Jim Henson, DECODE in Co-Pro for New 3-D Series

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO: The Jim Henson Company and DECODE Entertainment have teamed up to co-produce 26 half-hour episodes of a new 3-D animated series, The Doozers, based on the industrious characters from Fraggle Rock.

Targeted at 4- to 7-year-olds, The Doozers is in advanced stages of development and will be produced in Canada to broadcast in fall 2010. The Jim Henson Company will license The Doozers to the U.S. market, and handle all consumer products licensing and merchandising globally. DECODE Enterprises will handle international distribution of the series.

"Who could forget the industrious little Doozers who wore hard hats as they cheerfully labored alongside the Fraggles, building scaffolds composed of ‘Doozer sticks’ made of ‘radish dust’?," commented by Halle Stanford, the executive VP of children’s entertainment for The Jim Henson Company. "Now, the Doozers’ are back to inspire kids to make the world a better place by making smart, ecofriendly choices, and by inventing tools, gadgets, buildings, structures, and other technology that supports the environment’s ecology."