Posts with tag Henson Company
Posted Sep 8th 2008 11:03AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
It looks like the Muppets
will be back again for Christmas. The NBC television special will star Whoopi Goldberg, "The Sopranos" alums Tony Sirico and Steve Schirripa, "Harry Potter" regular Richard Griffiths and Madison Pettis as well as your favorite cast of colorful characters created by Jim Henson.
I'm a huge fan of the Muppets, but the passing of Jim Henson did somehow lessen the franchise. The stuff they've produced since has been hit-and-miss. I liked
Muppets Tonight and
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, but most of the other stuff (especially the theatrical films) have fallen flat.
I do hope that
Jason Segal and Nicholas Stoller will be able to breathe new life into the franchise. I did enjoy
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (particularly the puppet musical), but I'm not sure how well that translates to the Muppets. My fingers are crossed.
How dare Jim Henson leave us all like this! I'm sorry. I still haven't gotten over it.
Posted Nov 13th 2006 8:32AM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, Industry, Web, Pickups and Renewals
A few months ago,
we
brought you news of the Jim Henson Company's
late night television project and partnership with TBS.
More news has come to light regarding this and two other projects in development over at Henson headquarters in Hollywood.
On November 20th, TBS will be airing a taped performance of the Henson gang performing improvised, uncensored comedy at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival. This isn't the warm and wacky Muppet comedy of yore.
Puppet Up! Uncensored! is blue comedy developed by a whole new team of writers and performers looking to bring a fresh voice and renewed primetime supremacy to the Henson name. In addition to the improv performance, TBS has ordered up 30 episodes of
Uncensored for its forthcoming broadband channel and remains in negotiations over the semi-improvised late night talk show project.
Continue reading Henson company aims for puppet primetime
Posted Oct 20th 2006 8:02PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: HBO, Premium Cable, Industry, TV on the Bigscreen, OpEd, Children
Every child of the '80s that had HBO shares an idelible memory from that time period... Shannon Tweed's
breasts from
Hot Dog: The Movie. Somewhat less indelible, but pretty memorable in its own right, was the Jim Henson series
Fraggle Rock. Now
comes word from the folks at the Henson Company that a full-length feature film version is in the works, written and executive produced by none other than Ahmet Zappa.
In the movie, Gobo, Wembley, Mokey, Boober and Red finally leave the underground world of Fraggle Rock and go into what the Hensons call "outer space", otherwise known as the outside world. In fact, they'll actually interact with (gulp) human beings (what are the odds that one of them is going to be Kelly Ripa?). Zappa is involved to not only help write the screenplay, but the music for the movie, as well. No word on a title or release date just yet.
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