Dot is about an inquisitive and exuberant 8-year-old who embarks on hilarious adventures and who fearlessly sets about solving problems...problems she most likely created herself. For a girl as energetic as Dot, there’s no better way to spend the day than outside, exploring the world with her best friends, Hal, Ruby, Nev, Dev, and her best dog, Scratch.
Join her as she conquers each new challenge the same way any 8-year-old would - by messing up a lot and laughing even more. This is an animated series targeted at 4-7 year olds that aims to inspire learning and creative exploration while modeling how technology can be used as a tool to enhance real world experiences. Dot., the award-winning animated children's television series that models positive digital citizenship is now available to view for FREE on Jim Henson's Family Hub on YouTube, the kids-safe channel that showcases The Jim Henson Company's beloved catalog of children's programming.
A true child of the 21st century, tech-savvy and exuberant Dot sets out on hilarious adventures to satisfy
her limitless curiosity about the world around her, following her latest passion with her dog, friends, and
any piece of technology that will help enhance their play and exploration. Premiering in 2016, the series
won several awards including a Kidscreen Award for Best New Series, a Parents’ Choice Award – Silver
Medal, a Common Sense Media 5-star rating, and a Roger’s Prize/BANFF Media Festival Excellence in
Canadian Content Award, among others. Jim Henson’s Family Hub on YouTube features full episodes of popular Henson shows like Pajanimals, The
Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, The Hoobs, Mother Goose Stories and more along with weekly clips from
iconic Henson titles like Fraggle Rock, Sid the Science Kid, Word Party and Dinosaur Train. And now Dot. joins the Jim Henson's Family Hub on YouTube lineup of edutainment shows.
To highlight this exciting news about Dot. I have some picture books to giveaway courtesy of The Jim Henson Company. This book features the girl who loves technology; but also knows when it is time to unplug.
For a chance to get a FREEDot. book, just complete an entry in the rafflecopter form below before 11:59 pm on May 18, 2023. Must be a United States resident over 18 years old to participate. The Jim Henson Company is responsible for delivery of prizes to the entrants randomly selected by ageekdaddy.com. Good luck!
The Jim Henson Company is reaching out to fans of The Dark Crystal to enter the “Design a New Creature for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance" online contest. Entrants should draw, by hand or digitally, an original creature concept for the world of The
Dark Crystal. The
winner will be awarded $500 and their concept design will be crafted
and built by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop™ to make a possible
cameo appearance in the upcoming Netflix original series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
Visit
DarkCrystal.com to read contest rules and guidelines and review all the background
materials, descriptions, and history needed to create a submission.
Entries must be received no later than November 22nd, 2017 at 11:59 PM EST. Contest judges
will include the Froud family — Brian, Wendy, and Toby Froud. Brian and
Wendy were key designers and artists in the original film and their son
Toby joins them in their work on the upcoming series.
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance returns
to the world of Thra with an all new adventure.
When three Gelfling discover the horrifying secret behind the Skeksis’
power, they set out on an epic journey to ignite the fires of rebellion
and save their world. Feature film director Louis Leterrier (Now You See Me, The Incredible Hulk) will executive produce the series and direct.
The Dark Crystal: Age of
Resistance will be a Netflix original series produced by The Jim
Henson Company and executive produced by Letterier, Lisa Henson, and
Halle Stanford. Longtime Henson collaborator Rita Peruggi will serve as
producer and Henson’s Blanca Lista will serve
as a co-executive producer. Leading the writing are co-executive
producers Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews (Life in a Year), and Javier Grillo-Marxuach (Lost, The 100).
The Jim Henson Company, producers of the animated PBS Kids television series Dinosaur Train, want to help keep children exploring and learning over the summer break. So this summer they've launched a ten week series of activities called the Nature Trackers Summer Challenge to help parents keep children engaged in learning throughout their break from school. Beginning June 20th, each week will have a different theme starting with STARGAZING WEEK and be tied to a special episode airing on PBS. Future themes include birds, insects and volcanoes, among other topics.
