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'Sesame Street' Ready to Return to China

11:31 PM PST 12/14/2010 by Jonathan Landreth

After a 13-year absence, Big Bird strides back onto Chinese TV screens.

BEIJING -- Twenty-seven years after Big Bird first landed in China and 13 years since the U.S. non-profit Sesame Workshop had a presence on Chinese TV, a short, localized, Mandarin-language version of its flagship show Sesame Street will premiere in Shanghai on Dec. 22.

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