That Puppet Game Show
- TV variety / sitcom
- BBC One
- 2013 - 2014
- 8 episodes (1 series)
Family friendly entertainment series featuring puppets from The Jim Henson Company. Part game-show, part sitcom, wholly madcap.
Press clippings Page 3
That Puppet Game Show: Do we need it?
There's no way I would watch next week. Saturday Night TV is in perpetual crisis but I'd just quit now if this is the best they can do.
Victoria Prior, The Custard TV, 10th August 2013Welcome to the house of fun
Series producer Jamie Ormerod, who has been working closely on the concept for the show with The Jim Henson Company, says it's exciting to see it come together after two years in the pipeline.
Kirsty Nutkins, The Daily Express, 10th August 2013Move over Miss Piggy: New 'Muppets' take over BBC1
The seeds of the series lie in Puppet Up!, an improvised 2006 Edinburgh Festival show staged by Brian Henson, who inherited the puppeteering business from his father Jim Henson, who died in 1990.
Adam Sherwin, The Independent, 9th August 2013That Puppet Game Show: Night of the living thread
Singing sausages, a crab called Clyde, a cow with an enigmatic private life... it's the weird world of That Puppet Game Show.
Olly Grant, The Telegraph, 9th August 2013This is what we call That Puppet Game Show
The successor to The Muppet Show will see celebrities battling it out in bizarre challenges to win £10,000 for charity.
The Guardian, 9th August 2013Q&A with That Puppet Games Show host Dougie Colon
That Puppet Games Show host Dougie Colon (pronounced Cologne) answers some questions.
The Independent, 9th August 2013BBC confirms new comedy That Puppet Game Show
More details have been revealed about new BBC and Jim Henson Company series That Puppet Game Show, involving both game and sitcom elements.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd May 2013Jim Henson Company working on new BBC series
The BBC is working on a new entertainment series with the creators of The Muppet Show, The Jim Henson Company.
British Comedy Guide, 1st March 2012