Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street, is requesting that the Obama campaign take down a new adportraying Mitt Romney as more concerned with Big Bird than Wall Street ...

Caroll Spinney, the longtime "Sesame Street" puppeteer who played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, died Sunday at age 85, Sesame Workshop confirmed. Watch Party Newsletter Best TV shows of 2025 📺 ...

Sesame Workshop asked President Obama's campaign to take down an anti-Mitt Romney ad featuring Big Bird. Since the first presidential debate, Obama has used a remark Romney made about the Sesame ...

Big Bird helped me find my purpose," Spinney said in a statement from the Sesame Workshop. "Even as I step down from my roles, I feel I will always be Big Bird. And even Oscar, once in a while!" ...

Indeed, Big Bird — that towering, yellow-feathered 6-year-old — has been calling Sesame Street home for four decades, ever since the show premiered on Nov. 10, 1969.

The New York-based Sesame Workshop was not pleased this week with a Halloween costume now on the market, depicting Big Bird in a "sexy" women's outfit. CBS News New York: Free 24/7 News; ...

In 2015, Sesame Street’s parent non-profit, Sesame Workshop, signed a five-year funding agreement with the cable entertainment giant that gives HBO exclusive rights to new episodes. PBS gets the ...

Sesame Street is headed for a detour, but the path forward isn’t exactly clear. The long-running children’s show, which first introduced young audiences to Big Bird, Bert and Ernie in 1969, is ...

"Sesame Street" has stepped in to call for a stop to a snarky new Obama ad that invokes Big Bird in ridiculing Mitt Romney's call to end federal funding of PBS.

Big Bird reads to Connor Scott and Tiffany Jiao during a taping of Sesame Street in New York, April 10, 2008. Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who has played Big Bird on "Sesame Street" is retiring ...

Big Bird has found himself in the middle of the 2012 election, but it turns out the “Sesame Street” star is a registered Democrat. Well – the human being behind Big Bird is, anywa… ...

ABU DHABI — Sesame Workshop CEO Melvin Ming addressed the third annual Abu Dhabi Media Summit here Wednesday via a satellite feed from New York amid the continuing Big Bird controversy. He was ...