't understand. This seems more like censorship to me than anything else. Either remove the entire show, or none of it. Why were these episodes targeted for removal specifically? I suspect they didn't pass the PC test.
 
MadMummy76 said:
I don't understand. This seems more like censorship to me than anything else. Either remove the entire show, or none of it. Why were these episodes targeted for removal specifically? I suspect they didn't pass the PC test.
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I wouldn't call it censorship, but yeah - it's very odd that it's some and not all.

My best guess is that there is some different licensing - maybe back when it was PBS vs Sesame Workshop, or something with Hensen, or idk.
 
Brian_B said:
I wouldn't call it censorship, but yeah - it's very odd that it's some and not all.

My best guess is that there is some different licensing - maybe back when it was PBS vs Sesame Workshop, or something with Hensen, or idk.
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I'm pretty sure you're right. That and then there are the various guest stars that probably have different licensing costs as well.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
I'm pretty sure you're right. That and then there are the various guest stars that probably have different licensing costs as well.
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Surely they'd have all guests sign a full rights release for the show.
 
Its not censorship. Its money and fuzzy accounting. Declare it a loss, tax writeoff, plus no dividend or some such?
 
LOL wow someone was having fun with the systems on the I got laid off day FAAFO.
 
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