Farscape cast, creators reunite to celebrate DVD - Comic-Con Report
It's hard to believe the live-action-meets-puppeteering sci-fi series Farscape is a decade old, but that's the occasion that brought Brian Henson and stars of the show to Comic-Con International Friday to announce a new complete series DVD set.As unveiled to a full, if partially groggy Comic-Con crowd during one of the day's first events, the DVD collection will include every episode of the show, more than 90 minutes of extra footage and 29 episode commentaries.
Henson joined series creator Rockne O'Bannon with stars Ben Browder and Claudia Black to unveil the comprehensive set of the show Henson repeatedly referred to during the panel as "psychotically ambitious" because of its mix of live-action, muppet technology, and then-state-of-the-art visual effects.
The Farscape panel also offered Henson a chance to buzz the muppet-friendly crowd on a couple of other franchises hitting the big screen in 2011.
The project with the TV pedigree (since this is TV Squad) is Fraggle Rock. Henson didn't go into details after the roof blew off the joint, but he assured the crowd it was on schedule. The Power of The Dark Crystal (a follow-up to the dark 1980s muppet fantasy project) will accompany the Fraggles into theaters in a couple of years.
Before wrapping up, Henson and O'Bannon got back to the subject at hand for the panel and revealed that webisodes were in the works to keep Farscape fresh for fans in the future.

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