Turkey Hollow's Monsters, Network, Date and Time Revealed!

We now have our first look at Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow as well as when and where the TV movie will premiere!

Entertainment Weekly snagged an exclusive photo of Turkey Hollow's musical monsters 

along with star Mary Steenburgen.

The movie, based on a story developed in 1968 by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl, was recently discovered in the Henson archives. The unproduced screenplay was first brought to life last year via a graphic novel published by Archaia. 

Along with Steenburgen, Turkey Hollow stars Jay Harrington and Chris “Ludacris” Bridges.

The recently wrapped production was directed by Kirk Thatcher. 

The plot is as follows:

The movie follows the story of the Emmerson family, recently divorced father Ron (Harrington) and his kids Tim (Graham Verchere) and Annie (Genevieve Buechner), as they head to the quaint town of Turkey Hollow to spend a rustic Thanksgiving at the farm of Ron’s eccentric Aunt Cly (Steenburgen). Surprised by the lack of internet and technology in Turkey Hollow, Tim and Annie soon find themselves swept up in tracking the “Howling Hoodoo,” an elusive monster that, up until now, Turkey Hollow residents have long dismissed as mere legend. The Thanksgiving holiday threatens to take a bleak turn when a scheming neighbor frames Aunt Cly for turkey theft, but the fractured family teams up with some surprising new friends to save the day. Ludacris appears as an on-screen narrator in the film.

Turkey Hollow is an unproduced gem from our Company’s archives,” said Jim Henson Company CEO Lisa Henson. “I have fond memories from my childhood of my father planning and developing this production. He was delighted by the idea of magical creatures living in the woods and was excited to portray them in a more realistic way than his other well-known puppet characters.

Lisa, who is executive producing, was first introduced to these monsters in the ’60s when her dad enlisted her and her sister’s help for a photo session involving the puppets. By the time she rediscovered them as an adult, however, they were in poor condition and had to be remade. The new ones are still in the same “spirit of the original characters,” Lisa tells EW, but are a bit more high-tech: The updated versions have blinking eyes and animatronic components.

Produced by The Jim Henson Company, Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow is Executive Produced by Lisa Henson and Halle Stanford (The Jim Henson Company’s EVP of Children’s Entertainment), as well as Michael Taylor of Multiple Media Entertainment. Kirk Thatcher (It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie ) is directing. Christopher Baldi and Tim Burns wrote the script based on a story by Jim Henson, Jerry Juhl and Kirk Thatcher. The Burbank, CA location of Jim Henson’s Creature shop designed and fabricated the creatures of Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow.

Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow will make it's long awaited premiere on Lifetime on Nov. 21 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

Archaia "Storyteller", "Tale" and "Turkey Hollow" Novelization News!

We have an update to our post about Archaia's upcoming Henson novelizations. 
According to Nerdist, the upcoming Storyteller graphic novel will be a reprint of Archaia's 2011 graphic novel along with new "illustrations from Hannah Christenson and Eva Eskelinen.... and photos from The Jim Henson Archives that show a behind the scenes look at Jim Henson’s Creature Shop during the making of The Storyteller."

Here's a look a the updated cover art.

But that's not all, folks. Archaia is also working on turning Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl’s unproduced script for the special, “The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow”  in to a graphic novelization similar to what they did for "Tale of Sand."  Muppet Show Comic Book illustrator Roger Landrige will be handling the artwork this time, with a release date sometime this November.

Archaia’s description of the book is as follows:

Turkey Hollow is a picturesque town where hundreds of years ago, unbeknownst to the citizens, a meteorite landed nearby a small brook on the outskirts of town. One Thanksgiving, while young Timmy Henderson practices his guitar, he’s accompanied by strange, unearthly, musical sounds. That meteorite wasn’t a rock at all but an egg holding seven furry, goofy monsters, each with a unique musical sound. After the initial shock, Timmy befriends the lovable creatures following him all around Turkey Hollow. Not everyone takes a liking to the visitors though and it’s up to Timmy to protect his new friends and save Thanksgiving!

Thanks to our friends at ToughPigs for the info.

And speaking of "Tale of Sand," Archaia will release "Jim Henson's Tale of Sand: The Original Screenplay"July 8th with new artwork by Ramon Pérez by itself, and as a box set with the original "Tale of Sand" graphic novel. You can pre-order your copy from the links above. 

                                                                       Box set cover art

Archaia has really stepped up their collaboration with the Henson Company and I can't wait to see what it yields next!