Jim Henson and Frank Oz on the set of an Orson Wells TV pilot.
Orson Welles was well-known as a Muppet fan. He famously appears in a cameo at the end of The Muppet Movie and was once quoted saying “Sesame Street is the greatest thing that ever happened to television.” I had no idea though [...]
Dogg the Bounty Hunter is one of several reality TV stars given the puppet spoof treatment in Bunraker.
Bunraker is a new puppet comedy concept built around a Puppet-host named Fez Holden who introduces faux reality show clips featuring puppet “stars” like Jo “Supernanny” Frost, Chris Angel and Dogg the Bounty Hunter. It’s being envisioned as [...]
Diggy the traffic cone stars in Hard Work Ahead, a demo for a TV show concept called Curbs.
Curbs is a proposed puppet series from Mark Evestaff and Jonathan Baudoin that revolves around three characters – Lesley, B-Roll and Diggy – trying to make it in New York City. They’ve shot a promo for the series [...]
Proposed puppet TV series Transylvania TV has a brand new web site.
The pilot for Transylvania TV (see previous post) was completed and broadcast on local TV in the Minneapolis/St. Paul last year and creator Gordon Smuder has been shopping it around ever since. There’s no word yet on when we’ll be seeing more episodes, [...]
Mr. Furry Fur Fur and his friend Flutter learn about the environment together.
Mr. Furry Fur Fur is an adorable pilot – with an adorable name – for an eco-friendly children’s television show from Ingaldson-Smith Productions. The puppet “star” of the show is an adorable raccoon built by Maria Gurevich of Furry Puppet who teaches his [...]
Tinseltown is a new puppet sitcom from the Jim Henson Company about a gay Hollywood couple.
Tinseltown (see previous post) is a new TV project from the Jim Henson Company. It’s a puppet sitcom built around a homosexual couple – Bobby Vegan (a pig) and Samson Knight (a bull) – who they juggle work, relationships a [...]
The full-length pilot/demo for a proposed Canadian series called Spadasheo is available to watch on YouTube.
Spadasheo was a proposed Canadian puppet series for kids. A pilot/demo video for the show was shot back in 2001 and featured a great crew of twentysomething Canadian puppeteers including Jay Williams (see previous post), Mike Artelle, Kanja Chen and [...]
The pilot episode of the local TV puppet show Transylvania Television has been put online.
Gordon wrote in to say that someone has apparently put the pilot episode of his show Transylvania Television (see previous post) online. The pilot of “TVTV” recently aired in Minneapolis so if you’re not a local, but having been wanting to [...]
Squirt is just one of many great-looking puppet characters that inhabits The Big Magic Book.
The full pilot for The Big Magic Book (see previous post) is now available to watch online. There are a lot of very talented people behind this project, including a few names that should be familiar to PuppetVision readers; the fantastic [...]
Squirt is just one of the many characters featured in the new trailer for the proposed children’s series The Big Magic Book.
A trailer for The Big Magic Book is available on YouTube. As I mentioned in my last post about this project, there are some really talented people involved in this and it looks pretty [...]
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