Sesame Street Season 46 Press Kit; HBO premiere set for Saturday January 16, 2016

[cahuenga]

I was reading the season 46 press kit and I don't understand why is Sonia Manzano among the cast bios of the season if she has quit the show before season 46 began shooting...

 

[Oscarfan]

I dunno. She's not in any of the repeat episodes.

 

[Pig'sSaysAdios]

I was reading the season 46 press kit and I don't understand why is Sonia Manzano among the cast bios of the season if she has quit the show before season 46 began shooting...

I also noticed that Desiree Casado was credited in season 43 despite making her final appearance in season 42.

 

[D'Snowth]

Keep in mind that often times the seasons are produced at least a year in advance, and Sonia only recently retired, likewise Joey just recently left, so more than likely Season 46 was already filmed before all of this happened.

 

[Pig'sSaysAdios]

Keep in mind that often times the seasons are produced at least a year in advance, and Sonia only recently retired, likewise Joey just recently left, so more than likely Season 46 was already filmed before all of this happened.

But I think she left before they started filming this season.

 

[antsamthompson9]

Him and Ryan Dillon are great puppeteers and both have a great vocal range,I hope they get to play some other characters.

Ryan has played several characters since he took over Elmo: Phil (Grover's tall monster game), Pink customer (Episode 4511), Cinderella (Coach with Pau Gasol), Orange (Super Grover 2.0: Fruit), Grandson (Cookie's Crumby Pictures: Jurassic Cookie), Red and Nan (Episode 4519). I'm sure the same will happen with Billy.

 

[Daffyfan4ever]

I've been suspecting age discrimination for a long time. The kids watching the show never said "Oh I hate Bob and Gordon because they're too old". Just a few years ago Gordon was in like half the episodes every season,kids seemed to really like him,then all of a sudden they start shoe horning Chris into every single episode and Gordon's only in like two freakin' episodes in Season 45.

I agree. I always enjoyed it when he closed the show as "Trash Gordon." Now we don't see that much of him. Maybe now it will be "Trash Chris" or something. Who knows?

 

[minor muppetz]

Considering the show will now be 30 minutes, it's probably best that the opening be shortened considerably to give us more material.

I wonder if that closing song will appear during or before the closing credits. I didn't see credits when I watched the clip.

It was said that there's going to be less parody segments because parent viewers seem to have dropped. I wonder if existing parody segments will continue to be rerun. Dropping parodies might be a good thing, considering these episodes won't come to PBS until nine months later (and the parodies could be considered dated by then).

 

[D'Snowth]

I've said it before (and I believe Drtooth has too), but that's a drawback to producing seasons so far in advance (and for a while there, they were doing two seasons in advance), by the time they make it to air, the references are a tad dated.

 

[D'Snowth]

I wonder what other Muppet mothers we'll see, since at least I saw Grover's and Cookie's mom. Also I wonder if theirs a father's day episode coming next season?

Am I the only one who's slightly disturbed by the redesigns of Grover and Cookie's moms? Just slightly? They seem to have a rather youthful redesign, they look more like they would be those characters' sisters rather than their moms.