Puppeteer Dave Goelz as a Muppet. `Nuff...
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About The Author
I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
Is NBC’s 30 Rock based on The Muppet Show? Brian Lynch – screenwriter of the unproduced and literally-titled The Next Muppet Movie – has written a hilarious post on his blog alleging that the NBC comedy 30 Rock is a rip off of The Muppet Show. Although he’s writing with his tongue firmly in his...
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Thu Tran’s Food Party is like no cooking show you’ve ever seen before. Food Party is a new show on IFC that describes itself as a “mind-bending, non-reality cooking show” and is built around artist/food enthusiast Thu Tran and a cast of puppets who cook up all kinds of bizarre recipes together. Food Party grew...
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The cast of 30 Rock was transformed in to puppets for a very recent, very special episode. The latest episode of the NBC comedy 30 Rock featured a fantasy sequence with a a cast of puppets. If you live in the U.S. you can check out the episode on Hulu (its title is Apollo, Apollo),...
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Ricky Gervais meets Elmo and (of course) hilarity ensues. This has been circulating around the web for awhile now (I shared it on Twitter earlier in the week)…outtakes from a shoot Ricky Gervais recently did for a guest appearance on Sesame Street. Gervais hits the ground running with Elmo, musing about being the only one...
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The Norwegian puppet series Komet Kameratene airs on NRK One in Norway. Komet Kameratene is a kid’s show that airs on NRK One in Norway. The series is shot in Norwegian and there doesn’t seem to be much English-language information available about it, but from what I can gather it’s about a group of aliens...
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Big and Small work to coexist and understand each other in the preschool series Big and Small. Big and Small is a new Canadian/U.K. co-production for preschoolers featuring puppets by the Grogs (of Mr. Meaty and Nanalan’ fame) that debuted this week here in Canada. It’s a brilliantly simple concept built around two best friends...
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Elmo and bunch of other Sesame Street Muppets make a special appearance on Scrubs tomorrow night. Sesame Street is coming to Scrubs. A special episode of the ABC sitcom featuring guest appearances by Sesame Street’s Muppets airs tomorrow night, January 27th. According to ABC, the plot of the episode revolves around Scrubs’ J.D. “learning the...
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Team Smithereen stunt puppet Whoop flies through the air on handmade wings. If you haven’t seen the Team Smithereen Blog (see previous post) or haven’t check up on it recently, go have a look. It’s updated nearly everyday with photos and tidbits of behind-the-scenes info from the upcoming series from the Dan Clark...
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The new Muppet special, A Muppet Christmas: Letters To Santa airs on NBC in the United States Wednesday night. Just a quick reminder that A Muppet Christmas: Letters To Santa (see previous post) airs tomorrow night on NBC in the U.S. The special is getting one final publicity push on daytime TV Wednesday with Kermit...
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Size Small was a popular Canadian children’s television series in the 1980s. Well, perhaps classic isn’t quite the word for it, but I watched Size Small all the time when I was growing up. I hadn’t thought about this show for years, but I recently saw a mention of it on Kristen McGregor’s blog and...
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The producers of the upcoming puppet TV series Team Smithereen have launched a behind-the-scenes blog. Team Smithereen (see previous post) is a currently-in-production puppet series for Disney’s Jetix channel that “follows a hapless team of puppet stuntmen who, more often than not, get into trouble on some of their death-defying feats.” The series won’t hit...
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