There is a new way to get to Sesame Street: through HBO

The way to Sesame Street has been the same for 45 years. But now fans will be given two sets of directions: one towards PBS and one towards HBO.

The premium cable channel and producers of “Sesame Street”, the Sesame Workshop, announced they that have struck up a five-year contract with will allow the show to be aired on its network, according to ABC News.

HBO will now offer the next five seasons of the series on all of their platforms including their traditional one and HBO GO and HBO On Demand.

The deal will allow Sesame Workshop to produce close to double the amount of content than that of previous seasons on PBS alone.

Here’s the way it will work. All new episodes will go straight to HBO first. PBS will then “rerun” the shows on a nine month delay. But since the current season of “Sesame Street” is airing until then, there will be no lapse for PBS viewers.

“Our new partnership with HBO represents a true winning public-private partnership model,” said Jeffrey D. Dunn, Sesame Workshop’s CEO. He added that the relationship will provide his organization with the “critical funding” in order to continue making the show and airing it on PBS.

The organization will also be creating a Muppets spinoff series as well as new original educational shows for kids.

to continue producing the show and airing it on PBS, its home for 45 years.

Joan Ganz Cooney, co-founder of the series, said she has “long admired the creative work of HBO and can’t think of a better partner to continue the quality of ‘Sesame Street’s’ programming.”

She also noted the huge changes in the way children take-in videos as well as the dramatic changes in the economics of the kids’ TV business. Due to these changes, it is time that PBS jump on board in order to adapt and continue in the business.

One of the newer key players in children’s programming has been competitors like Amazon and Netflix that are also making their own original shows with access to streaming them on demand.