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Broadcasting & Cable, November, 2000
Brian Henson's creative heritage goes back more than 40 years, when his father, the late Jim Henson, developed one of the most successful programming franchises by playing with puppets on television. The whimsy of Kermit the Frog evolved into the multinational, multimedia Muppet empire known as the Jim Henson Co.
Brian Henson started in the Creature Shop, the breeding ground for mechanized hand puppetry gone awry and went on to direct and produce several Muppet feature films. He is now chairman of Jim Henson Co., and his current projects are mostly in television: a partner in the Odyssey channel, a miniseries for CBS, Disney Channel's Bear in the Big Blue House and Sci Fi's Farscape. Farscape, a series about an American astronaut lost in the far reaches of...
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