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Just as HBO Max pulled The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo from its service, Sesame Workshop   announced fans in Israel will be getting their own "star studded" version. Israel is now the first country to produce a local version of The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo utilizing their own local Muppets and celebrities.  Moishe Oofnik, Oscar the Grouch’s Israeli cousin from the long-running Israeli Sesame Street  adaptation Rechov Sumsum , will recur as Elmo’s sidekick instead of the Cookie Minster in the US version.  Olympic gold medalist Linoy Ashram Among the guests are celebrity chef  Israel Aharoni,  actors Amir Shurush and Guri Alfi, Olympic gold medalist Linoy Ashram, and Singer/ songwriter Kobi Oz. T he Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo j oins Rehov Sumsum and Shalom Sesame in Israel's long line of Sesame co-productions.  Singer/ songwriter Kobi Oz Israel's  14-episode The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo   adaptation is  set to prem...

According to Variety ,  HBO Max will remove 36 titles from its service as early as this week including a few Sesame Workshop titles. The list includes the Sesame Workshop HBO Max Originals Esme & Roy , The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo and an unspecified “select group of Sesame Street specials. A spokesperson for HBO Max attributed the decision to the pending merge of the platform with Discovery+, which is also owned by Warner Bros. Discovery . “As we work toward bringing our content catalogs together under one platform, we will be making changes to the content offering available on both HBO Max and discovery+,” HBO Max’s statement reads. “That will include the removal of some content from both platforms.” It is currently unclear whether they will be made available on DVD or rental services, or if their removal will result in them becoming completely inaccessible.