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All Of Amazon’s Original Pilots Are Online – Including The Onion, Alpha House With Bill Murray And More

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Brendon Connelly

So far, Zombieland has garnered the most column inches but as I look at the roster of available shows, its a couple of the others that seem to twinkle the most.

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BC Mag #2: Henson Now And Then

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Mark Seifert

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Brendon Connelly For Jim Henson fans, 2013 will be their Rainbow Connection, as all three of Henson’s most treasured worlds will be returning. The Muppets will be up-ending Europe for their new feature film, the …

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JIm Henson’s Doozers – Fraggle Rock Spinoff For 2014 Seen In The Wild

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Rich Johnston

By “in the wild” we mean in the land of the silly creatures.

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Today Is Both Jim Henson And Steve Whitmire’s Birthdays

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Some videos to celebrate.

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Video: Fraggles Infest The New Ben Folds Five Promo

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Also featuring Rob Corddry and.. a surprise guest singer, right at the end.

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Looks Like The Muppets Are Headed To The Stage

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Tonight, The Muppets are performing two shows at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival, and man-oh-man, I wish I could be there (and, interestingly, it’s a show apparently not appropriate for kids under the age of 12). But I don’t think …

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A Sesame Street Feature Film Is Coming. Here’s How To Do It Right

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Another of Jim Henson‘s great contributions to TV is Sesame Street, his partnership with (what was then) The Children’s Television Workshop. A quite brilliant and ingenious show, it mixes a live-action neighbourhood, peopled with both humans and Muppets, with a …

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Rango Talents Tapped To Write Fraggle Rock Movie

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Next year will be the 30th anniversary of Fraggle Rock, perhaps the most ambitious of Jim Henson’s projects. I’d always loved the show when I was young, but watching it again as an adult, and being able to watch lots …

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It Was 22 Years Ago Today That Jim Henson Passed Away

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

I will let The Muppets pay tribute to Jim Henson. This video couldn’t really be better.

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Now Really Is The Time To Buy Farscape: The Complete Series

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

If you don’t know Farscape, you probably don’t know why so many got excited about Ben Browder being cast in the new run of Doctor Who. He’s the star of the show, a NASA test pilot who ends up passing …

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Lobo Movie Back On The Blocks – Brad Peyton Tapped To Direct

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Joel Silver‘s last choice for a director to bring DC Comics’ Lemmy-tinged bounty hunter Lobo to the big screen was Guy Ritchie, but Sherlock Holmes, pub running and hair washing seemed to get in the way, and before long, he …

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VIDEO: The Muppets Reunited With Their Sesame Street Cousins At Carnegie Hall This Weekend

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

They’re all Muppets, but they’ve got different lawyers. On the one hand (so to speak) there’s Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie and all those chaps who just got a new movie. On the other hand, there’s the guys who live down on …

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Breast Feeding Has Been Gone From Sesame Street Too Long – 5000 Sign Petition To Bring It Back

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Do you remember seeing breast feeding on Sesame Street? Let me jog your memory with a few videos.

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Will We Get A Puppet President For 2012?

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Rich Johnston

From Jim Henson Company and Nerdist. A very modern American Presidential candidate, where it’s very clear who is pulling the screens.

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Jim Henson’s Incomplete Animated Film, Alexander The Grape

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

In 1964, Jim Henson‘s Oscar-nominated short film Time Piece used a wide range of unusual and borderline experimental techniques including, for a moment, some cut-out animation. A year later, he decided to try and make a film entirely out of …

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Jim Henson’s Tale Of Sand – A Beautiful-Sad Image, And Exclusive Release Details

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

The last complete, unproduced work by Jim Henson was a screenplay for a feature film, co-written by his regular collaborator, Jerry Juhl. A Tale of Sand was written as a kind of existential chase movie, full of unexpected surprises, surreal …

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20 Page Preview: Jim Henson’s Tale Of Sand

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Archaia have released a preview of Tale of Sand, an original graphic novel adaptation by Ramón Perez of an unproduced screenplay by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl. A Tale of Sand follows scruffy everyman Mac, who wakes up in an …

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Jim Henson Gets An Interactive Google Doodle On What Would Have Been His 75th Birthday

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

As I’m in England, I’m also in the wee small hours of  Saturday. But in some of the world, it’s still Friday September 24th, 2011. It’s the 75th anniversary of the birth of the late, great Muppet master, Jim Henson. …

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