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Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge
Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge
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Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge

7.9 / 10
2014
1 season
8 episodes
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Ten aspiring creature creators competing to out-imagine one another in a series of challenges where they build everything from mechanical characters to whimsical beasts, bringing high-end creature designs to life. The contestants compete for a prize worth up to $100,000 including the opportunity for the job of a lifetime - a contract working at the world-renowned Jim Henson’s Creature Shop™.

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Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge Syfy Season 1 Trailer

Cast

Brian Henson

Gigi Edgley

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Beth Hathaway

Kirk R. Thatcher

Seasons

  • What Lies Beneath

    1.What Lies Beneath

    7.7
    25-03-201460m

    Brian Henson welcomes 10 talented creature designers to Jim Henson Studios for their first Creature Brief: design and build an original underwater creature for a screen test on the...

  • Return of the Skeksis

    2.Return of the Skeksis

    8.0
    01-04-201460m

    The creature designers are given the chance to reimagine the fictional species Skeksis from "The Dark Crystal." Later, their characters appear in a screen test for the original 198...

  • Assembly Inspired

    3.Assembly Inspired

    8.0
    08-04-201460m

    Unconventional materials from a junkyard are used to create scrap-fantasy creatures that are trapped inside a hanging cage.

  • Heads Up!

    4.Heads Up!

    8.0
    15-04-201460m

    A humor-filled challenge requires the designers to create mounted creature heads that magically come to life under the spell of a wizard played by Donald Faison.

  • Life in Motion

    5.Life in Motion

    9.0
    22-04-201460m

    An appearance by Lady Gaga's unicorn inspires the creature designers to create a larger-than-life creation with realistic movement, performed on a blacklight soundstage.

  • Swamp Things

    6.Swamp Things

    9.0
    29-04-201460m

    The designers make camouflaged creatures hiding in plain sight for a mystical swamp-theme challenge. Neville Page ("Face Off") serves as guest judge.

  • Alien Press Conference

    7.Alien Press Conference

    9.5
    06-05-201460m

    Gigi brings her "Farscape" costar Rygel to the workshop to offer inspiration when the creature designers are given the task to build original alien species attending an intergalact...

  • Tavern at the Crossroads

    8.Tavern at the Crossroads

    9.0
    13-05-201460m

    The final three receive help from contestants who were previously eliminated as they face their toughest challenge, which is to design, build and perform a full-body mystical creat...

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