History of Sesame Street including changing its traditional magazine format to a narrative format. Because of the popularity of the Muppet Elmo, the show incorporated a popular segment known as "Elmo's World". "Sesame Street" has won eight Grammys and over a hundred Emmys in its history—more than any other children's show. In the late 1960s, 97% of all American households owned a television set, and preschool children watched an average of 27 hours of television per week; programs created for them were widely criticized for being too violent and for reflecting commercial values. Producer Joan Ganz Cooney called children's programming a "wasteland", and she
S&S Productions Forever", a feature film spinoff of "Red Green", but remains focused on television rather than film production. S&S Productions S&S Productions is a Canadian television production company. The firm grew out of "Smith & Smith", a sketch comedy series starring the married comedy duo of Steve and Morag Smith, and also produced their subsequent series "Me & Max", "The Comedy Mill" and "The Red Green Show". The firm was established by the Smiths, along with Steve Smith's brother David as an additional partner. Following the success of "The Red Green Show" in the early 1990s, the firm branched out to