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Sesame Street Launches Its First Comic With Six Issues… And A Hardcover?

  Sesame Street: I Is For Imagination launches as a comic book from Ape Entertainment in April. As well as five regular covers at $3.99, there’s a chase cover for every retailer who orders all 5 other covers, a 1 …

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Jerry Nelson, Muppeteer – 1934-2012

It is being reported that Jerry Nelson has passed away, aged 78. Starting in 1965, Jerry Nelson was a Muppeteer. His first role was as Rowlf the dog’s right hand, filling in while Frank Oz had some time away. Nelson …

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Finally I Have The Recipe For Cookie Monster’s Cookie Dough

Originally published in Big Bird’s Busy Book in 1975, here is Cookie Monster’s recipe for his famous cookie dough – it been in his family for years. What a terrible tease at the end there – you have to buy …

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Guess Which TV Show Will Feature Steve Carell, Kristen Bell, Don Cheadle, Jon Hamm, Joseph Gordon-Levitt Next Season

And many, many more people you like to watch too. Maybe some you don’t.

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

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

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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Oscar The Grouch Predicts The Oscars

I love this guy, even though his voice seems to have “broken” since the last time I saw him and he’s not quite as grouchy as I recalled. Guy Lodge and Kris Tapley, eat your hearts out. The image at …

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The Simpsons Going Live Action Again, Katy Perry To Guest Star

The last time The Simpsons went live action it was for a specially produced, promotional recreation of the show’s opening sequence. Here it is now in case you have somehow never seen it. Now, this leap into live action going …

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