FURRY, FEATHERY, FUNNY AND NOW… 40 YEARS OLD

KNCT and Planetarium celebrates Sesame Street's 40th birthday

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Killeen, TX) – Sesame Street, the world's largest informal children's educator, celebrates its 40th birthday on November 10 (the exact day the series debuted on television four decades ago) with a new season on PBS Kids. The new season is everything you love about Sesame Street and more: new block format, new show open, new nature curriculum and special guest First Lady Michelle Obama.

 

To help celebrate its 40th birthday, KNCT and the Mayborn Planetarium and Space Theater, located on the campus of Central Texas College, will host a celebration with a special showing of “One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure on November 10. The unique planetarium show follows Sesame Street 's Big Bird and Elmo as they explore the night sky with Hu Hu Zhu, a muppet from Zhima Jie, the Chinese co-production of Sesame Street . Together, they take an imaginary trip from Sesame Street to the moon, where they discover how different it is from Earth. The show is a brilliant spectacle of light and color as the furry friends watch the stars twinkle over the same Sesame Street . It aims to nurture children's natural sense of wonder about the night sky.

 

Show times are 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets are $6 for adults and $5 for children under 12. Planetarium members will be admitted free. Everyone in attendance will receive a special Sesame Street souvenir. Visit www.knct.org or www.starsatnight.org for more information.

Season 40 of Sesame Street is funded in part by a grant through the Public Broadcasting Service and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television viewers.  Sesame Street is underwritten in part locally by Dr. Omar Homsi, Killeen Pediatric Care Clinic; and nationally by the Beaches Family Resorts, McDonald's Corporation, Earth's Best, PNC and The Good Egg Project.