Tinseltown's gay Muppets headed for the Web

Late last year we reported on an in-development project from the Jim Henson Co., Tinseltown, that apparently featured two gay puppets who adopt a human child. Needless to say, our gay-puppet-adoptive-parents interest meters spiked off the charts for the first time ever.

News that took a while to trickle out of last weekend's Comic Con in San Diego reveals that while the networks may have passed on the project, Tinseltown isn't dead. Instead, proud papas Samson Knight (a bull) and Bobby Vegan (a pig) will be making their way directly to the Net, where Tinseltown is set to premiere as a webshow sometime next year.

Better Web than nothing, although it is a darn shame that the networks didn't pick up the show. The episode that the Henson folks screened at Comic Con was apparently a huge hit, so hopefully the show will find its audience when it launches.

Oh, I just got it: "Samsonite." Please tell me the bull's a leather daddy.

(Note: I do not mean to imply in any way that Statler and Waldorf, pictured above, were gay. They were simply well-heeled gentlemen who enjoyed the theater and preferred each other's company to that of ladies.)