Jim Henson News

This review is brought to you by the letter H and by the number 40. If this paraphrase strikes a chord, then you're among the three generations of folks who've watched Sesame Street , the longest running children's show on television, more times than you can count.

Albert Lamorisse's 1956 children's classic The Red Balloon will screen alongside his White Mane this Wednesday, July 8, at UCSB's Campbell Hall.

Toto and Dorothy learn they're not in Kansas anymore. TriStar Pictures Kermit and Miss Piggy cuddle near the Statue of Liberty.

The Jim Henson Company and Archaia announced today that they have entered into a partnership that will publish comic books and graphic novels based on popular Henson titles as well as new co-branded original properties.

Labyrinth is headed to Blu-ray Disc on 1 September from Sony. This classic Jim Henson/David Bowie creation will arrive with a 1080p transfer and a Dolby TrueHD 5.1 sound mix, though bonuses have yet to be formally announced.

Yeah, sure I knew Jim Henson's Muppets predated Sesame Street and that most were created for commercials.

Muppet makers at Jim Henson Co. are moving from their Soho office at 627 Broadway to a 12,000-square-foot space in Long Island City, at 37-18 Northern Boulevard.

"Sesame Street" is a children's television show that began in November 1969, but continues to touch our lives in one way or another.

Unless they've been living under "Fraggle Rock," most people know that Jim Henson is the man behind the Muppets.

Elizabeth Blair of NPR has interviewed many people, but she may have just met her match in Cookie Monster.

The economic structure of Jim Henson's cartoon realm called Fraggle Rock reflects our own.

Size doesn't matter when it comes to creeks, frogs and museums. And they meet in a big way at the Jim Henson Delta Boyhood permanent exhibit in the tiny Mississippi town of Leland, about 70 miles south of Clarksdale.

The career of Jim Henson begins long before "The Muppet Show." "He did hundreds of television commercials in the 1960s," says Karen Falk, Director of Archives for the Jim Henson Company.

Posted By: Mishka-Shubaly The vaults cough up a strange and compelling relic in Youth '68 . It's an hour long documentary that aired commercial-free on NBC forty-one years ago, directed by a tall young man named Jim Henson who recalled his family's purchase of a television as "the biggest event of his adolescence." He later went on to do a couple ...

The Asheville Puppetry Alliance is turning 10, and it's celebrating its birthday with two parties on Saturday: * A Very Puppet Birthday is designed for families with children and will be 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Blue Ridge Motion Pictures Studio in East Asheville.

Catherine Telford-Keogh may not have had a say in the titling of her solo show at Keep Six , labeled 'Pleasure Principles,' a Freudian term that she not only does not associate with, but actually detests; nor did her battle to use her full, unabridged name bear any fruit ; however, any censorship of ideas and nomenclature in the press release is ...

Jim Henson. That's not a sentence, but dropping the name is a cheap and easy way to inspire goodwill at the top of your DVD column - at least for anybody 26 and older.

This week, the Michigan Theater, at 603 E. Liberty St., offers something for kids, and also something quite decidedly for adults.

In a career spanning just 15 years, Richard Amsel created illustrations for movies and television that became part of the cultural language of the 1970s and '80s. For the next month, the University of the Arts in Philadelphia is celebrating the acquisition of more than 500 sketches and illustrations by Amsel, a 1969 graduate who died in 1985.

If Jim Henson's only intention was to make the world a little better, he well exceeded his goal.