Well, this certainly has the potential to be all kinds of brilliant.

Courtesy of Deadline, the iconic Neil Gaiman is bringing Jim Henson’s The Storyteller back to life.

That 1987 series from Henson used a wonderous mixture of people and puppets to showcase a slew of European folk tales of yesteryear. And now, Femantle is teaming with The Jim Henson Company and Neil Gaiman to deliver a new take on this old favourite. Gaiman will be writing and executive producing the series.

On this news, Gaiman enthused, “Part of what fascinates me about The Storyteller is the stuff that we don’t know. Who was the storyteller, why was he telling these stories, was he a goblin, what kind of creature? What I’d love to do is an inside story that’s as long as the outside story. We’re going to find out a lot about who the storyteller is, we’re going to find out things we don’t even know that we don’t know.”

The huge genre fave added, “The original Storyteller was a brilliantly written, directed and told set of stories. It’s a terrifying and inspiring task to reinvent what Jim Henson did the golden age of television we are in right now, and I’m honoured that The Jim Henson Company would entrust me with the task of bringing back the storyteller and his magical stories, and sending him out into the world for a whole new round of tales.”

As ever, expect more on The Storyteller as it continues to develop.

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