Neil Gaiman is planning a reboot of Jim Henson's The Storyteller

Deadline

Henson's 1987-88 British live-action/puppet TV series, written by future Oscar winner Anthony Minghella, retold European folk tales with John Hurt voicing the elfin narrator. Gaiman says his reboot will create a mystical world combining various fairy tales and folklore, adding that it will be updated to work “for the binging kind” of viewer of today. “Part of what fascinates me about The Storyteller is the stuff that we don’t know,” Gaiman tells Deadline. “Who was the Storyteller, why was he telling these stories, was he a goblin, what kind of creature? What I’d love to do is an inside story that’s as long as the outside story. We’re going to find out a lot about who the storyteller is, we’re going to find out things we don’t even know that we don’t know. We’re going to begin in a Northern kingdom where stories are forbidden and where the act of telling a story is liable and can get you imprisoned or executed. If you put a storyteller into that situation, things would need to start getting interactive.”