Here's a look at the list of the Nature Trackers Summer Challenge's first group of activities for STARGAZING WEEK:
WATCH - Dinosaur Train: Remember the Alamosaurus / Sunrise , Sunset on PBS. In this episode Dad takes the Pteranodon kids on an overnight camping trip where they watch both a sunrise and a sunset learning that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. The kids also find out more about nocturnal (night-active) animals and diurnal (day-active) animals. If you miss this episode airing on television, CLICK HERE to watch it online via Watch Cartoons Online at your own convenience. Dinosaur Train episodes can also be streamed via Hulu, Netflix and YouTube.
For a complete list of challenges, visit the Nature Trackers page on PBS Parents! As your kids participate in the Dinosaur Train Nature Trackers Summer Challenge share your experiences by posting your stories and photos at the Henson Family Hub on Facebook and Twitter using the hashtag #NatureTrackers.
There is a new Humble Bundle that celebrates the magic and wonder of Jim Henson's imagination and creations. The Humble Jim Henson: The Jim Henson Company Comics Bundle provides the opportunity for people to enjoy Boom Studios print portrayals of puppets that have been beloved by generations of fans. You can name your price to purchase a basic bundle of The Dark Crystal and Fraggle Rock digital comic books. HumbleBundle.com
allows consumers to purchase a bundle of video games or digital publications
for any price they choose with that money being split three ways amongst a designated charity, the publisher, and
the website. The focus of these bundles is normally to raise awareness and funding for charities, in this particular case it being the Center for Puppetry Arts.
In 1978, Kermit the Frog and Jim Henson cut the
ribbon to open the Center for Puppetry Arts. Since then, the Center has
inspired generations of children and adults through our performances,
educational workshops, and exhibitions.
The Center uses the art form of puppetry as a
means to provide educational experiences that encourage creativity,
support school-day learning, fuel holistic development, and provide
accessible, hands-on opportunities to participate in arts activities.
The Center’s live puppetry performances,
hands-on workshops, and guided museum tours provide creative arts
experiences to students that aren’t available in classrooms while also
providing teachers with opportunities to infuse the arts into their
curriculum goals. The Center for Puppetry Arts is opening a new museum space this year which will
feature expanded exhibit areas for both its Global Collection and the
Jim Henson Collection. This new space will provide immersive and
interactive, exhibitions allowing guests of all ages to explore puppetry in unique
ways, challenging preconceptions and giving a new appreciation of the
global scope and universal power of the art form. As part of this
project, the Center will be protecting and preserving hundreds of international
and Henson treasures for future generations to enjoy and understand.
If you spend more than the average amount people are paying for the basic bundle, you will get some extra bonus e-books added to your shopping cart which include Jim Henson's The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow and The Storyteller comic books and novelizations of Storyteller and Labyrinth.
Additionally, if you spend $2 more than the average amount spent on the basic bundle, the graphic novel Jim Henson's Tale of Sand will be thrown into your package as an extra thank you. Discovered in the Archives of the The Jim Henson Company, A Tale of Sand
is an original graphic novel adaptation of an unproduced,
feature-length screenplay written by Jim Henson and his frequent writing
partner, Jerry Juhl. A Tale of Sand follows scruffy everyman, Mac, who
wakes up in an unfamiliar town, and is chased across the desert of the
American Southwest by all manners of man and beast of unimaginable
proportions. A Tale
of Sand will allow Henson fans to recognize some of the inspirations and
set pieces that eventually appeared in later Henson Company productions.
These digital comic books are DRM-free which means that they aren't tied
to a particular website or computer program to be able to read.
Download them onto whatever device you want and read them at your
convenience where and when you want. I've heard that accessing these
comics works great from a PC or laptop but some people have had
difficulties with them on smart phones and tablets. Here's a hint...download these files to your PC, save them as .pdf and upload to your mobile device by dropbox. Voila! that has worked every time for me!
This deal, like all Humble Bundles is for a limited time so if you are a fan of Jim Henson's work beware because if you snooze you'll loose and this offer will be gone. Check out the clock in the top right corner of Humble Bundle deals right under the green Pay What You Want box to check out how much time is left before an offer expires.
