NBC Buys Jim Henson Cos Hybrid Human-Puppet Family Comedy

Round the eve in the new Muppets movie opening on Wednesday, the Jim Henson Co. provides another hybrid human-puppet project, this time around around on primetime TV. NBC has closed a script deal for your New Nabors, a comedy of a human family as well as the effects they encounter living next door from the household of puppets. NBC, clearly, had success inside the human-puppet family sitcom arena with Alf inside the late eighties. Feature author John Hoffman (Fox 2000′s Afterlife) and 30 Rock executive producer John Riggi will write the script for your New Nabors, they developed with Lisa Henson as well as the Jim Henson Co. (I hear the spelling in the show’s title is certainly an homage to actor-singer Jim Nabors.) Lisa Henson, Hoffman and Riggi are executive creating, with longtime Henson producer Alex Rockwell also attached. CAA-repped Hoffman and UTA-repped Riggi are addressed by Anonymous. Puppets are actually in the major broadcast systems for a while, with Fox’s underrated single-camera comedy Greg The Bunny because the latest example.