Project Puppet’s third annual puppet contest has landed! This year’s contest is entitled - Puppet Contest 2008: A Space Odyssey.

Here’s a few details about the contest:

• All entries must be received by November 1, 2008.
• The Grand Prize Winner will receive a $200.00 USD cash prize from Project Puppet.
• The First Runner-Up will receive a $100.00 USD credit with Project Puppet.
• An awesome international panel of judges - Terry Angus, Jarrod Boutcher, Ed Christie, Phil Fletcher, and James Wojtal - to narrow down the entries to the Top Ten Finalists.
• And, of course, the contest wraps up with a public vote!

There is a brand new venue for the contest - PuppetContest.com! You can find out more about the contest there or visit Project Puppet to choose the Simple Series pattern right for your character.

I have known about this show for over a year now and it is finally on CBC.  The Mighty Jungle is a live action puppet series for pre-schoolers.

The show stars Frank Meschkuleit, Wendy Welch, Jamie Bradley, Cheryl Wagner and Mike Petersen, The Mighty Jungle is a new series, that uses the imagination and story ideas of kids, to guide the stories of each show.

The Mighty Jungle airs on CBC each weekday morning at 8:45am. Be sure to join the unofficial Facebook group and show your support.

Now I have a soft spot in my heart for ape puppets and seeing these videos have all the right elements to catch my attention and enteretain it.  Beverage Barn is a short episodic comedy series designed for television.

The show was created by Kevin B. Barron & Mauri Bernstein and stars such notable puppeteers as Greg Ballora and Kevin Carlson.  The puppets were built by puppet builder BJ Guyer and his puppet company Puppetown Productions Inc. 

The show follows Colin & Victor the ape brother-owners of Beverage Barn who adore
and irritate each other. Other characters include Beverly, an asthmatic chicken, who is the DJ, Bubbles, the pool shark, Sissy, the barfly, and Waldo, the deep thinking dog.

You can catch the videos on their website or on Youtube.  I really enjoyed it and I hope you do as well.