Whatever you consider Sesame Street’s Count, man or monster, he’s got a simple mission: to count things. It is his drive, his base need, the source of his delightful full name: Count Von Count. Being ...

As a child, Riley LeBon was terrified of Count von Count on “Sesame Street.” Last week, the now-third-year University of Virginia student helped puppeteer the numbers-obsessed vampire with Muppet ...

Sesame Street is using Count von Count to change that. “Sesame Street” in the past year has tackled everything from foster care to substance abuse. Now its latest effort is trying to help ...

The segment Greene cited wasn’t aired; a local station mistakenly uploaded it to PBS’ site, where it stayed for two months ...

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Fans of the Muppets will be able to see some of these latest additions to the collection in December in a new exhibition on puppetry (The Count ... grew up on ‘Sesame Street,’ and Jim Henson ...

For decades, shows like Sesame Street were, in addition to being often the only thing available, were considered safe havens for children—wholesome, educational programming that helped ...