Shout It Out! Shout! Factory Signs Deal With The Jim Henson Company To Release ‘Farscape’ And Other Titles
Shout! Factory is bringing some of Jim Henson’s best series and specials to a streaming platform near you.
Deadline reports that The Jim Henson Company has signed a deal with Shout! that will bring thirteen of Henson’s beloved series and specials to streaming, broadcast and home entertainment platforms globally. This includes Henson’s Emmy-nominated sci-fi drama series Farscape, which will make its world AVOD premiere.
The original series ran from 1999-2003, and followed American astronaut John Crichton (Ben Browder) who found himself catapulted across the universe by an errant wormhole, only to find a new life and family aboard the living prison ship Moya.
In addition to Farscape and its follow-up miniseries Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, the multi-year distribution deal provides Shout! Factory TV, its streaming service, the worldwide rights over all platforms for shows like Henson’s Emmy-winning fantasy anthology The Storyteller and The Storyteller: Greek Myths mini-series as well.
Also included in the deal are such classics as Jim Henson’s World of Puppetry, Monster Maker, Lighthouse Island, Living with Dinosaurs, Dog City and Ghost of Faffner Hall, along with later productions like The Fearing Mind, Mopatop’s Shop and Brats of the Lost Nebula.
Shout! Factory will support each one of these projects with a long-term growth strategy that entails streaming media initiatives, content syndication (digital, EST, VOD and broadcast), and packaged media (Blu-ray/DVD).
Shout! Factory will leverage extensive access to archived content from The Jim Henson Company. Further news as to The Jim Henson Company’s initiatives with Shout! Factory and Shout! Factory TV will be forthcoming.
“FAST Channels are the wave of the future in terms of getting your content front and center for both devoted fans and new audiences,” said The Jim Henson Company’s Vice President of Global Distribution, Kerry Novick in a statement. “Shout! Factory is one of the best in this business, and audiences will enjoy watching beloved Henson productions, like The Storyteller, as well as discovering new favorites through this partnership,” Novick said.
The Henson Company is also collaborating with Blumhouse Pictures on a project that may be an adaptation of the creepy videogame Five Nights at Freddy’s, speculates slashfilm.com. No official confirmation either way was available at press time.