Merchandise news and other info about The Muppets and Jim Henson's creations.
Sesame Street added TikTok to their social media handles and two old friends help introduce it.
You can see Sesame's post below including the clever caption:
@sesamestreet Yip, you read that right. #SesameStreet ♬ Yip Yip TikTok - sesamestreet
As we told you earlier this month, Craig Shemin's long-awaited book about Sam and Friends: The Story of Jim Henson's First Television Show will be rereleased September 24 and is now available to pre-order through Bear Manor Media.
Long before Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, college students Jim Henson and Jane Nebel created a long-running daily local Washington, D.C. television program called Sam and Friends, where Jim developed his unique approach to comedy and introduced the world to a puppet named Kermit.
In this book, President of The Jim Henson Legacy and author of The Muppets Character Encyclopedia, Craig Shemin, explores the story behind Sam and Friends and creates an episode guide from surviving scripts and recordings.
Includes a foreword by longtime Henson collaborator Frank Oz, several complete scripts and more than 150 rare photos from The Jim Henson Company Archives. 604 pages.
We're back with another batch of rare Muppet performances.
The fall issue of Disney Twenty-Thee, Disney's official fan magazine just came out, and while The Muppets aren't featured, they are mentioned a few times.
Disney fan and Muppets Haunted Mansion guest Yvette Nicole Brown was asked who was her favorite Muppet to work.
Luckily her favorite Muppet and her favorite to work with are one an the same.. Gonzo!
Below she explains why:
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Just yesterday it was announced that HBO Max removed the HBO Max Originals Esme & Roy, The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo, and an unspecified “select group of Sesame Street specials. Now we Variety is reporting that the streamer has removed something even scarier...about 200 classic Sesame Street episodes!
HBO and Sesame Workshop first struck an agreement in 2015, providing a new revenue stream for “Sesame Street,” while granting HBO rights to run new episodes of the landmark series first before they appeared on its longtime home, PBS.
Their current agreement keeps new Sesame Street seasons first-run on HBO Max through 2025.
Still available for now on HBO Max, in addition to remaining episodes of the Sesame Street series, are the 10-episode Sesame Street Mecha Builders, seven seasons of My Sesame Street Friends and The Magical Wand Chase special.
Our adventures in thrifting with Cinema Sickness continue as I hunt for Muppet stuff while making terrible puns along the way.
Prolific songwriter Paul Williams was recently inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and none other then Kermit the Frog helped honor the frequent Muppet collaborator.
Williams delivered a deeply impassioned yet often hilarious acceptance speech, showing his famous sense of humor by saying, “Songwriters can be shy about pitching their songs, but publishers are shameless. I’ve heard my songs pitched during shivas and when brides were walking down the aisle.”
But the climax of this brilliant songwriter’s emotional speech came at the end, when he recalled the time he briefly met the man for whom his award was named, over 50 years ago. Williams had attained some success at the time but was in awe of Mercer and intimated, so the meeting amounted to just a few words and a wave. Williams, a longstanding and active recovery advocate, spoke of how his retelling of the incident became more and more exaggerated and flattering toward himself over the years. But he made amends by saying to Mercer, who died in 1976, “I wanted so much to be loved by you that I lied about it."
Join me as I hunt for and unbox Lego's Muppet Minifigures!
Recently some behind the scenes photos of the Muppets posing for the The Muppet Movie posters were listed on ebay.
In collaboration with The Jim Henson Company, Shout! Factory will support each one of these projects with a long-term growth strategy that entails streaming media initiatives, content syndication (digital, EST, VOD and broadcast), and packaged media (Blu-ray/DVD). In prepping its aggressive rollout of the fan-favorite series Farscape on streaming, broadcast, transactional platforms and packaged media, Shout! Factory will leverage extensive access to archived content from The Jim Henson Company. Further news as to The Jim Henson Company’s initiatives with Shout! Factory and Shout! Factory TV will be forthcoming.
“FAST Channels are the wave of the future in terms of getting your content front and center for both devoted fans and new audiences,” said The Jim Henson Company’s Vice President of Global Distribution, Kerry Novick. “Shout! Factory is one of the best in this business, and audiences will enjoy watching beloved Henson productions, like The Storyteller, as well as discovering new favorites through this partnership. We’re especially excited for the global fans of Farscape to once again explore the uncharted territories with John Crichton and the crew of Moya in its long overdue premiere on AVOD.”
“The entire team at Shout is enthusiastic to be working with The Jim Henson Company on Farscape and other popular series,” added Shout’s Senior Vice President of Programming & New Business Development, Jeffrey Peisch. “The Jim Henson Company has produced some of the most acclaimed television programs of the last several decades; we are humbled and energized to be given the opportunity to make Henson programming available to the widest possible audience.”Recognized as an innovator in puppetry, animatronics and digital animation, The Jim Henson Company has remained a leader in family entertainment for over 60 years. Henson’s most recent television credits include Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, Harriet the Spy and Fraggle Rock: Rock On!, all for Apple TV+, as well as Duff’s Happy Fun Bake Time for Discovery+, Earth to Ned for Disney+, and the Emmy-winning Netflix Original series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. The company is currently in production on Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio for Netflix, as well as the feature The Portable Door, with Sam Neill, Christoph Waltz, Miranda Otto, Jessica De Gouw and more.
Shout! Factory, LLC is a multi-platform media company devoted to film and TV distribution, development and production. Founded by Richard Foos, Bob Emmer, and CEO Garson Foos in 2003, Shout! owns and manages a large portfolio of films, contemporary and classic TV series, animation and documentaries. The company’s creative acquisition mandate has established it as a leading independent distributor, with partners and properties including Gkids, Sesame Street, Laika Studios, The Carol Burnett Show, The Johnny Carson Show, Stephen J. Cannell Productions, ALF, ITV Studios and Major League Baseball Productions, to name a few. Shout! Factory Kids focuses on live-action and animated kids and family properties as well as anime, with the company releasing films and television shows in other genres under the imprints Scream Factory and Shout Select. Shout! develops, acquires and distributes new films via Shout! Studios, and owns and operates libraries including Mystery Science Theater 3000 (in partnership with creator Joel Hodgson) and the Roger Corman New Horizons Pictures Library, all while operating Shout! Factory TV.
That’s a wrap on season 1 of Muppets Mayhem!!! Disney, please don’t be mad at me for posting this photo! We truly had the most wonderful cast and crew who worked so hard to bring the world a show filled with laughs and joy. Can’t wait for everyone to see it. #Mayhead4Life pic.twitter.com/H4YlZyNRIq
— Adam F. Goldberg (@adamfgoldberg) August 6, 2022
Muppets Mayhem was billed as a limited series, but it appears that there may be room for even more Mayhem!
Hopefully we'll find out soon when we can expect Muppets Mayhem to premiere on Disney+.
