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Syfy’s new show, Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge, has the go ahead for eight episodes. The show will pit 10 aspiring creature creators in a series of challenges where they will build everything, from ” mechanical characters to whimsical beasts.” The competition winner gets $100,000 and a contract to work at the famed Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. Jim Henson’s own son Brian Henson is going to be the lead judge.The show is slated for a early 2014 premiere. Mentors on Creature Shop Challenge will be three longtime Creature Shop artists: mechanization and animatronics master John Criswell, designer Peter Brooke, and fabrication and artistic specialist Julie Zobel.’
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