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EXCLUSIVE: The Jim Henson Company is developing All-of-a-Kind Family, a live-action one-hour drama series about a hardworking Jewish family in Manhattan's bustling Lower East Side in 1911, based on the collection of books by Sydney Taylor. Jordana Lewis Jaffe (NCIS: Los Angeles) is attached to develop the project and…

EXCLUSIVE: The Jim Henson Company has inked a worldwide distribution deal with Shout! Factory, which will bring thirteen of Henson’s beloved series and specials to streaming, broadcast and home entertainment platforms across all territories, with Henson’s award-winning Farscape making its global AVOD premiere. In…

Jim Henson's Creature Shop animatronics and visual effects studio, based in Los Angeles, has teamed with Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company to produce life-size puppets for the RSC's stage adaptation of legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki's 1988 hand-drawn classic My Neighbour Totoro. The RSC's most ambitious…

EXCLUSIVE: Queen Latifah’s shingle Flavor Unit Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company are developing a film adaptation of The Conductors, the fantasy debut novel by Nicole Glover. Released back in March of this year, the book introduces Hetty Rhodes, a magic-user and former conductor on the Underground Railroad who…

EXCLUSIVE: The Current War and The Giver scribe Michael Mitnick has been set to write Jim Henson biopic Muppet Man for Disney and The Jim Henson Company, we can reveal. Currently in development, the live-action film will chart the life and times of the legendary puppeteer, creator of The Muppets, Fraggle Rock and many…

EXCLUSIVE: Hägar the Horrible is set to make a raid on the small screen with an animated family sitcom series in development. Fresh Off the Boat writer and producer Eric Ziobrowski is writing the adaptation, which comes from King Features, the Hearst-owned division behind the comic strip and The Jim Henson…

Heeeee-rrrrrrre’s Ned! Disney+ said today that it will stream the galaxy’s first alien-hosted talk show starting September 4. Watch a promo for Earth to Ned above and examine the key art below. Produced by The Jim Henson Company and Marwar Junction Productions, Earth to Ned is a decidedly different take on the…

Disney+ is teaming with The Jim Henson Company on what they describe as an “out-of-this-world” talk show. The upcoming streaming service has given a series order to Earth To Ned, a comedic half-hour in which Ned, a blue-skinned alien, and his lieutenant Cornelius, interview celebrity guests, Deadline has confirmed…

EXCLUSIVE: Webtoon, the webcomic publisher and app that reaches more than 15 million daily readers, has partnered with The Jim Henson Company to develop Rachel Smythe’s Lore Olympus as an animated series aimed at young adults. Lore Olympus, a stylized, contemporary, and vamped-up reworking of Greek mythology, is the…

The Jim Henson Company’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance series launches as a Netflix Original on Aug. 30 and the just-arrived trailer shows the revival of the Reagan Era fantasy brand has held on to its unique, stylized puppetry persona but also expanded out its visual ambitions (and Gelfing gravitas) with 21st…

Some 2,500 hours of The Jim Henson Company’s programming is now available on Amazon Prime Video. Beginning today, the content, which includes specials and series, is offered in 68 English language territories including the U.S., Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and the Nordics, but much of the content is not…

EXCLUSIVE: Jim Henson's iconic 80s anthology series The Storyteller is eyeing a comeback. Fremantle has teamed with The Jim Henson Company and author/TV writer-producer Neil Gaiman (American Gods, Good Omens) to develop a reimagined version of The Storyteller for television. Inspired by his daughter Lisa's university…