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I'm a bit mistrustful of Jim Hill's reports on Muppet matters -- I'm sure he does know a lot of people at Disney, but his stuff is always based on unnamed sources, and he tends to beat things up a lot. A recent example of a clearly biased Hill claim about why Frank Oz no longer does the...

For Hitchhiker's, Sam is the obvious casting for Marvin, I'd have thought. In general, I can't imagine the Muppets doing anything that's not in the public domain -- which would exclude Hitchhiker's, Peter Pan (at least in the UK), and any direct apaptations of musicals. Every major adaptation...

As I've mentioned on here before, nobody outside of the USA would seriously consider the H-word (as we apparently need to refer to it on this forum) to constitute swearing on any level. It's also a given that this kind of review program is going to have more so-called 'adult content' -- after...

In the Bear In The Big Blue House episode Rockin' Rocko, which I rewatched recently, the gang go to see a movie called 'Hare' (a sendup of the 1960s musical classic Hair, a point presumably lost on most of the target toddler viewers!) Anyway, the hare character looked extremely like a redressed...

Even in the heyday of TMS, the Electric Mayhem only represented one style of music (a kind of funk/jazz thing). To give just one example, punk rock really kicked off in the UK during the time TMS was produced -- it's not a 90s phenomenon, that was more a revival. The dominant commercial style...

Though nothing is certain until a show is actually announced, there are a number of assumptions we can very safely make about a CGI Muppet Babies production: * No-one will feel any obligation to cast either the classic Muppet performers or the original voice artists from Muppet Babies in the...

Even assuming this were true, they'd still have to pay for the rights; they're not going to get them for free! Add together all the rights in a season and the accountants are going to get nervous, because it greatly inflates the overall cost of producing the DVD (both directly through the rights...

Regarding 'Sam and Friends': obviously Henson own the rights to the characters involved, but did the company ever go to the trouble of buying the rights to the footage itself? Lacking any specific evidence to the contrary, I would have assumed that WRC-TV owned this (to the extent that the...

Henson has issued an official press release in response to this announcement: Muppets Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker Comment on Being Named the UK's Favourite Screen Scientists LOS ANGELES, September 8/PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant Beaker today commented on being...

As far as SS versus TMS goes: SS is always going to have an advantage here, because it's designed as an _educational_ show with a specific audience target audience: children of pre-school age. As long as people keep having kids, there's always going to be a new market for the show, and there'll...

With the news of Marlon Brando's death, we can expect to see quite a few references to Frank Oz, since The Score, which Frank directed, was Brando's last big movie role. Unfortunately, that also means we'll see a lot of the stories about unpleasantness on the set (Brando refusing to show up if...

It has to be said that only in the US would that even be considered a swear word. In Australia and the UK, the h-word (it seems ridiculous to put it that way, but I don't want to offend anyone right now) would pass by without even a single remark. Ditto the d-word. Cheers Angus

If Disney did send the production overseas, they'd hardly be the first company to ever do so. To quote the most obvious example, Farscape was filmed in Australia because it's much cheaper than the US. This kind of offshore production happens all the time, especially for TV where budgets are...

This article just appeared in the Sun (daily UK tabloid and the biggest selling paper), as part of the daily Bizarre gossip column: Kermit and Miss Pinky PINK proved she’s not a Gucci or Louis Vuitton kind of girl when she stepped out with this hideous KERMIT bag. The singer dared to be...

Coming in late to this conversation, a couple of observations: (1) I notice no-one has had anything much to say about the inclusion of Bear in the buyout. Does this mean everyone thinks that's a good thing? Obviously the concern that Disney might kid-ify all the Muppet properties doesn't...

I find it interesting that most of the discussion of who would be suitable casting is largely based on the MGM movie. If there's one thing we've learnt from previous adaptations, it's that the Muppet team aren't afraid to mess around with the plot and main characters. So assuming that Rowlf...

I always assumed the Fleet was a reference to Fleet Street, which is historically where all of Britain's newspapers used to be located. Even though all of them are now moved, Fleet Street is still widely understood as a reference to the 'fourth estate'. Cheers Gus

I'm a little astounded that everyone has been willing to attack the dictionary definition based on how it was paraphrased by a journalist. This is what the actual definition in the ODE says: muppet • noun Brit. informal an incompetent or foolish person. - ORIGIN 1990s: from Muppet, the...

Assuming this was feasible, the costs would include: * property taxes * maintenance (even a building with no-one in it needs regular checks) * security (I find it hard to believe a building could be left unoccupied in New York for months on end without attracting squatters) * accounting...

If Vol 3 does include full episodes, it's probably safe to assume that they'll try and pick guest stars who have a wide following so they can sell more copies. I'm sure the 'Star Wars' episode was included on Vol 1 because it would sell to Star Wars completists (a bigger group, I suspect, than...