Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Spock and the Puppets Take Back the Bridge (S4, E5) | Paramount+
After a disastrous transporter experiment turns most of the crew into puppets, Orion pirates take the opportunity to storm the Enterprise. It’s up to Spock (Ethan Peck) and the rest of the crew to retake command! Season 4, Episode 5: Level-Five Transporter Accident
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Things are about to get REALLY weird on this week’s brand new episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, even by the standards of this series. The ship is thrown into chaos this week when the transporters go haywire, turning everyone into cute little puppets. “Level-Five Transporter Accident” streams this Thursday, August 20 on Paramount+ and today we’re taking a closer look with a brand new synopsis and episode stills.
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We have another very brief synopsis for this week’s episode, written by Henry Alonso Myers & Dana Horgan and directed by Jordan Canning, which reads:
A transporter malfunction turns most of the crew into puppets while Spock fights to reclaim the ship.
Take a look at all the images from “Level-Five Transporter Accident” below, courtesy of Get Your Comic On. Make sure and let us know in the comments what you think of the beautiful puppetry which was masterminded by The Jim Henson Company.
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Season four stars Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, Babs Olusanmokun and Martin Quinn, along with guest stars Carol Kane and Paul Wesley.
The series is produced by CBS Studios, Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment.
Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers serve as co-showrunners. Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers, Aaron Baiers, Dana Horgan, Alan McElroy, Robbie Thompson, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Chris Fisher, Anson Mount, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth serve as season four executive producers.
All three seasons of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds are available to binge on Paramount+ globally. The series is also available on SkyShowtime in select regions.
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Season Four Episode to Boldly Explore the Puppet-Verse Featuring
Puppets Created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop
Fans Surprised with Secret Screening Of
Season Three Episode “A Space Adventure Hour”
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July 26, 2025 – Paramount+ today announced that season four of its hit original series STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS will feature a puppet themed episode, featuring U.S.S. Enterprise crew members as puppets created by the iconic Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. The episode is directed by Jordan Canning (Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock).
The reveal was made during today’s STAR TREK universe presentation in Hall H at Comic-Con® International in San Diego, CA. Moderated by STAR TREK legend Robert Picardo, the STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS panel portion featured a conversation with co-showrunners and executive producers Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers, executive producer Alex Kurtzman, and cast members Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Chong and Paul Wesley.
In addition, the Hall H audience was treated to a surprise advance screening of the series’ upcoming new episode, “A Space Adventure Hour,” ahead of its debut this Thursday, July 31 on Paramount+ in the U.S. Directed by Jonathan Frakes, the episode incorporates a murder mystery theme: When La’An (Chong) tests a prototype holodeck with a fictional case only she can solve, the consequences of failure get greater and greater, with the Enterprise hanging in the balance.
In celebration of “A Space Adventure Hour,” the episode will be available to stream for free starting Thursday, July 31 through Wednesday, August 6 on Pluto TV, Paramount+ channels on Amazon, Apple and Roku, the Free Content Hub on Paramount+, and the Paramount+ YouTube channel.
Season three of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS premiered with two episodes on Thursday, July 17, with new episodes dropping weekly on Thursdays through the season finale on Thursday, Sept. 11, exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. The series is also available to stream on Paramount+ in international markets where the service is available. Recently, season four wrapped production and it was announced that the series has been renewed for a fifth and final season.
In season three, when we reconnect with the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, still under the command of Captain Pike, they face the conclusion of season two’s harrowing encounter with the Gorn. But new life and civilizations await, including a villain that will test our characters’ grit and resolve. An exciting twist on classic Star Trek, season three takes characters both new and beloved to new heights, and dives into thrilling adventures of faith, duty, romance, comedy and mystery, with varying genres never before seen on any other Star Trek.
The series is produced by CBS Studios, Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment and season three stars Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, Babs Olusanmokun and Martin Quinn, along with guest stars Rhys Darby, Patton Oswalt, Cillian O’Sullivan, Melanie Scrofano and Carol Kane, plus special guest star Paul Wesley.
Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers serve as co-showrunners. Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers, Aaron Baiers, Dana Horgan, Alan McElroy, Robbie Thompson, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Chris Fisher, Anson Mount, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth serve as season three executive producers.
STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS is available to stream exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., the U.K., Latin America, Australia, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Japan. The series is also available on Paramount+ in Canada. It streams on SkyShowtime in the Nordics, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Central and Eastern Europe. The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.
The STAR TREK franchise on Paramount+ also includes STAR TREK: SECTION 31, the original movie with Oscar® winner Michelle Yeoh, and the new original series STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY. All seasons of the animated series STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS; the award-winning original series STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, starring Sonequa Martin-Green; and the critically acclaimed original series STAR TREK: PICARD, starring Patrick Stewart reprising the iconic role of Jean-Luc Picard, are also available to stream.
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About Jim Henson’s Creature Shop
Jim Henson’s Creature Shop™ provides animatronic creatures, digital puppetry, and soft puppets to the international film, television, theater, live event and advertising industries. Recent credits include Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock (Apple TV+), for which it won an Emmy, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix), and the Blumhouse horror franchise Five Nights at Freddy’s. The Shop is renowned for designing and building some of the world’s best-known characters including the Sesame Street puppets, the classic Muppets, and characters from Dinosaurs, Farscape, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and more.Additional feature film credits include Where the Wild Things Are, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The shop is also known for its live performance work for productions including My Neighbour Totoro, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, as well as with artists like Coldplay, The Avett Brothers, Cee Lo Green, Lady Gaga and Deadmau5.
A recipient of over nine Emmy Awards® for its outstanding work building puppets for Sesame Street, the Shop also received an Academy Award for its visual effects work on the film Babe. Other awards include a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award® for the Henson Performance Control System, a powerful custom-based interface for puppeteers, and an Emmy Award for its work in developing the Henson Digital Puppetry Studio, a patented control system technology that enables puppeteers to perform a computer generated (CG) character in real time.
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Between the thrilling Hall H panel to the Strange New Spectacle, and everything in between, Star Trek continues to be bolder than ever.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Jess Bush on Jonathan Frakes at San Diego Comic-Con 2025 | Star Trek
During the Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con 2025, the cast of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds shared what it was like filming "A Space Adventure Hour" and what it was like working with director Jonathan Frakes.
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PAWsome PUPpets! is the first Dynamite Entertainment licensed PAW Patrol book to, with Curiosity Ink Media Partners, Jon Rosenberg and Russell Hicks, based on beloved animated preschool TV series about a heroic pack of rescue pups, PAW Patrol, airing on Nickelodeon and produced by Spin Master Entertainment. PAWsome PUPpets was originally planned to be published in April but has been delayed until May.
Across 48 full color pages with clear photographs and illustrations, readers will learn how to create their own PAW Patrol "PUPpets" with step by step instructions to guide them through the "paws on" process. The puppets are created using age-appropriate and easily accessible materials and tools, requiring only limited help from adults. There are 12 total designs included, so kids can make all their favorite characters. PAW Patrol: PAWsome PUPpets! also includes a bonus chapter with tips on how to use the created puppets for fun performances, how to build a simple puppet theater, and even mini-scripts that even the youngest Paw Patrol fans can act out. To help create the puppets, the book comes with punch-outs of the signature characters' facial features and accessories, as well as templates for tracing – helping kids of all ages bring their favorites to life.
Preschoolers love puppets! With All Paws On Deck! Make Your Own PAW Patrol PUPpets!, no book is too big, and no PUPpet too small, as young PAW Patrol fans learn to create their own fun, colorful PUPpets for endless hours of homespun fun and Adventure Bay play! Simple step-by-step craft instructions matched with clear photographs and illustrations guide boys and girls through the totally "paws on" process of crafting 12 different bright, playful PAW Patrol puppets, using age-appropriate materials and tools . . . and with only limited help from adults. Book includes a bonus chapter, with tips for putting on the best puppet shows, ways to construct a cool puppet theater at home, and simple performance ideas and funny mini-scripts for even the youngest PAW Patrol fans to act out with their puppets! All Paws On Deck! Make Your Own PAW Patrol PUP-pets! comes with punch-outs of the characters' facial features and accessories (for making realistic replicas of their favorite characters, and hand/finger puppet templates for tracing . . .while helping bring their homemade PAW Patrol PUPpets to life!
