Lisa Henson


Netflix restores Henson’s Dark Crystal for TV

Eighties movie Dark Crystal is headed for a TV remake at Netflix. The Jim Henson Company-produced feature film is being rebooted as a ten-part prequel series that goes into production this autumn in the UK. Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance will launch to Netflix’s subscribers in 190 territories, telling a story set many years before […]

Reinventing the classics

Children’s TV is something that binds and defines peer groups. With new versions of Thunderbirds, Noddy and various others in the works the commercial power of nostalgia is clearly intense, but when updating a classic respect and modern-day relevance are key, reports Jane Marlowe. Turner’s Cartoon Network was built with classic properties and senior VP […]

Discovery Kids buys Science Kid movie from Henson

Pan-regional channel Discovery Kids Latin America has acquired Sid the Science Kid: The Movie and Fraggle Rock spin-off Doozers. The Sid movie is a spin-off the Sid the Science Kid series and follows the title character and his classmate on a visit to a new science museum as they encounter a wacky professor, voiced by Back to […]