"I was genuinely sad having to say goodbye to Motherland. There's such a fondness for that show and those characters. So it was a real thrill to get to pick up the further adventures of Amanda and ...

Julia, who was introduced last year as a digital character in Sesame Workshop ... babysit and by reflecting on her own experiences as a mother with a child who has autism.

Another added: 'Yeh I'm missing Julia.' A third chimed in ... seeing how the complexity of Amanda's character has developed; the relationship with her mother, life as a single parent and her ...