Sesame Workshop Sends Bea’s Block to Sky

Sky Kids has picked up Sesame Workshop’s new preschool series Bea’s Block to air on all of its platforms in the U.K. and Ireland.

The series follows 5-year-old Bea and her two best friends, who are all shaped like wooden blocks, as they zip, stack and hop on the way to help those in their neighborhood. It is a product of Sesame Workshop’s content partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery.

A Productions developed the animation and design look of Bea’s Block. The studio, based in Bristol, has also animated several Sesame Street specials: Sesame Street The Nutcracker, The Monster at the End of This Story and Furry Friends Forever: Elmo Gets a Puppy.

Bea’s Block airs at 9 a.m. in the U.K., with a repeated airing at 4:30 p.m.

“Bea’s Block models kindness through friendship by showing how to be empathetic, compassionate and respectful to others,” said Kay Wilson Stallings, Sesame Workshop’s executive VP of chief creative development and production officer. “Bea and her friends always want to help, but it can take a little time to find the best way how. The series was created with the educational approach and heart you’ve come to expect from the maker of Sesame Street.”