Sid, the inquisitive preschooler who has a popular 1/2 hour television show on PBS where he and his friends engage in scientific and educational themed adventures is getting his own feature length movie. SID THE SCIENCE KID: THE MOVIE will be airing on Monday, March 25 on PBS stations across the United States and than will be available for purchase on DVD and via iTunes on April 2, 2013. CLICK HERE to check out when the movie will be broadcast by your local PBS affiliate.
While most of the Sid the Science Kid tv series episodes are based at Sid's preschool or home, the movie takes the adventure on the road. Sid wins a contest and gets to go for a VIP tour of the Super Ultimate Science Museum along with his friend Gabriela who he picks to tag along with him on the trip. When they get to the museum their tour is led by a scientist named Dr. Bonabodon, voiced by the man who set the standard for crazy scientist characters in movies Back to the Future's Christopher Lloyd, and his robotic tour guides. From their hijinks and adventure ensue!
Check out this preview from the movie:
PBS has a nice web site section for parents that gives an overview of Sid the Science Kid: The Movie and provides some interesting tips and tools to use for interacting with your kids to increase the fun and educational value of watching the movie together. It shows you how to make a marshmallow catapult and a robot from recycled materials. It also provides a fun coloring sheet for your kids. Visit www.pbs.org/parents/sid-the-science-kid-the-movieto download the info.I know we'll be trying out this catapult idea and tuning in to the movie at our house next week!
My generation grew up watching Neil Patrick Harris as Doogie Howser and Jim Henson’s Muppets on television. Things are a little different now with Harris’s
breakout role being the womanizer Barney Stinson on the CBS comedy “How I Met
Your Mother” and the Jim Henson Company has a division called “Henson
Alternative” that provides puppet productions for “adult” entertainment. This transition has led us now to Neil Patrick Harris and Henson Alternative teaming up with the Nerdist youtube channel to create a new edgy puppet
show that you definitely shouldn’t watch with your kids – but which is a hilarious time
out for us grownups.
NEIL’s PUPPET DREAMS takes you into the mind of Neil Patrick
Harris when he falls asleep. In the
show, his “dreams” all take place in a puppet world, animated by the Jim Henson
Company, and involve raunchy humor, sex jokes, and slapstick antics. New episodes are posted on Tuesdays by the
Nerdist Channel that can be viewed via youtube:
In 2004, the Jim Henson Company sold the rights to the Muppets
to the Walt Disney Company, who now own all Muppet-related trademarks including
the word “Muppet.” Henson has been
working to continue its puppetry and animation history by developing new brands
to entertain both children and adults.
For younger audiences they have reinvigorated Fraggle Rock and created
new shows such as Dinosaur Train, Sid the Science Kid, Pajaminals, Unstable Fables, and TheDoozers. They’ve also expanded with “Henson
Alternative” to utilize puppetry to provide mature comedy content to audiences
who grew up watching Sesame Street. They
have produced Puppet Up! – Uncensored
a live improv show which has also been
featured on a television special and web-series on TBS.com. During the 2012 elections, Henson Alternative
was the puppet master behind the third-party presidential candidacy of Marvin
E. Quasniki ( which I wrote about in an earlier post ) the Turquoise farmer from
Tonopah, Nevada.
Now, Henson Alternatives has teamed up with Neil Patrick
Harris, who displays his Harold & Kumar side in this production, and The
Nerdist (which features all things involving geeky entertainment through their website
Nerdist.com, a premium YouTube channel (youtube.com/nerdist),
the Nerdist News daily e-newsletters, 1.7 million Twitter fans and a podcast
network which is also produced as a TV show on BBC America) for this wacky
carnival side show of a web-series called NEIL’S PUPPET DREAMS. Check out this episode which features Neil
falling asleep at a diner and how the puppets take over the joint in his
dreams:
If you enjoy old-school Eddie Murphy standup and Three
Stooges comedy skits than you’ll probably get a chuckle from this new
puppet-based web show. I just wouldn’t
watch it with the kids around!
