Faith & Family News: 'Peppa' on Netflix, CREDO, '7th Heaven' Reboot

In this month's faith & family media news: Peppa Pig joins Sesame Street at Netflix, and gets a new game; a faith-based streaming service launches; and a 7th Heaven reboot begins development at CBS Studios.

Peppa, Cookie Monster & the Big Red N

Long a staple of PBS (where it still airs), Sesame Street found a new home on cable/streaming a while ago. Last December, though, Warner Bros. Discovery chose not to renew its license for new episodes of the kids' staple.

From 2016 to 2020, episodes premiered on HBO. After that, a new deal moved them to streamer HBO Max, which became Max (and recently went back to HBO Max).

With HBO Max pivoting away from children's programming, Netflix struck a deal with producer Sesame Workshop.

From Deadline.com on May 19, 2025:

Sesame Street has a new streaming home. Netflix has picked up the children’s series, which will make its debut on the streamer later this year with an all-new, reimagined 56th season — plus 90 hours of previous episodes — available to audiences worldwide. ...

The new episodes, which will now each center on one 11-minute story, will be available same day-and-date in the U.S. on PBS stations and PBS KIDS digital platforms, maintaining U.S. kids’ free access to early learning, which Sesame Street is all about. That is a departure from Netflix’s typical push for exclusivity unless a second window on a library title is involved.

In addition to format changes, the new season will feature the return of fan-favorite segments like Elmo’s World and Cookie Monster’s Foodie Truck.

Now, the British-produced Peppa Pig is also coming to Netflix.

From Deadline.com, also on May 19, 2025:

After the streaming giant announced a deal for the children’s TV staple earlier Monday, it followed up with the news that new episodes of Peppa Pig will stream on Netflix. The title character will also anchor a new mobile game, World of Peppa Pig, and a Sesame Street game is now in the works as Netflix ramps up in the kids gaming sector.

In a blog post, Netflix said World of Peppa Pig is an umbrella for a collection of mini-games and videos designed around puzzle-solving, memory, counting, object recognition, and matching patterns. The games and videos are aimed at teaching kids key life skills. Plus, “adjustable difficulty levels make it easy to tailor the game’s challenges to your tot,” Netflix noted.

Head to Netflix's blog for more info on the game, and below find the game trailer.

Tune Into CREDO

On May 28, faith-based streaming service CREDO launched with an exclusive online release.

From Aleteia:

A new streaming service dedicated to faith-driven content will launch globally on May 28, with its debut anchored by the exclusive online release of Carlo Acutis: Roadmap to Reality. The documentary, which became the year’s top-grossing faith-based film during its U.S. theatrical run, will be available on CREDO’s à la carte platform, without a subscription model.

CREDO was developed by Tim Moriarty, founder and CEO of Castletown Media, who describes the platform as a curated space for spiritually grounded, artistically produced films. The launch marks a new approach to Catholic media distribution, emphasizing independent production and viewer choice. Rather than offering monthly plans, CREDO will allow users to rent or purchase titles individually.

“Catholic audiences shouldn’t have to settle for anything less than artistic excellence,” Moriarty said in a press release. “With CREDO, rigorous curation meets state-of-the-art streaming.”

Click here to check out CREDO, and below find a look at its premiere offering:

7th Heaven Returns to Earth

Despite being less buzzworthy than other shows on The WB -- such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed and Dawson's Creek -- 7th Heaven anchored the network for 10 seasons, and then one more season on The CW.

The family drama about a Protestant minister father, his wife and their seven children remained a solid ratings performer for its entire run.

Now, work has reportedly begun on a new version of the show at CBS Studios, with original cast member Jessica Biel as one of the executive producers. Another is DeVon Franklin, know for such faith-based films as Miracles From Heaven, Heaven Is for Real, The Star and Breakthrough.

From Variety:

Sources say that the new show would focus on a diverse family, and that none of the original cast members would appear. As the project is still in the very early stages, deals are still being worked out and no network or streamer is attached.

Reps for CBS Studios did not immediately respond to Variety‘s request for comment.

Image: Netflix

Kate O’Hare, a longtime entertainment journalist, is Social Media Content Manager and Blog Editor at Family Theater Productions.