Sesame Workshop (1996-present)

Sesame Workshop (SW), originally known as the Children's Television Workshop (CTW), is an American nonprofit organization and an educational children’s television series that has been responsible for the production of several educational children's programs—including its first and best-known, Sesame Street—that have been televised internationally. Television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and foundation executive Lloyd Morrisett developed the idea to form an organization to produce Sesame Street, a television series that would help children, especially those from low-income families, prepare for school. They spent two years, from 1966 to 1968, researching, developing, and raising money for the new series. Cooney was named as the Workshop's first executive director, which was termed "one of the most important television developments of the decade."

Bad Qualities

 * 1) They keep introducing pointless new Muppets (despite their positives on the Muppet Wiki) to Sesame Street doing drastic changes to the show's street set and format, although it is debatable.
 * 2) * Despite their positives on the Muppet Wiki, whenever new recurring Muppets are introduced to Sesame Street nowadays, they sometimes come off as annoying, sentimental, dull, bland, stupid, idiotic, or obnoxious.
 * 3) They have a lack of care for their non-Sesame properties and they like to pretend that some of the shows they made don't exist.
 * 4) *The Sagwa franchise went dormant after the show's cancellation, due to a lack of merchandise as well as PBS not being able to compete with news coverage during the 9/11 attacks.
 * 5) *Barely anything has been done with Dragon Tales since it was cancelled in 2005 and taken off the air in 2010. With Sony Pictures Television co-owning the rights to the series and music rights issues, it is unlikely to ever see an official re-release.
 * 6) *Though they revived The Electric Company in 2009, it was cancelled in 2011 and the franchise has gone dormant since.
 * 7) **The original 1971 series is hard to come across, as there are almost no full episodes of the series on YouTube and only 40 episodes were released on DVD.
 * 8) *They rarely give the older seasons of Sesame Street any attention apart from releasing edited versions of episodes on HBO Max and uploading sketches from the seasons on YouTube. This has caused the newer seasons to gain more recognition among children.
 * 9) Nothing has been heard about Square One TV since Math Talk was cancelled. It is also unavailable for streaming or on DVD.
 * 10) Starting in 1998, they began accepting corporate sponsors to raise funds for Sesame Street and other projects on PBS airings. While it was somewhat justified to increase funding for multiple projects alongside Sesame Street as well as their new network, Noggin, it still defeats the purpose of being a non-profit organization by ending in 2015.
 * 11) By 2016, they fired the actors who played Bob, Gordon, Luis, Susan, Maria, Gina, etc. from Sesame Street (although only Bob, Gordon and Luis actually got fired, while Susan, Maria, Gina, Leela, Miles, Gabi, etc. mostly chose to retire themselves) for no apparent reason. Most of them did return in the 50th Anniversary Special, but it feels like nowadays that they're all completely retconned out the show like they never even existed.
 * 12) In 2012, despite his false sexual allegations later being cleared out, they had Kevin Clash resign from Sesame Street no matter what—even if it was his decision to resign from the show.
 * 13) Nowadays, they work with Autism Speaks, an organization that used to dehumanize people with autism. They dropped the cure statement in 2016.
 * 14) * Also, they now work with Global Tech Link, and organization that monopolizes, and and exploits families dealing with incarceration.
 * 15) They are producing an upcoming animated theatrical feature film based on Sesame Street that is scheduled for release on September 2022, even though they are the copyright holders and they only own the copyright.

Good Qualities

 * 1) They still make some good shows like Dragon Tales, Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat, The Electric Company (both the 1971 and 2009 versions), Square One TV, Tiny Planets (co-produced with Pepper's Ghost Productions Ltd.), and Ghostwriter.
 * 2) * Sesame Street is still the most-watched preschool TV show.
 * 3) In fact, Sesame Workshop, still becomes representative to its activities beyond television, since the Children's Television Workshop was renamed to Sesame Workshop in 2000.
 * 4) The company is still faithful to Mh:besttvshows:Sesame Street, and still helps children get "smarter, stronger and kinder."