Something cool I just ran across: Muppets for adults (and no, this isn’t Meet the Feebles…). Apparently the Jim Henson company is creating a new show featuring a homesexual couple: a pig and a bull.
The puppet sitcom centers around a homosexual couple – Bobby Vegan (a pig) and Samson Knight (a bull) – as they work to balance their careers, relationship, family and lives in Hollywood. Bobby is a struggling entertainer whose best days are probably behind him. He is a very outspoken individual, and occasionally finds himself in embarrassing situations due to reckless “self-medicating” to deal with stressful situations. Luckily, his understanding and supportive life-partner and soul mate Samson, who also happens to be Bobby’s manager, is there for every storm. These two puppets also have family issues to deal with, as the couple has a 13-year-old human foster son named Foster. There are also issues with Lena, an ex-wife; and Arturo, a limo driver and masseuse. Everyone in the show is a real person except for Bobby and Samson – those two are puppets.
Sounds to me like it could be a lot of fun. It’s on a cable channel I’ve never heard of (but then, I don’t have cable, so that’s no big surprise), but perhaps it’ll start turning up on the bittorrent networks once it starts broadcasting. Worth keeping an eye out for, at least.
Not surprisingly, it’s on the Logo network. This is the largest (of two) US station targeting the LGBT demographic. From Wikipedia:
“Logo is an American digital cable television channel owned by Viacom’s MTV Networks division. Targeting programming aimed at the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, it launched on June 30, 2005.”