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Netflix has cancelled the star-studded fantasy series Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance after one season.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorThere will be no Season 2 for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Netflix confirmed the cancellation Monday of Jim Henson’s epic fantasy adventure series — a prequel to the original 1982 film — just hours after the series’ win this weekend at the Creative Arts Emmys for Outstanding Children’s Program.“We can confirm that there will not be an additional season of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance,” said Lisa Henson, executive producer.

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance has officially been cancelled after only one season at Netflix.

Will Thorne Staff Writer“The Dark Crystal” will not live to see another season.Netflix has canceled the fantasy puppet series after only a single season, Variety has confirmed.The show was a prequel series to the original 1982 Jim Henson film, which tells the story of a group of young Gelflings who discover that their overlords — the evil, hideous Skeksis — are duplicitous and plan to consume their subjects’ life energy via the dark crystal in order to fuel their own.More to come…

Sue Nichols Maciorowski was an animation artist who worked on beloved Disney films including “The Lion King,” “Mulan,” and “Hercules.”Maciorowski began her career in animation while she was still in college, working as a model designer for Jim Henson’s (1936 – 1990) “Muppet Babies” as part of a team that won an Emmy Award. She got her start with Disney in 1991 with “Beauty and the Beast,” for which she was a visual development artist.

Everything to Know About Disney+ Remember the short-lived 2015 ABC series The Muppets? Jim Henson's gang of goofs returned to television with a more adult-oriented sitcom, and some people hated it. They didn't want to see Kermit and Ko.

Guitar, beer cans, a lighthouse, Elvis Presley and Kermit the Frog have all been proposed to adorn the new flag of a US state.

It was inevitable that Disney+ would try something with The Muppets. Few entertainment franchises are more beloved than Jim Henson’s troupe of felt eccentrics.

The most wonderful thing about Muppets is that they can go anywhere and do anything. Over the years, Jim Henson's felt creations have committed elaborate capers, hobnobbed with the biggest and most obscure of celebrities, become embedded in classic works of literature and even gone into space.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Unto most every TV-watching generation, a new Muppets show is born. The original “Muppet Show,” which ran from 1976 to 1981, had Jim Henson’s felt puppets take over a vaudeville theatre to perform songs, slapstick sketches and more unabashedly cheesy puns than its bewildered guests could count.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticUnto most every TV-watching generation, a new Muppets show is born. The original “Muppet Show,” which ran from 1976 to 1981, had Jim Henson’s felt puppets take over a vaudeville theater to perform songs, slapstick sketches and more unabashedly cheesy puns than its bewildered guests could count.

LOS ANGELES -- From a godfather of cinema to Kermit the Frog, the U.S. government’s small-business lending program sent money into unexpected corners of the entertainment industry.

If you’re a genre fan – shoot, if you’re a fan of quality television – and skipped watching the Netflix mini-series “Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance” you’ve made a very silly mistake. The long-awaited return to the world of the original 1982 fantasy film “The Dark Crystal” is not only gorgeous and captivating but a rare prequel where you become invested in the characters.

Scott Derrickson recently stepped away from one high-profile sequel, “Doctor Strange Into the Multiverse of Madness,’ and has found his way to another. Except for this time, the filmmaker is trading in superheroes for muppets, for a sequel to “Labyrinth.” READ MORE: The Movies That Changed My Life: ‘Doctor Strange’ And ‘Bermuda’ Director Scott Derrickson According to Deadline, Derrickson has signed on to direct a sequel to Jim Henson’s “Labyrinth,” written by Maggie Levin.

By Mike Fleming Jr

“Fraggle Rock” is pulling out all the stops for the season finale of “Fraggle Rock: Rock On!” on Apple TV+.

It's about to be a very busy week at Fraggle Rock. The Apple TV+ reboot of the Jim Henson classic is planning to wind-down its current season with visits from a bunch of your favorite singers.

By Dade Hayes

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Apple is bringing back “Fraggle Rock.”

Fraggle Rock is back! The beloved '80s series from Jim Henson's amazing imagination is now returning with new episodes on Apple TV+ for a whole new generation to enjoy. Better still, the new series, titled Fraggle Rock: Rock On! will be free to stream.

By Joe Otterson

As the group’s resident polymath, Terry Jones enjoyed a varied and successful career after Monty Python’s split in 1983.