Happy birthday, "Sesame Street." You are 40 years old now, just a year younger than Mickey Mouse was the year you arrived on television - and he was semi-retired by then, while you still report to ...

Parente also believes that "Sesame Street" survives and thrives because it continually reinvents itself, adding topics and altering formats to reflect changing times. Tuesday's 40th-season opener, for ...

That's what he decides on the "Sesame Street" season opener. A rapping real-estate agent pitches him on migrating to a new habitat ("habitat," the episode's "Word on the Street"). After sizing up a ...