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Netflix strikes deal to bring Sesame Street to streaming giant

The platform will offer a new season and 90 hours of previous episodes to its 300 million subscribers.

In the late 1960s, Sesame Street co-founders Lloyd Morrisett and Joan Ganz Cooney approached Harvard University's Graduate School of Education with a novel way of teaching American children. A team led by a developmental psychologist worked with the Sesame founders to analyse childhood psychology and produce entertaining lessons. During a child obesity epidemic in the US in 2006, Sesame Street aired Health Habits segments designed to teach kids about diet and exercise.

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