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Well, it's not necessarily what the producers think, it's the viewers.
Remember Michael Loman? He was the executive producer of the show from 1993 until 2002. He was the main man that wanted the show to be for younger kids, and not older kids. He thought there were too many characters, and that the show was too complicated for today's audience. The stuff he took off before anything else was the rock parodies like Born To Add, Co-Operation, and everything with Little Chrissy. He thought there was too much rock and roll on the show, so he wanted to take some of it off.
Are you wondering where I'm getting this? Chris Cerf told me himself! Everyone says that's just a rumor. Nobody else has heard that, or even believes it. I think it's because that stuff is too old for the show today. See, the audience of the show has gotten younger and younger over the years. What I think happened was, they came out with Barney, which was at the time, younger than Sesame Street, and because of that, SS's audience was getting younger as well, so they had to make the show seem that way.
Also, the kids that are watching don't care how often the shows are repeated. They may not even realize it. Because the audience is so young today, well, 130 shows is way too many. Kids don't like variety, they like repetition. This is probably why everyday segments like Elmo's World have been so successful. And because that was such a success, they added more of them, like Journey to Ernie.
The old format wasn't working anymore because the kids of today are actually smart enough to take the remote and change the channel when they would go to a film or something, and then they would come back to it, and they wouldn't know what the story is.
So all these reasons together is why the show had to change.
Remember Michael Loman? He was the executive producer of the show from 1993 until 2002. He was the main man that wanted the show to be for younger kids, and not older kids. He thought there were too many characters, and that the show was too complicated for today's audience. The stuff he took off before anything else was the rock parodies like Born To Add, Co-Operation, and everything with Little Chrissy. He thought there was too much rock and roll on the show, so he wanted to take some of it off.
Are you wondering where I'm getting this? Chris Cerf told me himself! Everyone says that's just a rumor. Nobody else has heard that, or even believes it. I think it's because that stuff is too old for the show today. See, the audience of the show has gotten younger and younger over the years. What I think happened was, they came out with Barney, which was at the time, younger than Sesame Street, and because of that, SS's audience was getting younger as well, so they had to make the show seem that way.
Also, the kids that are watching don't care how often the shows are repeated. They may not even realize it. Because the audience is so young today, well, 130 shows is way too many. Kids don't like variety, they like repetition. This is probably why everyday segments like Elmo's World have been so successful. And because that was such a success, they added more of them, like Journey to Ernie.
The old format wasn't working anymore because the kids of today are actually smart enough to take the remote and change the channel when they would go to a film or something, and then they would come back to it, and they wouldn't know what the story is.
So all these reasons together is why the show had to change.
