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Jim Henson Home Entertainment was the home video label of The Jim Henson Company. It first appeared in 1998 as the banner title for video releases of various Henson productions distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Video. The name continued to be used even as Henson changed distributors. Columbia TriStar first announced a video distribution deal with Henson in May 1998. The first releases from ...
The label moved to HIT Entertainment following the Henson family's repurchase of the Jim Henson Company from EM.TV & Merchandising and their five-year deal with HIT. Around 2009 or 2010, the Jim Henson Home Entertainment name was quietly retired, with the company now simply crediting itself on later home video releases.
Jim Henson Home Entertainment logo used since 2001. In 2000, the Henson family sold the company to the German media company EM.TV & Merchandising AG, for $680 million. That summer, EM.TV sold Henson's stakes in the Odyssey and Kermit cable channels in exchange for an 8.2% stake in Hallmark-controlled Crown Media Holdings.
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The Jim Henson Company has remained a leader in family entertainment for over 60 years and is recognized as an innovator in puppetry, animatronics, and digital animation. Henson’s most recent television credits include Duff’s Happy Fun Bake Time for discovery+, Earth to Ned for Disney+, Fraggle Rock: Rock On! for Apple TV+, and the Emmy ...
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When Sony distributed Jim Henson productions in 1997 under the home entertainment label, the dot sweeps out the word "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" instead of "PRODUCTIONS" (a.k.a Jim Henson Home Entertainment) on the full-version of the logo after the Kermit head was swallowed by the dot of light and buzzes around.
