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WATCH: Trailer drops for Apple TV+ series Fraggle Rock: Rock On! and it’s available to watch now!

April 21st, 2020 by Marc Comments

Yes! The Fraggles are back thanks to AppleTV+ and Jim Henson Company!

It’s like 1987 came back as Gobo, Red, Boober, Mokey, Wembley are all back to tour us around Fraggle Rock!

Streaming from today, Fraggle Rock: Rock On! is a new series of Fraggle shorts described as “a new, original collection of mini-episodes, produced by The Jim Henson Company, premiering today for free exclusively on Apple TV+”, bringing back characters Gobo, Red, Boober, Mokey, Wembley, and Uncle Traveling Matt, “for new stories and classic Fraggle songs that show everyone how we are all connected through friendship.  New mini-episodes will continue to premiere globally for free, every Tuesday.”

While the Fraggles might be in different parts of the Fraggle Rock caves, they can still find ways to have fun together, with music, silliness, special guests, and of course the help of devices created by the industrious Doozers – lovingly called the Doozertubes!  In the first mini-episode entitled “Shine On,” now streaming on Apple TV+, new Doozertubes are delivered to the Fraggles’ caves, allowing them to come together for a favorite song “Shine On, Shine On Me.”

If you’re wondering how Apple TV+ is making a new show at this very moment, when so much is shut down, here’s the answer: all episodes are shot on iPhone 11 phones from the homes of the production team and artists all over the U.S.

Apple TV+ is available on the Apple TV app on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, iPod touch, Mac, select Samsung and LG smart TVs, Amazon Fire TV and Roku devices, as well as at tv.apple.com, for $4.99 per month with a seven-day free trial. The Apple TV app will be available on Sony and VIZIO smart TVs later this year. For a limited time, customers who purchase a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac or iPod touch can enjoy one year of Apple TV+ for free. This special offer is good for three months after the first activation of the eligible device.* For more information, please visit apple.com/tvpr.

Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….