Good Morning Today
An alternate universe morning show with digital puppetry.
Good Morning Today is an animated series for Fusion, created by David Javerbaum. The Jim Henson Company, through its Henson Alternative label, and ShadowMachine Films produced the show. It employed the company's real-time motion capture Digital Puppet Studio.
Quick Facts
- Creator
- David Javerbaum
- Voices
- Allan Trautman
- Donna Kimball
- Kristin Charney
- Country
- United States
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 20
- Executive producers
- Lisa Henson
- David Javerbaum
- Alex Bulkley
- Corey Campodonic
- Company
- The Jim Henson Company; ShadowMachine Films
- Channel
- Fusion
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Did You Know?
- The show's plot details an alternate universe's favorite morning news show in New York City.
- Episodes feature live-action celebrity interviews where they improvise variations of their own lives.
Characters
Rilcardo Gomez, motion captured by Tony Sabin Prince and voiced by Allan Trautman, serves as the anchorman. Cathy Smith, motion captured by John Munro Cameron and voiced by Donna Kimball, is the anchorwoman. Senior reporter Flo Qwan is motion captured by John Munro Cameron and voiced by Kristin Charney. Krish Goldstein, motion captured by Tony Sabin Prince and voiced by Allan Trautman, is the roving junior reporter and hosts the segment "Can You Geographically Situate Krish Goldstein."
Episodes
The first episode aired on October 28, 2013, featuring an interview with Chris Hardwick about Twitter Tech, internet videos of insects, and riots in Norway over the release of Thor: The Dark World. Episode 2 on November 28, 2013, covered the 87th Annual Gimble's Thanksgiving Day Parade, with conversations involving balloon master Danny Trejo and children's television host Conan O'Brien. On December 20, 2013, Barack Obama searched for the perfect pen for eight hours and accidentally signed a bill allowing child slavery; Rilcardo Gomez interviewed Daniel Stutzman about the "Bay of Pigs" liberation battle during the invasion on Cuba that toppled Fidel Castro; the movie Captain Phillips was criticized by its crew and Somali pirate Cap'n Agbaal for not depicting the Somali pirates' side; and teenagers enlisted in the war video game The Invasion of Syria.
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