SRP: 12.99.
PAW Patrol fans can stream full episodes of PAW Patrol, PAW Patrol: The Movie and PAW Patrol Live! At Home featuring "Race to the Rescue" on Paramount+. Try it FREE today at ParamountPlus.com.
The nation’s favourite puppets and TV characters join forces for BBC Children in Need singalong
Pudsey has pulled some strings and for one night only, the biggest and furriest stars on the planet are coming together for a very special cause, especially for Children in Need.
Beloved children's TV puppets and characters are pictured around a piano in a recording studio with Children in Need's Pudsey Bear in the control room.
"It was fantastic to be reunited with so many old friends. And incredibly none of us have aged a day, we all look exactly the same! Boom Boom!" — Basil Brush
In a warm, nostalgia fest for viewers of all ages, the nation’s best loved puppets and classic children’s’ TV favourites will be making a big return for the ultimate supergroup music video parody.
The superstar cast of much loved household names that has assembled for this incredible collaboration includes Basil Brush, Muffin the Mule, Rainbow’s Zippy, George and Bungle, Scott and Virgil from Thunderbirds’, Captain Scarlett and Captain Blue, Zig and Zag, CBBC’s Gordon the Gopher, Edd the Duck, Otis the Aardvark, Oucho, Stanley, Dodge and Hacker T Dog, Channel 5’s Milkshake Monkey, The Neighbour's Cat from Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow, Terrahawks’ Zelda, Mongrel’s Marion and Nelson, Buffering’s Larry the Lizard, and Mr Blobby. Together they will join forces for one of the biggest singalongs Children in Need has ever seen.
Basil Brush says: “It was fantastic to be reunited with so many old friends. And incredibly none of us have aged a day, we all look exactly the same! Boom Boom!”
Hacker T Dog says: “I wouldn’t leave Wigan for just anyone. But when Pudsey called, I thought, I’ve got nothing better to do that day.”
Mr Blobby says: “Blobby, Blobby, Blobby!”
Debuting during BBC Children in Need on Friday night on BBC One, viewers will see the who’s who of the puppet world turn up at a music studio for their big moment in the spotlight. Complete with oversized mics and even bigger headphones, it has all the classic elements of a charity music video. No puppet tears in sight!
The BBC Children in Need live show airs on Friday 19 November from 7pm on BBC One.
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Donation details:
Supporting BBC Children in Need this year is easier than ever. To learn more about the charity or make a donation to help transform the lives of children and young people across the UK, visit: bbc.co.uk/pudsey
You can also call 0345 7 33 22 33 and make a donation over the phone. (Standard geographic charges from landlines and mobiles will apply).
You can donate on the phone or on the BBC Children in Need website. Use your debit or credit card, or your PayPal account.
Pay in your fundraising money at all major banks, building societies, or the Post Office.
Send a cheque or postal order to BBC Children in Need, PO Box 648, Salford, M5 0LB.
In the 2nd and final episode of Blue's Birthday Bash, Josh looks for the final clues to find out what Blue wants for her birthday. Can you help Josh find out what Blue wants for her birthday?
Phoebe (Kira Kosarin) and Max Thunderman (Jack Griffo) are at the paws of Dr. Colosso’s evil (and adorable) rabbit army. Watch as these custom-made action figures take on real life bunnies in a truly un-bunny-lievable way! Catch more The Thundermans on Nickelodeon!
Are you ready to rock?! Well, this music video has got you covered! Check out this extended version of the School of Rocks theme song with Tomika (Breanna Yde), Summer (Jade Pettyjohn), Freddy (Ricardo Hurtado), Zack (Lance Lim), Lawrence (Aidan Miner) and Mr. Finn (Tony Cavalero) as ROCKS! And keep rockin' with School of Rock on Nickelodeon!:
Check out this exclusive peek behind the scenes of School of Rocks. Hang out with the cast and see what it takes to rock (literally!):
Watch more School of Rock, only on Nickelodeon USA!Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Nickelodeon and School of Rock News and Highlights!
