Henson Company and John Tartaglia team up for new puppet series on PBS

[Pig'sSaysAdios]

Muppeteer and Avenue Q puppeteer John Tartaglia and The Jim Henson Company are collaborating on a new puppet tv series about ocean creatures,entitled "Splash". The show has been greenlit for 40 episodes and will air on PBS Kids this fall.

http://www.toughpigs.com/splash-pbs/

 

[MuppetSpot]

I wonder if Kevin Clash will be involved with this.

 

[Pig'sSaysAdios]

I wonder if Kevin Clash will be involved with this.

He could be involved in a very minor way.If he is too involved, the show could risk getting a bad reputation.

 

[MuppetSpot]

True let's hope he's just noncredit puppeteer.

 

[backpackmina]

True let's hope he's just noncredit puppeteer.

Shame that that's the only way he can work again.

 

[Daffyfan4ever]

I wonder why John didn't get Ernie when Steve left SS. I wonder about that since he played him before. I mean Billy's done a great job with Ernie, I'm just curious about that, but I may be getting too much off topic. It was just one of those "speaking of John" types of deals.

 

[D'Snowth]

Dagnabit! That was another treatment I had that I hoped to bring to TV someday: a puppet sitcom about ocean creatures - it was going to be an adaption from a cartoon I did waaay back in 2003.

It's like all the ideas I have somebody else (who do actually have actual resources to work with) runs with them before I do: like how GLEE and its carbon copies came out shortly after I developed a concert for a musical puppet sitcom, or how the movie THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU is very similar to a movie concept I had (though I did eventually work that premise somewhat in my TECHNICOLOR DREAMS film).

Oh, who am I kidding? I'm never going to get any of my projects or ideas off the ground: there's too much corporate interference in American entertainment today, and I live in an area where - despite us having a sizeable network of indepedent producers and filmmakers - there just aren't any resources like studios and equipment and such.

 

[backpackmina]

I wonder why John didn't get Ernie when Steve left SS. I wonder about that since he played him before. I mean Billy's done a great job with Ernie, I'm just curious about that, but I may be getting too much off topic. It was just one of those "speaking of John" types of deals.

I honestly can't tell a difference between the 3 of them.

 

[MuppetSpot]

Well maybe Sesame Workshop needed a puppeteer who wasn't always busy like John or Steve.

 

[Drtooth]

I think we're missing the big picture here.

Henson successfully pitched a show to PBS. They have a mainstream television series again. Considering that Doozers went straight to Hulu Plus in the US, it really hurt the mainstream presence the show would have got.