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now-deceased Entertainment Weekly, a ridiculously sweet gig that had me jetting all over the world and popping in on movie productions to interview their casts and crews. But when I arrived at the soundstage outside London, in Shepperton Studios, where “Lost in Space” was filming, I could tell right away this was going to be no ordinary set visit.

Emilio Delgado, the actor and singer who for 45 years was a warm and familiar presence in children's lives and a rare Latino face on American television as fix-it shop owner Luis on “Sesame Street,” died Thursday.His wife, Carol Delgado, told The Associated Press that Emilio Delgado died from the blood cancer multiple myeloma at their home in New York. He was 81.As Luis, Delgado, a Mexican American, got to play an ordinary, non-stereotypical Latino character at a time when such depictions were few and far between on TV, for adults or children.“There really wasn’t any representation of actual people,” Delgado said in a 2021 interview on the YouTube series “Famous Cast Words.” "Most of the roles that I went out for were either for bandits or gang members."That changed with “Sesame Street," where a diverse cast interacted with a diverse group of children, along with Jim Henson creations Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Elmo and Grover.Delgado joined the show starting with its third season in 1971.

The Muppets Mayhem is set to follow the beloved show’s band as they try and record their first ever album, according to Variety.The show will star Lilly Singh as Nora, a human junior A&R executive who must manage the band, featuring Dr. Teeth, Animals, Floyd Pepper, Janice, Zoot and Lips.Adam F.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterDisney Plus has ordered a new series about the beloved Muppets musical group The Electric Mayhem Band, Variety has learned.The series, titled “The Muppets Mayhem” will follow the the band as they try to record their first ever album. Lilly Singh will star as Nora, the human junior A&R executive tasked with managing The Electric Mayhem band. The band consists of Dr.

LOS ANGELES -- It was a quilling experience for all.Percy, a porcupine puppet of prodigious proportions, emerged from her giant stump home for an audience of schoolchildren and media members at a Los Angeles park on Tuesday.The adorable beast inspired oohs and awwws as she blinked her droopy eyes and opened her mouth to show her buck teeth. She stood nearly two stories tall with a nose the size of a Volkswagen.A joint project of the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Percy was let out to celebrate next week's opening of the zoo's new Wildlife Explorers Basecamp.Six months in the planning, the puppet is modeled on the prehensile-tailed porcupine, native to South America.

Foo Fighters have shared a new song from the Fraggle Rock revival series – listen to ‘Fraggle Rock Rock’ below.The original Jim Henson children’s show ran for five seasons between 1983 and 1987. A cartoon spin-off, Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series, aired for one run of episodes in the latter year.Following on from the success of 2020’s Zoom-filmed Fraggle Rock: Rock On!, a reboot series called Back To The Rock landed on Apple TV+ today (January 21).

Fraggle Rock is returning to screens - but what many fans don't know is that the hit 80s show was inspired by Scotland.

embraced the world of horror until this year's Disney+ special Muppets Haunted Mansion, the ingenius combination of Jim Henson's fun-loving creations and one of Disneyland's most iconic attractions. Considering how excellent the special is, one can only hope that the characters aren't too far away from making fright-filled projects.

Throughout the years, The Muppets have established themselves as staples of Christmas programming.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

“I’d love to do the Muppets again but Disney doesn’t want me,” Frank Oz told The Guardian in an interview published today. That’s right, the man who brought to life Cookie Monster, Grover, Fozzie Bear, Bert and Yoda says he is not welcome in Disney’s Muppetverse.

It seems like Frank Oz’s Muppet days are behind him.

Labyrinth, a milestone film in David Bowie‘s acting career, will return to the big screen in celebration of its 35th anniversary.The film, which was directed by Jim Henson and co-stars Jennifer Connelly in her breakout role, will embark on a limited theatrical run in the US on September 12, 13 and 15.

“canceling” Dr. Seuss books, Jim Henson’s classic puppets are all of a sudden making their debut in the right-wing culture wars, it seems.Owens was incensed by a “Muppet Babies” clip called “Gonzo-rella,” where baby Gonzo decides to dress up like a princess.

Chris Willman Music Writer“Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street” has the good fortune to be arriving with about a hundred more built-in advantages than most documentaries. Offering up vintage backstage footage of Jim Henson and Frank Oz operating the Muppets feels a little like Henry Houdini coming back to reveal all his secrets.

The most important (and frankly, most difficult) achievement of Marilyn Agrelo’s documentary “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street” is to take us back to a world in which “Sesame Street” didn’t exist – an all but impossible task anymore, because it represented such a seismic shift in children’s entertainment.