You think School of Rock ROCKS? So does NickALive! Now check it out with actual ROCKS. It's boulder then ever! Don't miss School of Rock Saturday Nights on Nickelodeon USA!:
What happens when Mikey, Leo, Donnie, and Raph are recast with homemade sock puppets? Can they still defeat the menacing Shredder and stop the destruction of our world? Find out in this Turtley Awesome TMNT vid!:
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Nickelodeon asked three REAL kids to write their own episode of Harvey Beaks based on the title "Yeti Ready," and had their artists and writers act them out! See what the kids came up with, and catch new episodes of Harvey Beaks every Friday at 8pm/7c, only on Nick USA!:
Harvey Beaks creator C.H. Greenblatt and staff horse Horse read and respond to some of their favorite tweets about Harvey, Fee, Foo and the rest of the Bigbark Woods gang! Watch brand-new episodes of Harvey Beaks every Friday at 8:00pm ET/PT on Nickelodeon USA, and send the Harvey Beaks crew your messages on Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram!:
The Nickelodeon Animation Studio has unveiled a super "Meet the..." video featuring a interview with C.H. Greenblatt, the creator of Nickelodeon's popular original animated buddy comedy series (Nicktoon) "Harvey Beaks", on their official YouTube channel, which you can watch in the fantastic online streaming video clip below!:
Meet C.H. Greenblatt (well, a puppet version anyway) as he talks about creating characters and how "Harvey Beaks" started as a show without Harvey!Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Nickelodeon and Harvey Beaks News and Highlights!
Viacom-owned Nick Jr in Australia is set to launch its latest local original production, with a short-form preschool puppet series featuring an optimistic butterfly and a friendly spelling bee.
Didi and B
Music-themed series Didi and B comes from Nick Australia’s creative director and head of production Kristie Phelan, who also executive produces, while Kala Ellis produces.
It’s the first local production of its kind for the channel since Ollie – a Muppet show spin-off created with Sesame Workshop. May 1 has been pencilled in as the TX date.
Didi will feature the butterfly and bee, which are best friends, in eight musical segments that will aim to help kids wake up, have lunch and go to bed. The episodes will features topics such as the alphabet and days of the week.
The production “fills an ongoing need for unique, locally-produced preschool content in Australia and New Zealand,” said Phelan. “This short-form series is the result of recognising the need for fresh characters for our childhood audience, not only on Nick Jr but within the wider realm of preschool edutainment.”
US children’s channel Disney XD has ordered a new puppet show it claimed will offer a “fresh take” on the buddy comedy genre.
Multi-camera live-action series Crash & Bernstein will follow a teenage boy whose toy puppet comes to life to give him a male foothold in a female-dominated household.
It’s a Laugh Productions will begin shooting the series, from Eric Friedman (Austin & Ally), in Hollywood next month ahead of a fall premiere. Bruce Leddy (Mad TV) directed the pilot.
“The series offers a fresh take on the typical buddy comedy and brings together an everyday kid and his ‘know no limits’ puppet as they navigate life’s adventures,” said Disney’s senior VP of original programming Adam Bonnett.
The series continues the renewed trend for original puppet-based children’s series. Yesterday, C21 reported Nickelodeon Australia would use the medium for its latest in-house series, Didi and B.
Meanwhile, UK pubcaster the BBC has been working with The Jim Henson Company on new ideas around the genre and CBBC/Henson series Me and My Monsters was sold to Italian broadcaster Switchover Media.
The pick-up comes hot on the heels of Disney XD’s acquisition of multi-camera live-action puppet series Crash & Bernstein and Nickelodeon Australia’s move to add short form series Didi and B, also of the genre, to its line-up.
Elsewhere, the BBC has been working with The Jim Henson Company to develop a new Saturday night access primetime puppet series, with the latter having launched its recent Muppets movie. A sequel film is planned.
Jim Henson is also working on a children’s series based on stage musical John Tartaglia’s ImaginOcean, as reported by C21 in March. The show launched at MipTV earlier this month.
