Another project we hadn't heard much about since we screened the trailer at the April Web TV Meetup, but today the first episode (above) of The Jim Henson Company's S.U.D.S. (Simian Undercover Detective Squad) was released on YouTube. The series was produced by Henson Alternative along with Warner Bros. Studio 2.0 arm, which has turned out series like Viralcom and most of the WB.com original series including Childrens' Hospital and Sorority Forever. The 15-episode series is the first original web series involving Henson's signature style of puppets to come of of the famed Muppets studio. Even though the company sold the rights to the Muppets characters to Disney back in 2004, there's still a fair amount of original puppeteering coming out of the company. For S.U.D.S., two new characters, Yeager and Skreet, are introduced as a pair of less-than stellar detectives, who also happen to be monkeys. I caught up with Henson's VP of New Media,...
- 8/25/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
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