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YouTube launches subscription service with 'Sesame Street,' UFC
YouTube unveiled its much-anticipated subscription service Thursday with such recognizable entertainment brands as "Sesame Street," "Jim Henson Family TV" and the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The Internet's dominant online video site, whose content...Tags: Ultimate Fighting Championship, Media Industry, Computer Networking and Internet, Entertainment, Television Industry
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TV review: Amazon for kids safe but restrained
Amazon is smart to aim almost half of its pilot slate — six of the 14 shows it's put up for public perusal — at kids. Today's toddlers are tomorrow's Amazon Wish List sharers at holiday time. And busy parents looking for relief don't care...
Tags: Tameka Cottle, Music, Preschools, J.J. Johnson, Science and Technology
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Introduce your kids to Captain Noah
Lehigh Valley ParentingFor those of us who grew up learning to "Sing a Rainbow" with Captain and Mrs. Noah on the long-running children's show “Captain Noah and His Magical Ark,” you can share your memories with the next generation at Please Touch Museum in... -
Jane Henson, Muppets collaborator, dies at 78
Jane Nebel Henson, who collaborated with her husband, Jim Henson, in creating, designing and marketing the Muppets, died Tuesday at her home in Connecticut after battling cancer. She was 78. Her death was announced by the Jim Henson Co. The couple met...Tags: Washington, DC, Obituaries, The Muppet Show (tv program)
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Jane Nebel Henson dies at 78; partner with Jim Henson in Muppets
Jane Nebel Henson knew Kermit before he was the Frog, saw the Cookie Monster before he lost his "fiendish" teeth and was around for the pre-diva days of Miss Piggy. Henson, the wife and longtime artistic collaborator of legendary Muppets creator Jim...
Tags: Sesame Street (tv program), Queens (New York City), Arts and Culture, John Henson, Washington, DC
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Jane Henson dies: Muppets collaborator and widow of Jim Henson was 78
Pop2itThe widow of Jim Henson diedTuesday, following a battle with cancer. Jane Henson met her future husband in a puppetry class in the 1950s.... -
‘Pirates,’ ‘Muppets’ sequel news: Disney release date update
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comOK, movie fans. Disney would like you to update your moviegoing calendar for 2014 and beyond. In a bit of ...... -
VOD Spotlight: Seth MacFarlane’s “Ted” influenced by Muppets
Channel Guide MagazineSeth MacFarlane has had such a visible presence in recent years with his animated series Family Guy, The Cleveland Show and American Dad! that it was only a matter of time before his producing/writing talents would spill over onto the big screen. Fans... -
Choosing books for the holidays
Inevitably this holiday season, my mom will tick through her shopping list and say with a sigh, "Your dad wants a book." Since I was a kid, my mom has teased my dad about the predictablity of this ritual, which usually involves the purchase of a brick-...
Tags: Literature, Music, Chicago Stories (tv program), Music Industry, Libraries
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'Charlie Brown and the Great Exhibit': Good, not great, grief
"Charlie Brown and the Great Exhibit" is a big, reasonably well-stuffed celebration of one of the great achievements in American popular culture, the "Peanuts" newspaper comic strip by lachrymose Minnesotan Charles Schulz. In section after section of...
Tags: Holidays, Charles M. Schulz, A Charlie Brown Christmas (tv program), Cartoons, Arts and Culture
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Puppets behaving badly in 'Stuffed and Unstrung'
You'd think that in the presence of puppets — near Muppets, really — associated with the legendary creator of Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, audiences would behave themselves, if only in deference to their innocent childhoods. You'd think....
Tags: Rahm Emanuel, TBS (tv network), Frank Oz, Patrick Bristow, Entertainment
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Jerry Nelson dies at 78; puppeteer voiced Count von Count
Jerry Nelson, the puppeteer best known for giving voice to Count von Count, the silly but instructional vampire mathematician on television's "Sesame Street," died Thursday at his home in Cape Cod, Mass., the Sesame Workshop announced. He was 78....
Tags: Sesame Street (tv program), Politics, Music Theater, Detroit Free Press, Music
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Jan 14, 2013
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Dec 11, 2012
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Dec 1, 2012
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Nov 7, 2012
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Jun 13, 2012
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Aug 27, 2012
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