In addition to making the Muppets, Fraggle Rock, and the Dark Crystal, all while innovating puppetry for a generation, Jim ...

The Muppet Show started as two pilot episodes. The episodes didn’t get any traction in the states. However, the show was picked up by producer Lew Grade in the U.K., who agreed to co-produce the show.

If you thought Gonzo was, well, gonzo on “The Muppet Show,” you should have seen him cook when the cameras stopped rolling.

Having created puppets for “Sesame Street” and “Saturday Night Live” in the early 1970s, Henson was itching to make his own show. But after two failed “Muppet Show” pilots for ABC and some further ...

The University of Maryland celebrated the 90th birthday of Muppets creator and alumnus Jim Henson by attempting to break a world record.

The U.K. public broadcaster teams with the Jim Henson Co. on "That Puppet Game Show," which will combine elements of game shows and sitcoms and feature celebrity guests. By Stuart Kemp THR's awards ...

Jane Ann Nebel loved the Nativity scene beneath her parents’ Christmas tree. As a young child in St. Albans, Queens, she often played with the ceramic figurines — cradling the Baby Jesus in her palm, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The "How I Met Your Mother" star and longtime Muppet aficionado performed a song from "A Taste for Love" for Halloween. Jason ...

Disney's up-and-down handling of the Muppets hits a new rocky patch, as the studio prepares to re-align the Muppets' place at Disney World. Reading time 2 minutes When Disney began teasing a raft of ...

You could say Kathryn Mullen was Yoda’s right-hand woman. It takes at least two people to manipulate a glove puppet, and while the great Frank Oz operated the little green Jedi master’s head and left ...