I could be biased. I think that the Netflix Original Series are probably the best thing to happen to television. Ever. I mean, they gave us not only Stranger Things, OITNB, and Marco Polo, but they've given new life to things we loved as kids and teens like Voltron, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Fuller House, and Danger Mouse.
Well, look out. HBO has also taken notice that we're digging the old school and is hopping on that bandwagon too. And they're coming out with guns a-blazing with Fraggle Rock.
You heard me.
Those fuzzy singing cave-dwellers, who some joked ended the cold war (Fraggle Rock was the first American TV show broadcast in the Soviet Union), are coming back.
Granted, it won't be a new spin on the original - it will be the original series, HBO's very first original series, actually, which aired in five seasons between 1983 and 1987. The 96 episodes will be now fully remastered - unlike previously available streams on Hulu and Amazon Prime.
While it's disappointing that we won't see any new episodes, re-releasing the old series might be just the kick in the pants needed to get the long-stalled Fraggle Rock feature movie going again. Since 2005, The Weinstein Company and the Henderson Company have been promising a film that would take Gobo, Wembly, Mokey, Boober and Red on an adventure in "Outer Space" that would make Traveling Matt green with envy. But the scripts to date have been shelved as "not edgy enough" (whatever that means in a Muppet movie).
One would assume that the project has been mothballed, but every now and again there are rumblings. Last year, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was set to produce and star in the remake, and Brian Henson has for years maintained that the Fraggle Movie is still "in script development," even as recently as May 2015.
Whatever the case with the film, us former kids of the 80s will have a chance to introduce our own children to the original TV series that captured our hearts.
Let the music play!
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