Television Series
Fraggle Rock was one of the first shows to be co-produced by HIT Entertainment since its founding in 1989, when it was called Henson International Television, the international arm of Jim Henson Productions and Deluxe Digital Studios. It was a co-production between British regional ITV franchise holder Television South (TVS), CBC Television, United States pay-television service Home Box Office and Henson Associates (later Jim Henson Productions), the show was filmed on a Toronto sound stage, (later at Elstree Studios, London). The avant-garde poet bpNichol worked as one of the show's writers. In the early days of development, the script called Fraggles "Woozles" pending the devising of a more suitable name.
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