The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus is making a live-action fantasy TV series with the Jim Henson Company, creating its own new monsters and creatures.

Back in 1977, Jim Henson started thinking about a project that was beyond what he was doing with his beloved Muppets. Inspired by the work of English illustrator Brian Froud, he began to conceptualize a vast and fantastical world, populated with characters much darker and more intricate than anything he had attempted before. This project would eventually become The Dark Crystal, and in order to make his dream a reality, Henson would have to assemble an all-star group of artists, technicians, designers and puppeteers, and venture into the more technologically complex waters of animatronics. Just as The Dark Crystal …

Disney+ has unveiled the first trailer for Earth to Ned, which is an upcoming talk show for the streaming service that’s a little… out of this world. Because it’s hosted by an alien. Get it? Produced by The Jim Henson Company and Marwar Junction Productions, Earth to Ned puts an intergalactic twist on the talk show format with this goofy-looking alien named Ned and his sidekick Cornelius interviewing guests ranging from Gina Carano to RuPaul to Billy Dee Williams to Joel McHale and many many more. This is clearly a Disney+ tie-in and I wouldn’t …

Disney+ picks up Earth to Ned, an unscripted puppet comedy talk show from the Jim Henson Company that will feature celebrity interviews.

The Jim Henson Company's 1977 special Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, is getting an update from Flight of the Conchords’s Bret McKenzie! As Variety reports, McKenzie will write both the script and the new music for the family Christmas movie, which is being produced by The Jim Henson Company, Ed Helms’s Pacific Electric Picture Company (Corporate Animals), and Snoot Entertainment (You’re Next). The original TV special was based on Russell Hoban’s children’s book of the same name, which features a family of financially strapped singing otters who seize an opportunity to win a …

Imagine for a moment the sheer amount of willpower, manpower, and creative effort that went into not only faithfully recreating Jim Henson's fantasy world from The Dark Crystal but vastly expanding it for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. That was the task set out for the production team, led by Production Designer Gavin Bocquet. An alumnus of Star Wars, having worked with George Lucas and Frank Oz on four feature films in the franchise in addition to more than 30 other titles, Emmy-winner Bocquet was well-suited to bring new and returning aspects of this alien world …

From Fozzie Bear to Kermit the Frog, here are some of the most beloved Muppets Jim Henson ever created.

From Big Bird to the Fraggles and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, here are our picks for Jim Henson's most iconic (non-Muppet) creations ever.

In a far-flung world not so dissimilar from our own, disparate peoples from isolated kingdoms must overcome their differences if they hope to defeat powerful, unified, evil forces and save themselves--and their world--from destruction. That's a solid if rather general fantasy story synopsis. It's so familiar in fact that it could apply to anything from classics like The Lord of the Rings and The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe to contemporary fantasy favorites like Game of Thrones. So what's the one thing that separates these iconic stories from the incredible tale told in …

Jim Henson made some of the most memorable, beloved, sometimes frightening puppets of all time, but here are 10 of his more forgotten works.

Why are there so many songs about rainbows...