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
Rockne S. O'Bannon Rockne S. O'Bannon Rockne S. O'Bannon is an American television writer, screenwriter and producer. O'Bannon has created five original television series ("Farscape", "seaQuest", "Defiance", "Cult", and "Alien Nation"). O'Bannon made his writing debut selling spec material to NBC's "Amazing Stories" (1985) and CBS's "The Twilight Zone" (1985), but first garnered critical attention for his film "Alien Nation" (1988) and its subsequent spinoff television show. His next notable achievement was his original series "seaQuest DSV" (1993) which ran for three seasons. O'Bannon's most critically acclaimed success was the space epic "Farscape" on The Sci-Fi Channel (1999–2003) which ran for four seasons