EXCLUSIVE:  Verve have Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews who recently won a Primetime Emmy in the Outstanding Children’s Program category for their Netflix series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.

It’s time to play the music and light the lights because “The Muppet Show” is finally joining Disney+.

Ellise Shafer administratorGood news for Muppet enthusiasts – all five seasons of “The Muppet Show” will be available to stream on Disney Plus on Feb. 19.Created by the legendary Jim Henson, the original “Muppet Show” was a variety half-hour featuring Kermit the Frog as the showrunner and host.

All five seasons of The Muppet Show are heading to Disney+. In addition to the first three seasons of the iconic series, Seasons 4 and 5, which have never previously been released on home entertainment, will begin streaming February 19. You can watch a preview clip below.

A documentary about the beloved children’s show “Sesame Street” is coming to HBO Documentary Films called “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street,” and the film will debut in 2021.The documentary film is directed by Marilyn Agrelo and follows the work of Muppets creator Jim Henson along with some of the other pivotal voices who helped bring “Sesame Street” to the air in the 1960s and made it a household name for generations.“Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street” is specifically inspired by

Thanksgiving is around the corner, and at this point, it is clear that this year the holiday celebration would be like no other.

Tierra Whack has dropped her first official single of 2020. "Dora" is streaming above and comes with a brightly colored video featuring a cameo from The Muppets.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorDesigner Jeremy Scott is now a puppet master.Instead of a live fashion show for his Moschino spring/summer 2021 collection, Scott teamed up with Jim Henson’s Creature Shop for a film  showcasing 40 looks using 30-inch marionettes.Produced by Alex Winter, the seven-minute short, “No Strings Attached,” features a full runway show that even includes a front row of marionettes of the fashion journalism elite, including Anna Wintour (Vogue),

Netflix has cancelled the star-studded fantasy series Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance after one season.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorThere will be no Season 2 for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Netflix confirmed the cancellation Monday of Jim Henson’s epic fantasy adventure series — a prequel to the original 1982 film — just hours after the series’ win this weekend at the Creative Arts Emmys for Outstanding Children’s Program.“We can confirm that there will not be an additional season of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance,” said Lisa Henson, executive producer.

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance has officially been cancelled after only one season at Netflix.

Will Thorne Staff Writer“The Dark Crystal” will not live to see another season.Netflix has canceled the fantasy puppet series after only a single season, Variety has confirmed.The show was a prequel series to the original 1982 Jim Henson film, which tells the story of a group of young Gelflings who discover that their overlords — the evil, hideous Skeksis — are duplicitous and plan to consume their subjects’ life energy via the dark crystal in order to fuel their own.More to come…

Sue Nichols Maciorowski was an animation artist who worked on beloved Disney films including “The Lion King,” “Mulan,” and “Hercules.”Maciorowski began her career in animation while she was still in college, working as a model designer for Jim Henson’s (1936 – 1990) “Muppet Babies” as part of a team that won an Emmy Award. She got her start with Disney in 1991 with “Beauty and the Beast,” for which she was a visual development artist.

Everything to Know About Disney+ Remember the short-lived 2015 ABC series The Muppets? Jim Henson's gang of goofs returned to television with a more adult-oriented sitcom, and some people hated it. They didn't want to see Kermit and Ko.

Guitar, beer cans, a lighthouse, Elvis Presley and Kermit the Frog have all been proposed to adorn the new flag of a US state.

It was inevitable that Disney+ would try something with The Muppets. Few entertainment franchises are more beloved than Jim Henson’s troupe of felt eccentrics.

The most wonderful thing about Muppets is that they can go anywhere and do anything. Over the years, Jim Henson's felt creations have committed elaborate capers, hobnobbed with the biggest and most obscure of celebrities, become embedded in classic works of literature and even gone into space.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Unto most every TV-watching generation, a new Muppets show is born. The original “Muppet Show,” which ran from 1976 to 1981, had Jim Henson’s felt puppets take over a vaudeville theatre to perform songs, slapstick sketches and more unabashedly cheesy puns than its bewildered guests could count.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticUnto most every TV-watching generation, a new Muppets show is born. The original “Muppet Show,” which ran from 1976 to 1981, had Jim Henson’s felt puppets take over a vaudeville theater to perform songs, slapstick sketches and more unabashedly cheesy puns than its bewildered guests could count.

LOS ANGELES -- From a godfather of cinema to Kermit the Frog, the U.S. government’s small-business lending program sent money into unexpected corners of the entertainment industry.