Sesame Workshop is an American non-profit organization which produces educational children's programs. Their most famous program, as evident by their name, is Sesame Street.

The company was founded in 1968 as the Children's Television Workshop (CTW). Joan Ganz Cooney, a television producer, and Lloyd Morriset, a foundation executive, thought of the idea of creating a company to produce Sesame Street, a television series intended to help children get ready for school. The Children's Television Workshop was that company, and Joan Ganz Cooney was named its first executive director. The company changed to its current name in 2000.

While often associated with PBS, in 1999, the Workshop made a deal with MTV Networks (the owners of Nickelodeon) to launch an educational channel called Noggin. They produced many original shows for Noggin, including Out There (2003), Sponk! and Play With Me Sesame. The Workshop sold its stake in the Noggin channel in late 2002, but it continued to produce new Noggin shows (like The Upside Down Show in 2006). In 2005, Sesame Workshop made a deal with PBS, HiT Entertainment and Comcast to launch a 24-hour preschool channel called Sprout (now known as Universal Kids). Sesame Workshop divested its stake in Sprout in December 2012, a year after Comcast purchased NBCUniversal. More recently, the company has become associated with Warner Bros. Discovery, beginning with the move of Sesame Street to HBO in the mid-2010s; the company has subsequently begun to produce more content for HBO Max and Cartoonito.

Television series produced by Sesame Workshop:

• 3-2-1 Contact
• Bea's Block
• The Best of Families
• Big Bag
• Cro (with Film Roman)
• Dragon Tales (with Sony Pictures Television)
• The Electric Company (1971)
  • The Electric Company (2009)
• Encyclopedia (with HBO; one of their few pre-1990s U.S. shows that didn't air on PBS)
• Esme & Roy (with Nelvana)
• Feeling Good
• Ghostwriter
  • Ghostwriter (2019)
• Helpsters
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1979)
• Out There (2003) (for Noggin)
• Panwapa (with The Merrill Lynch Foundation)
• Pinky Dinky Doo
• Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (with CinéGroupe)
• Sesame Street franchise
  • Sesame Street
  • The Furchester Hotel
  • The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo
  • Mecha Builders
  • Play With Me Sesame (for Noggin)
  • Plaza Sésamo (Latin American version of Sesame Street)
  • Sesamstraat (Dutch version of Sesame Street)
  • Takalani Sesame (South African version of Sesame Street)
  • Sesamstraße (German version of Sesame Street)
• Sponk! (for Noggin)
• Square One TV
• Tiny Planets (with Pepper's Ghost Productions)
• The Upside Down Show (for Noggin)

Tropes related to Sesame Workshop:

• Animated Adaptation: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1979) is based on the first (in publishing order) book in the The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis. Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat is based on the book The Chinese Siamese Cat by Amy Tan, and illustrated by Gretchen Schields. Pinky Dinky Doo is based on a series of books of the same name by Jim Jinkins.
• Creator's Oddball: Feeling Good and The Best of Families were the Workshop's only programs aimed at adults. The latter only lasted for six or seven episodes and helped the Workshop decide to emphasize children's programs only.