Henson fans will be pleased to hear that Apple TV+’s acquisition of the beloved ‘80s property Fraggle Rock won’t peak with the quarantine-proof Rock On! shorts of last year, and that the initially reported rebooted series will still go ahead. Even better, production is said to have now started in Canada!

After serving as writers on successful comedy shows such as American Dad!, Community, and New Girl, ‘Silly Creatures’ Matt Fusfeld & Alex Cuthbertson will be taking showrunner duties on the show which will see the return of all our favourites, with puppeteers John Tartaglia, Karen Prell, and Dave Goelz reprising Gobo, Red, and Boober respectively. (They might need a new Wembley however, as Steve Whitmore was fired from voicing Kermit the Frog after 27-years in 2017 over his frequent clashes with Disney over their direction of the Muppet characters. After seeing that dreadful ABC sitcom in 2015, he probably had a point.)

Expect more reports from Fraggle Rock as the production progresses. It may not be so easy to just ‘dance our cares away’ these days as the theme tune suggests, but a little bit of Muppets goes a long way during dark times like these.

What would you like to see from the series? Should each territory have a different lighthouse keeper like the original series? If so, who should man the post in the UK version? Remember when it was Damian from Brookside? That was weird. Let us know over on Twitter @STARBURST_Mag!