According to Variety magazine, Amazon Studios have signed a deal with Sid and Marty Krofft to produce a pilot for a Sigmund and the Sea Monsters remake. According to the article, the pilot could turn into a regular series, but so far, no release date has been set for the pilot.
I’ll update the site when more information is available.
With the Land of the Lost movie coming out this weekend, the Kroffts are showing up in the press quite a bit. Here are some recent articles and interviews:
A New York Times feature on their work.
An interview with Sid and Marty as part of Collider’s coverage of the movie.
The Washington Times did an online chat with the brothers, here’s the transcript.
The Boston Globe’s article on the Kroffts.
Finally, The Onion’s AV Club has a new article,“Welcome to the altered state of Druggachusettes!”: 25 notably trippy kids’ shows, that mentions a few of the Kroffts’ shows.
The TV Land Awards took place over the weekend and as part of the Pop Culture Award presentation to the Kroffts, Cyndi Lauper performed the Electra Woman and Dyna Girl theme dressed up as one of their villains, the Empress of Evil, with her backup singers dressed as Electra Woman and Dyna Girl.
You can find photos from the event on Cyndi’s page.
The Land of the Lost theme was performed by Clint Black and reportedly, Billie Hayes made an appearance as Witchiepoo.
The TV Land Awards will air on TV Land next Sunday, April 26th.
The 2009 TV Land Awards will take place on Sunday, April 19th, at 8 PM and Sid and Marty Krofft are scheduled to be given the Pop Culture Award, which is given to producer(s) whose series have a major impact on pop culture. Cyndi Lauper and David Cassidy are scheduled to pay tribute to the brothers.
A week later on April 26th at 8 PM ET/PT, the award show will be aired on TV Land.
With the Land of the Lost film coming out in June 2009, it looks like more Krofft series will be remade into feature films. According to this article in Variety, feature film versions of H. R. Pufnstuf and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters are in the works.
Sid and Marty Krofft just started their own Myspace page http://www.myspace.com/krofft.
Their Myspace page features new video featuring the Kroffts, as well as Krofft Kwickies, which are episodes of most of their series edited down into four to five minute shorts.
Forbes magazine just published a new article on Sid and Marty Krofft that covers their history and talks about the upcoming Land of the Lost film. Read it here.
