Eleanor is a writer living and working in Naarm, Australia. She enjoys writing about film and TV, with a special interest in outdated fashion, pretty things, and absolute stupidity. The late, great ...

Although The Muppet Show was set in a New York theater, the series was actually shot in Britain since no American production companies bought into the idea. But Sir Lew Grade was willing to give Jim ...

There's never been a creative artist quite like Jim Henson. The Mississippi-born Henson was arguably the world's most famous puppeteer, but he was much more than that. A cartoonist, actor, inventor, ...

Legendary filmmaker Orson Welles was certainly onto something when he claimed Sesame Street was the greatest thing to happen to television. Populated by a menagerie of Muppets created by Jim Henson, ...