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‘The Muppet Show’ Review: Sabrina Carpenter Is the Ideal Host for a Promising Special That Reminds Us What the Muppets Do Best

"Isn't it wonderful to be back in the theater again giving the people what they truly want?" Miss Piggy inquires early in The Muppet Show, a half-hour special premiering on ABC and Disney+ this week ...
ScreenCrush on MSN

Report: No 'active conversations' about a new 'Muppet Show'

There have been a lot of attempts to reboot or revive the Muppets in the last decade or so, most of them pretty mediocre. The ...
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'The Muppet Show' special brings back the magic of the original — and a couple of Muppets

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to see the Muppets on "The Muppet Show" again. A new special ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Kermit the Frog Was Just Trying to Put on a Variety Show. Fifty Years Later, the Muppets Are Some of the Biggest Stars in Television History

The first episode of Jim Henson's "The Muppet Show" premiered in the United Kingdom on September 5, 1976. Enthusiasm for the eclectic ensemble has endured ever since ...
Moviefone

The Muppets are back where they belong with 'The Muppet Show' Special

Premiering on Disney+ and ABC February 4th is the new 'The Muppet Show' Special, which will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking original series. (L to R) Bean Bunny, Fozzie Bear, ...
The Daily Beast

‘The Muppet Show’ Is Back to Distract You From ‘Day-to-Day Terrors’

Welcome to UNMISSABLE, the Daily Beast’s Obsessed’s guide to the one thing you need to watch today. Whether it’s the most gripping streaming show, the most hilarious comedy, the movie which you’ll ...
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Fans like me really want more Muppets episodes, and there's one big reason it must happen

Over the weekend, when I saw that The Muppets Show is new on streaming, I couldn’t have clicked play faster. See, The Muppets backlog has been a source of comfort for me when I go on Disney+ these ...
The Forward

The Muppets are my rabbi, and they should be yours

You may have heard the refrain that we live in dark times. It is true. Just as true is that nothing is as effective at combatting darkness as joy. It is an emotion essential to the art of envisioning ...
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Jim Henson wanted the Muppets to live on. The show will return for a special reboot

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Tonight, some 1970s celebs are coming back to visit. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE MUPPET SHOW") UNIDENTIFIED ACTORS: (Singing) This is what we call The Muppet Show. MARTIN: "The ...

A flooded basement, a silver Kermit, and 50 magical years of The Muppets

It's been 50 years since The Muppet Show hit TV screens around the world. For one Australian puppeteer, it was the adventure ...
NPR

Jim Henson wanted the Muppets to live on. The show will return for a special reboot

A one-episode reboot of "The Muppet Show" airs on February 4. Jim Henson, the show's late creator, always hoped they'd live on. We'll hear excerpts from a Morning Edition interview Henson gave in 1986 ...