The upcoming Warner Premiere and DC Entertainment release of The Dark Knight Returns has been a long time coming, though I believe you heard about it here first. Frank Miller and Klaus Janson’s comic has been divided into two films for this adaptation, the first of which will be released later this year, the second…
Phonogram: The Singles Club, the second volume of the series from Image, by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, has now hit digital. The first issue is free, downloadable on ComiXology, but we also took this opprtunity to make it available free on Bleeding Cool as well, below. Open publication – Free publishing – More bleedingcool…
Joseph Glass writes for Bleeding Cool; So, this Sunday just gone, a question was asked at Kapow Comic Con in London; a convention that aims to be as big as the US conventions, but over in sunny old Blighty (though I did notice the sun pretty much eluded us this year). It’s a good show,…
At Kapow in London, during the Avengers Vs X-Men panel with Kieron Gillen, CB Cebulski and Joe Quesada, they showed off some upcoming Avengers Vs X-Men pages… one of which seems to show a certain Professor X returning for issue 6… We also got a teaser that Illyana and Black Widow will star in an…
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Brian Henson has been working on the pilot for a new, puppet-led entertainment show for the BBC, currently with the working title No Strings Attached. While the show is expected to be largely like a talk show with a puppet host, there’s also expected to be sketches and games with a range of other characters. If I were you, I’d put money on me being in the audience too though I’m not sure the BBC would consider that a key part of the format.
Note that I’m stressing puppets with a P, and not mentioning the M word. Though the Henson style has gone unbowed, the Muppet characters don’t “belong” to The Jim Henson Company any longer, and now reside with Disney.
But, as Kermit says in his recent movie:
You know what’s important isn’t this building or name, it’s each other. So I say fine, let’s just start from the bottom and work our way back up to the top. Let’s all walk out through these doors with our heads held up high, as a family because that’s what we are.
That felt like a call of support to Brian and Lisa Henson when I heard it in the film, and it seems very appropriate now.
Broadcast say that the host “may” be modelled on a recognisable face, without revealing which one; and that they will interview real life celebrities in a “quite cheeky and brash” way, with humour designed to appeal across all ages. They add that, in theory, the show will air at teatime on Saturday.
ie. before Doctor Who.
ie. hellsyeahdoublebill.
As yet, it seems that the show is far from locked down, with the BBC’s “Veronica Martin” figure, Karl Warner, saying:
The Muppets were a massive phenomenon and nobody seems to have been developing anything in this area for a long time. The Henson Company has shown us some puppets, and their versatility is very exciting, but we are still only in talks at the moment.
If Brian Henson is reading this, I just want to volunteer my services in kidnapping Jack Black to help ease the show’s way to the airwaves.
Come on BBC. Give The Hensons this chance. I really don’t think they’ll let you down.
Yesterday, Fox News decided to suggest that because DC have plans to reintroduce one of their iconic characters to the New 52 as a gay man, that meant that Superman might be gay. Today, the closest (and I originally mispelt that as “closet”) thing the UK has to Fox News, the Daily Mail does the…
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Just as DC Comics is turning the headlines purple with the news at Kapow that a previously established character would be rebooted as a gay person, so Marvel Comics announced they have their own headlines in mind. Tune into ABC at 11a/10a E/C tomorrow as the hosts of ABC’s The View exclusively reveal a major…
