Sisimpur


Sisimpur is the Bangladeshi version of the children's television series Sesame Street. The show aims to make learning enjoyable for children.
Local production designers localized the backdrop for the show by building a set featuring a rural street with a banyan tree and tea and sweet shops.
The first season of the series featured 26 episodes, and a second roster of 36 episodes was in production as of 9 February 2001. A third season went into production April 2007 while production of the fifth season is underway. The series airs four times a week on Bangladesh Television. The program airs on BTV at 9:05 am on Friday, with repeats on Saturday at 2:15 pm, Wednesday and Thursday at 5:05 pm. Sisimpur started airing on children’s channel Duronto TV on July 14, 2019.
USAID has committed US$7 million in funding over the first three years. It is Bangladesh's first children's educational program and was expected to be seen by 4 million children in its first two years.
The creation of Sisimpur was described in detail in the 2005 documentary The World According to Sesame Street.

Characters

The show has no full-body puppet character and, thus, no equivalent to Big Bird.

Human characters