Being a Muppet fan is no easy feat. While 2026 has seen the return of The Muppet Show and brought the cast of lovable felt performers back to mainstream pop culture, the preceding years were lean ...

The Muppets are back in the new year. Disney+ and ABC have set the premiere for The Muppet Show, a TV event special that comes from Seth Rogen featuring guest star Sabrina Carpenter. The Muppet Show ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Nobody put too much thought into reinventing the gonzo variety classic for its revival. That’s what makes it a delight. By James Poniewozik James Poniewozik is the chief television critic of The New ...

The Muppet Show debuts on Disney+ on February 4. This year marks 50 years since The Muppet Show debuted in syndication on US television, making a frog, a pig, a bear, a Gonzo, and the rest of the show ...

The original incarnation of The Muppet Show lasted five seasons and 120 episodes, from 1976 to 1981, and in that time some of the biggest names in show-business lined up to take the stage alongside ...

Eleanor is a writer living and working in Naarm, Australia. She enjoys writing about film and TV, with a special interest in outdated fashion, pretty things, and absolute stupidity. The late, great ...

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This mismatched love affair continues a longstanding Muppet tradition: Be it Roger Moore and Miss Piggy, Animal and Rita Moreno, Gonzo and Madeline Kahn or Fozzie Bear and Raquel Welch, horny ...

Legendary filmmaker Orson Welles was certainly onto something when he claimed Sesame Street was the greatest thing to happen to television. Populated by a menagerie of Muppets created by Jim Henson, ...