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___MASK51___ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom . It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and ___MASK14___ to the west . The Irish Sea lies northwest of ___MASK51___ and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest . ___MASK51___ is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south . The country covers five - eighths of the island of Great Britain ( which lies in the North Atlantic ) in its centre and south ; and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly , and the Isle of Wight . Joan Ganz Cooney ( born Joan Ganz ; November 30 , 1929 ) is an American television producer . She is one of the founders of the Sesame Workshop ( originally " Children ' s Television Workshop " or CTW ), the organization famous for the creation of the children ' s television show " Sesame Street ", which was also co - created by her . Cooney grew up in ___MASK79___ , ___MASK23___ and earned a B . A . degree in education from the University of ___MASK23___ in 1951 . After working for the State Department in ___MASK20___ , D . C . and as a journalist in ___MASK79___ , she worked as a publicist for television and production companies in ___MASK11___ . In 1961 , she became interested in working for educational television , and became a documentary producer for New York ' s first educational TV station WNET ( Channel 13 ). Many of the programs she produced won local Emmys . CityKids is a television series that aired late Saturday Mornings on ABC from 1993 to 1994 . The show consists primarily of live action performances , interspersed with Muppet segments , courtesy of Jim Henson Productions . These Muppets are composed of original characters designed specifically for the show , not ones taken from Sesame Street or The Muppet Show . These original characters often serve as the Greek chorus for the show , commenting on the situations of the human characters , but not actually interacting with them . Unlike most shows airing on ABC Saturday Mornings and produced by the Jim Henson Company at the time , CityKids was primarily targeted to a teenage audience , not to mention an urban one . However , the show failed to generate desirable ratings from any demographic , especially the teenage one , and the show was cancelled by ABC after one season . The show ' s main theme song was composed by Malik Yoba & Raliegh J Neal II , both also composed other songs for the series and served as Musical Creative Supervisor for the show . Borehamwood ( originally spelt Boreham Wood ), is a town in southern ___MASK24___ . It is an outlying suburb of London , situated from Charing Cross . Borehamwood has a population of 31 , 065 , and is within the civil parish of Elstree and Borehamwood and the London commuter belt . There is one weekly newspaper , the " Borehamwood and Elstree Times ". The town is perhaps most well known for its film and TV studios , commonly known as Elstree Studios , hence the association with Elstree . Sesame Street is a long - running American children ' s television series , produced by Sesame Workshop ( formerly known as the Children ' s Television Workshop ) and created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett . The program is known for its educational content , and images communicated through the use of Jim Henson ' s Muppets , animation , short films , humor , and cultural references . The series premiered on November 10 , 1969 , to positive reviews , some controversy , and high viewership ; it has aired on the U . S .' s national public television provider ( PBS ) since its debut , with its first run moving to premium channel HBO on January 16 , 2016 . The Muppet Show is a family - oriented comedy - variety television series that was produced by puppeteer Jim Henson and features The Muppets . After two pilot episodes produced in 1974 and 1975 failed to get the attention of network executives in the United States , Lew Grade approached Henson to produce the programme in the ___MASK77___ for ATV , the ( then ) ITV franchise in the English Midlands . The show lasted for five series consisting of 120 episodes which were first broadcast in Britain between 5 September 1976 and 15 March 1981 on ATV and syndicated the remaining ITV franchises around the ___MASK77___ . The programmes were recorded at ATV ' s Elstree Studios in Borehamwood , ___MASK51___ . James Maury " Jim " Henson ( September 24 , 1936  May 16 , 1990 ) was an American puppeteer , artist , cartoonist , inventor , screenwriter , film director and producer who achieved international fame as the creator of the Muppets . Born in Greenville , Mississippi , and raised in Leland , Mississippi , and Hyattsville , ___MASK64___ , Henson began developing puppets while attending high school . While he was a freshman at the University of ___MASK64___ , College Park , he created " Sam and Friends ", a five - minute sketch - comedy puppet show that appeared on television . After graduating from the University of ___MASK64___ with a degree in home economics , he produced coffee advertisements and developed some experimental films . Feeling the need for more creative output , Henson founded Muppets Inc . in 1958 ( which would later become the Jim Henson Company ). A chorus (" khoros "), in the context of Ancient Greek tragedy , comedy , and satyr plays , is a homogeneous , non - individualised group of performers , who comment with a collective voice on the dramatic action . The chorus consisted of between 12 and 50 players , who variously danced , sang or spoke their lines in unison and sometimes wore masks . Ancient Greek includes the forms of Greek used in ancient ___MASK26___ and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD . It is often roughly divided into the Archaic period ( 9th to 6th centuries BC ), Classical period ( 5th and 4th centuries BC ), and Hellenistic period ( 3rd century BC to the 6th century AD ). It is antedated in the second millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek .