Best CHristmas EVER??? - Cartoon Network and HBO Max To Bow Sesame Street LIII Season 53 on November 3rd, To Release Nutcracker Parody on December 1st

 If this was on the top of your wishlist, then Warner Bros.. Discovery have redeemed themselves after all their purge chaos and give you an early Christmas present. The highly anticipated 53rd season launch of the long-running groundbreaking kids show Sesame Street is expected to hit cable and SVOD television on Thursday November 3rd on Cartoon Network, Cartoonito and HBO Max. The episodes will debut on PBS and PBS Kids around August 2023. The second episode is aired 53 years exact to the show's original 77 million viewers series premiere back in 1969.

In addition, Elmo and his Sesame gang are decking the halls with their rendition of the Disney's/Kids II's Baby Einstein classic Christmas musical ballet The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a by Peter Ilyrch Tchaikovsky in the new holiday movie Sesame Street: The Nutcracker which will reach all five platforms at the beginning of the Christmas month on Thursday, December 1st.

Unfortunately only half of the season's episode titles are announced and this post will be updated constantly when the full episode guide titles are unveiled

Episodes include:
S53E01 Community MURAL?! November 3, 2022
S53E02 Sesame Street Superheroes November 10, 2022 (53rd anniversary)
S53E03 Kind Rudy November 17, 2022
S53E04 The Great Corn Festival November 24, 2022
S53E05 Jobs Day December 1, 2022
S53E06 Bert's Bike Time with Luis rerun December 8, 2022
S53E07 Happy HAIRday December 15, 2022
S53E08 Rudy's Favorite Sweater rerun December 22, 2022
S5e#09 How to Catch a Robot Dog December 29, 2022
S53E10 Big Bird and the Good Birds Club rerun January 5, 2023
S53E11 Tango Wins a Gold Medal January 12, 2023
S53E12 Bubbles Trouble! Januaryy 19, 2003
S53E13 Nanny Bird Visits January 26, 2023
S53E14 Family Photos Album February 2, 2023
S53E15 ROCK OUT with Elmo and Abby February 9, 2023
S53E16 Read & Share February 16, 2023
S53E17 Golidilocks is JUST RIGHT February 23, 2023
S53E18 Art Rocks!!! March 2, 2023
S53E19 Cinderella's New Shoes rerun March 9, 2023
S53E20 Count On March 16, 2023
S53E21 GROUCHercise March 23, 2023
S53E22 Monster Trucking March 30, 2023
S53E23 LITERALLY Horsing Around April 6, 2023
S53E24 Move and Groove Day on Sesame Street rerun April 13, 2023
S53E25 Fans of the LITERAL Fan Dance April 20, 2023
S53E26 Making Music with Bob McGrath rerun April 27, 2023
S53E27 Recycling Fairy to the Rescue! rerun May 4, 2023
S53E28 The Letter C Vacation May 11, 2023
S53E29 The BORING Laundry Wash Day May 18, 2023
S53E30 The Community Garden Cleanup May 25, 2023
S53E31 Love Makes a Family rerun June 1, 2023
S53E32 Gabriella and the Amazing Maze June 8, 2023
S53E33 Grandparents Day June 15, 2023
S53E54 Ramp Racers rerun June 22, 2023
S53E35 Fruits Take the Day Off?! June 29, 2023 (Season Finale)

CAST
Alan - ALAN MURRAKA
Almando - ISMAEL CRUZ CORDOVA reruns only
Bob - BOB MCGRATH reruns only
Charlie - VIOLET TINNIRELLO
Chris - CHRISTOPHER KNOWINGS
David - CHRISTOPHER COSTA
Frank - ALEX WEISMAN
Gordon - ROSCOE ORMAN reruns only
Luis - EMILLIO DELGADO reruns only
Maria - SONYA MANZANO reruns only
Mia - OLIVIA PEREZ
Mr. Noodle - BILL IRWIN
Mr. Noodle's Brothers - DANIEL KORUM & DAVEED DIGGS
Mrs. Noodle - ILLIANA GLOVER
Nina - SUKI LOPEZ
Susan - DR. LORETTA LONG reruns only
CAROLL SPINNEY, ERIC JACOBSON and MATT VOGEL as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch

Voice Cast
RYAN DILLON as Elmo
JENNIFER BARNHART as Zoe
LESLIE CARRARA-RUDOLPH as Abby Cadabby
DAVID RUDMAN as Cookie Monster and Baby Bear
PETER LINZ as Ernie
ERIC JACOBSON as Bert and Grover
STEPHANIE D. ABRUZZIO as Prairie Dawn
CARMEN OSBAHR as Rosita
MARTIN P. ROBINSON as Mr. Snuffleupagus and Telly Monster
MATT VOGEL as Count von Count and Mr. Johnson

This year's celebrity guest star appearances
Zazie Beetz
Vice President Jill Biden
Ava DuVernay
Brett Goldstein
Mickey Guyton
Haim
Samuel L. Jackson (Snakes on the Plane, PAWS OF FURY: The Legends of Hank)
Amber Raffin

This will be the last season to air on HBO Max, as Warner Bros./Discovery Communications Inc. President and CEO David Zaslav has confirmed that HBO Max and Discovery+ will be merging into a new network simply called MAX giving you two streaming service apps for the price of one. MAX launches on Tuesday May 23rd, 2023.

Seasons 54-55 of the show will be streamed from around November 2023-June 2025 and will probably air on PBS Kids between August 2023-September 2025. These are just speculations and are not the accurate dates as another 70 episodes are in production.

Update: (11/18/2022) December episodes added
Update: (12/12/2022) January 2023 episodes added
Update: (01/28/2023) February 2023 episodes added
Update: (03/02/2023) March episodes added
Update: (04/01/2023) April episodes added
Update: (05/04/2023) May episodes aded
Update: (06/01/2023) June episodes added and schedule completed