HO
ME!
Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy are coming home!
They have been living in Germany for several years since a media firm there bought The Muppet Company from the originator Jim Henson's estate.
They paid around $680 million in cash plus some stock goodies in February 2000 and, now in 2003 members of the Henson family – five his children, in fact, have bought what is left of the company back. “Sesame Street” has been sold off previously. The purchase includes: The Muppets, The Muppet Babies, the Fraggles, The Hoobs, Farscape and the Bear in the Big Blue House.
EM-TV the Munich, Germany Tv operation which went under, had sold the “Sesame Street: rights for about 200-million it seems. Brian Henson, a brother and three sisters make up the new Henson ownership.
It seems particularly right that Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy and their friends and associates will come back to the land of their birth. Our entertainment treasures have been going overseas at far too rapid a rate in recent years. It is refreshing to find - even a portion of such a firm – coming back to the states. The deal still has to be approved of by the EM-TV stockholders in Munich at a meeting set for July 20th.
Of that list do you even remember the names of those other than Kermit and Miss Peggy?And, of course,, the Muppets. I did not, but now they, too, have a new chance to become well-known. Watch for the Fraggles, Farscape, The Hoobs, and the Bear in the Big Blue House. They are former residents to be returning from Germany and ready to move into our hearts and lives to join Miss Piggy, Kermit and the Muppets .
Watch for them! Welcome them all - back home once more!
A.L.M May 8, 2003 [c460wds]
