Lionsgate Signs Home-Entertainment Deal with Henson

SANTA MONICA: Through a new multi-year home-entertainment distribution agreement, Lionsgate takes on the North American rights to more than 350 hours of content from The Jim Henson Company.

The deal covers The Jim Henson Company’s film and TV library, including television series, specials and catalogue-home entertainment titles for DVD, EST and VOD channels. The first new titles scheduled to be released are Fraggle Rock: The Complete Final Season (season four) and Fraggle Rock: A Merry Fraggle Holiday in November.

"The Jim Henson Company has an incredibly rich legacy of properties," said Anne Parducci, Lionsgate’s executive VP of marketing and family entertainment. "The company’s works are beloved by fans both old and young and we relish the opportunity to be able to bring properties like Fraggle Rock and Emmet Otter into the home. Adding The Jim Henson Company name to our extensive family library is a major coup for us. We look forward to a long and successful partnership." 

"Lionsgate has already proven itself to be a terrific distributor of favorites like Fraggle Rock and Emmet Otter’s Jug-band Christmas, demonstrating the creativity and care these titles deserve and our fans expect," added Peter Schube, the president and COO of The Jim Henson Company. "We are looking forward to collaborating with them to release more classic titles as well as to introduce lesser-known gems from the company’s library to our audience."