Elmo Quits Warner Bros. Discovery?!?! - Sesame Street Season 55 To Premiere Thursday January 16th at 9:00AM (ET/PT) on Cartoonito and HBO Max

America's favorite preschool series keeps on cooking even though some families today think this show is overstaying their welcome. The landmark series Sesame Street is about to commence its unbeatable 55th year on the air, with more adventures of Elmo, Big Bird, Grover, Cookie Monster, Abby Cadabby, Rudy, Julia, Elmo's stupid dog Tango and all your favorite Sesame friends!

The new season is slated to premiere on Cartoon Network, Cartoonito and HBO Max on Thursday January 16, 2025 at 9:00AM (ET/PT) with new episodes dropping weekly as usual. The season will also premiere on cable channels on your local PBS stations and PBS Kids towards the end of the year, beginning on Labor Day Monday September 1st.

Schedule and Episode Guide
S55E01 January 16, 2025 (Season 55 Premiere)
S55E02 January 23, 2025
S55E03 January 30, 2025
S55E04 February 6, 2025
S55E05 February 13, 2025
S55E06 February 20, 2025
S55E07 February 27, 2025
S55E08 March 6, 2025
S55E09 March 13, 2025
S55E10 March 20, 2025
S55E11 March 27, 2025
S55E12 April 3, 2025
S55E13 April 10, 2025
S55E14 April 17, 2025
S55E15 April 24, 2025
S55E16 May 1, 2025
S55E17 May 8, 2025
S55E18 May 15, 2025
S55E19 May 22, 2025
S55E20 May 29, 2025
S55E21 June 5, 2025
S55E22 June 12, 2025
S55E23 June 19, 2025
S55E24 June 26, 2025
S55E25 July 3, 2025
S55E26 July 10, 2025
S55E27 July 17, 2025
S55E28 July 24, 2025
S55E29 July 31, 2025
S55E30 August 7, 2025
S55E31 August 14, 2025
S55E32 August 21, 2025
S55E33 August 28, 2025
S55E34 September 4, 2025
S55E35 September 11, 2025 (Season 55 Finale)

This is the third season in Sesame Street's current contract deal to premiere at the beginning of the year right after the New Years holidays, following Seasons 46-47 in 2016 and 2017 respectively.

Unfortunately, the new season of Sesame Street kills off two birds in one stone, as it's not only the final season to be aired in the current deal between Sesame Workshop, PBS and the stupid content purging and project cancellation idiots at Warner Bros. Discovery, but sadly it is also the last season to use the iconic magazine style format that has been a core staple since day one.

Starting with Season 56 slated to premiere on Sesame Street's potential new broadcasters of Disney+ and Apple TV+ in November 2025, Sesame Street will be reinventing itself for a whole new generation, taking on the more tried and tested methods of having each half-hour episode consisting of two 11-15 minute stories each, which has been a common practice for the franchise ever since they started doing this format in the show's 33rd season back in 2002 which saw the dawn of its 4000th episode.

The ending of the magazine format going into 2026 means that unfortunately the show will be losing its iconic sketches, including miniseries starring its three corporate mascots, Abby Cadabby's Amazing Adventures, Cookie Monster's Foodie Truck and everybody's favorite, Elmo's World. Also gone following the end of season 56 is its iconic experimental animations, funny song parodies, its signature sponsors of the letters and numbers of the day, and of course the biggest blow, the new reimagining will lack celebrity appearances for no reason at all whatsoever.

It's currently unknown whether the current set of Sesame Street miniseries including Elmo's World, Cookie Monster's Foodie Truck, Abby Cadabby's Amazing Adventures, Elmo & Tango's Mysterious Mysteries and the newly launched Sesame Street: Nature Explorers will get cancelled or continue as separate miniseries as when the show is aired internationally in other countries, global channels like Disney Junior in Southeast Asia, Channel 5's Milkshake in the UK and ABC Kids in Australia air the Sesame Street segment series such as Abby's Flying Fairy School, Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures, Elmo: The Musical, Cookie Monster's Crumby Pictures, Global Grover, Super Grover 2.0 and Murray Has a Little Lamb as their own separate shows with their own end credits.

Cast
Alan - ALAN MURRAKA
Armando - ISMAEL CRUZ CORDOVA (reruns only)
Bob - BOB MCGRATH (reruns only)
Chris - CHRIS KNOWINGS
Gabi - DESIREE CANADO (reruns only)
Gina - ALLISON BARTLETT (reruns only)
Gordon - ROSCOE ORMAN (reruns only)
Leela - NITYA VIDAYGASAN (reruns only)
Luis - EMILLIO DELGADO (reruns only)
Maria - SONIA MANZANO
Miles - IMANI PATTERSON (reruns only)
Mr. Noodle - BILL IRWIN
Mr. Noodle's Brothers - DANIEL KOREM and DAVEED DIGS
Nina - SUKI LOPEZ
Susan - DR. LORETTA LONG (reruns only)

CAROLL SPINNEY, MATT VOGEL and ERIC JACOBSON
as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch

Featuring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets
KEVIN CLASH and RYAN DILLON as Elmo
FRAN BRILL and JENNIFER BARNHART as Zoe
DAVID RUDMAN as Cookie Monster and Baby Bear
LESLIE CARRARA-RUDOLPH as Abby Cadabby
ERIC JACOBSON as Bert, Grover and Guy Smiley
STEVE WHITEMIRE and PETER LINZ as Ernie
FRAN BRILL and STEPHANIE D'ABRUZZIO as Prairie Dawn
MARTIN P. ROBINSON as Telly Monster
MARTIN P. ROBINSON and BRYANT YOUNG as Mr. Snuffleupagus
CARMEN OSBAHR as Rosita
JOEY MAZZARION as Murray Monster
JERRY NELSON and MATT VOGEL as Count von Count
MARTIN P. ROBINSON and MATT VOGEL as the Yip Yip Martians

Celebrity guest stars have yet to be announced

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