Me and My Monsters

Me and My Monsters is an upcoming live-action television series from the Jim Henson Company. 26 30-minute episodes are currently in pre-production in Sydney, Australia with productions scheduled for early summer 2010. The Jim Henson Company and Tiger Aspect Productions are working in partnership with Australia’s Sticky Pictures on this UK/Australian co-production.

The series was created by Mark Grant and will feature human actors alongside the three monsters (puppets developed by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop).

The series is being Executive Produced by Tiger Aspect's Greg Brenman and Rebecca de Souza, The Jim Henson Company's Lisa Henson and Halle Stanford, and Sticky Pictures's Donna Andrews. Sticky Pictures and Baker/Coogan Productions will produce.

The series is being writteb by Mark Grant, Larry Rickard, George Sawyer, Huckerbee and Ostler, Tom Basden, Sam Leifer and James Bachman.

The series has been commissioned by BBC-CBBC in the UK, ZDF (Germany) and Network Ten and Nickelodeon Australia. Distribution is being handled by BBC Worldwide.

Show summary
""Me and My Monsters" tells the story o f the Carlson family who have recently relocated from Australia to the UK to discover there are three out of control and hilarious monsters living in their basement. For ten-year old Eddie Carlson, these houseguests are the best three friends a kid could have, but they are also three more rowdy kids for Eddie’s working Mom, a constant source of chaos and stress for his highly-strung Dad and an ongoing embarrassment for his teenage sister."