Sesame Street in the UK?

[kbug67]

Is there any Channels in the UK That shows Sesame Street.

I know that Channel 4 did but that was until 2000 when it
was replaced by the Hoobs

All we get in the uk is those elmo toys and merchendise but NO SHOW OR DVDS
Please HELP!

 

[Luke]

Elmo's World is on FIVE LIFE i think. Hoobs is just as good as Sesame Street - I've never seen a Sesame Muppet than can dance quite like a HOOB !

 

[jusnic]

Sesame Street in the UK

Play With Me Sesame is shown on Playhouse Disney and rumour has it that the Sesame Workshop is working with BBC Northern Ireland on producing an Irish version of Sesame Street that will promote "working together" on both sides of the Northern Irish divide.

Justin.

 

[zozzykid]

seasame street is now play with me sesame its on the disney channel on sky

 

[D'Snowth]

Gee, I didn't think anyone in the U.K. liked Sesame Street.

 

[Beauregard]

You make broad speculations about people in the UK, my dear.

I'd wondered myself whether any of the new shows were shown here. It's possible that it was cancelled because each show is quite lengthy. Most shows here are only 5-10 minutes long, for kids that age. I think?

 

[D'Snowth]

You make broad speculations about people in the UK, my dear.

Can't help it; comes from past experiences.

 

[abiraniriba]

not from U.K. but part Brit

I'm not from the U.K. but I'm part British and I read somewhere that they cancelled the American version of the show because they were having problems with the spelling of cooky and the name of the last letter of the alphabet zed.

 

[Harvey Towers]

We wouldn't cancel a show because of “cookie” being spelt wrong!
Misrepresenting all biscuits as cookies, possibly...

The pronunciation of some letters may have been an issue though – my theory is you can tell whether people of my age grew up watching "Playdays" or "Sesame Street" by whether they say "j-i" and "zed" or "jay" and "zee"

Playhouse Disney is Sky Channel 625 and this shows archive material (including the odd clip with Kermit) as well as new sketches with Kit and Domby and linking material (presumably from the American version) with Ernie, Bert, Grover and Prairie Dawn.

 

[mikebennidict]

I'm not from the U.K. but I'm part British and I read somewhere that they cancelled the American version of the show because they were having problems with the spelling of cooky and the name of the last letter of the alphabet zed.

It was probably more than that.

I know that there's some different ways of pronoucing things and some things have different names. Fom example, elevators are called Lifts I believe so it's kind of interesting that the US version of SS was even shown there.