I do not want an entire CGI... no. There's nothing on TV now but CGI kids shows, and very few of them are anything to write home about. The Twiddlebugs I let slide, Abby's Flying School I had issues with initially... I'm not too happy with the obviously flash animated Sesame Street English Hello Kitty looking Cookie Monster segments. I do NOT want to see any more Muppets replaced by a cheaper CGI or Flash segment. The fact the show even uses puppets makes it a LOT more realistic than CGI rendered characters being super imposed over everything and having the humans interact with cardboard cutouts flatly.
CGI assistance to puppetry I'm all for. The Boulder in the Texas Telly episode... CGI effects enhancing puppetry... That I like to see. Blend of new and old. But to me, SS is special because they ARE puppets. Everyone else jumped onto that bandwagon, and now everything looks the same. And frankly, no matter how many advancements there are, all these kid's CGI shows look like they were made 15 or more years ago. Even Reboot, the first regular CGI TV show had better effects, and that was made in 94 or so. I hate how Mickey Mouse Clubhouse looks, and that's a major studio.
Yeah, an entire CGI Sesame Street is just not necessary, and goes against what the original intent was, as far as the setting and whatnot.
On the note of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, the show may look a little dull in that almost every other kid show is in CGI, but man, little kids LOVE the show. And at least Mickey and the gang are in CGI only on that show. I think of it as just a gimmick for the kiddies. (Man, I miss House of Mouse!)
Getting back to Sesame Street, that's not to say that it wouldn't be interesting to see characters in different ways on a temporary basis, Ernie, Bert, and even Elmo have been done as clay puppets, and of course Abby in CGI...I guess what I'm saying is, as long as its meant to be for specific segments and not permanatly, I'm ok with it. The live-action puppets will clearly never be replaced.
On that note, it would be interesting to see how Blogg and Gonnigan look as live-action Muppets....Mrs. Sparkenose could only exist as a CGI Muppet, she's just too thin to actually be created.