LOS ANGELES — It's a not-so-sunny day for "Sesame Street" as Warner Bros. Discovery continues to shake things up at HBO Max.
Friday, the media giant shocked and angered fans of "Sesame Street" by removing nearly 200 episodes of the seminal children's series from the streaming platform. The move comes on the heels of mass layoffs at HBO and HBO Max, among other efforts by the merging company to rebrand and cut costs.
According to Variety, the number of "Sesame Street" episodes available to stream on HBO Max shrunk on Friday from 650 to 456. Most of the deleted episodes hailed from the first 40 years of the show, which has been educating young children for 52 seasons and counting since 1969.
