In January, Sesame Street will premiere a new season on HBO with a reimagined “Elmo’s World” segment and a kindness curriculum relevant to today’s preschoolers as it heads into its 47th season.
In 25 five-minute installments, “Elmo’s World” teaches with pre-school relevant topics, live action films, and interactive thinking games such as matching, sorting, and counting. Kids accompany Elmo and his friend Smartie, an animated cell phone and learning tool, as he uses his imagination to dive into the topic of the day. Tony Award-winning Bill Irwin returns as Mr. Noodle. New characters include Mr. Noodle’s two brothers, played by the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Daveed Diggs from Broadway’s Hamilton and comedian Daniel Koren, and real pet dogs Schmoodle, Floodle, and Frank. Fans of the original “Elmo’s World” can still see Dorothy and the rest of Elmo’s friends in select season 47 episodes and in previous episodes of Sesame Street
In season 47, Sesame Street will introduce a kindness curriculum to foster behaviors that can have significant outcomes throughout a child’s life. In a study released last week by Sesame Workshop, it was revealed that nearly three-quarters of parents and almost four-fifths of teachers say they “often” worry the world is an unkind place for children.
Sesame Street’s kindness curriculum is woven throughout the new season, including a new “kindness cam” segment where kids, shown clips from the episode and live action films depicting real children doing similar acts of kindness, point out the kindness moment, thus reinforcing learning moments through repetition
The season will also feature celebrity appearances from Sia, Jason Derulo, James Cordon, Tori Kelly, and more.
