News The Muppet Show 50th Anniversary Special

[The Nth Doctor]

The Hollywood Reporter reports that Sabrina Carpenter and Seth Rogen are among the executive producers for an upcoming 50th anniversary special for The Muppet Show that will be released next year, with Carpenter as the special guest star. Bill Barretta, Dave Goelz, Eric Jacobson, Peter Linz, David Rudman and Matt Vogel will be the main Muppet performers. The special could act as a backdoor pilot of a potential revival of the show.

I'm cautiously optimistic about this news. If this special has the same high quality of writing as The Muppets Mayhem (the only Muppets show or film that I've enjoyed since The Muppets Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island), then this might actually be good. On the other hand, I utterly despised The Muppets (the '10s series). So it could go either way.

 

[Marc]

50 years of the Muppet Show - that’s depressing to think about

My family used to sit down and watch it when broadcast in Australia on a Sunday Night.

Not sure about another go around as a tv series as none of them matched the original.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I don't really see it as depressing, rather I find it inspiring that it has endured. But as a potential revival, I agree. Just keep it as anniversary special as it would be more special then.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

We now have a teaser trailer:

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The brief glimpse looks promising so I remain cautiously optimistic.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

Cautiously optimistic x2

 

[the G-man]

The Muppets died with Jim Henson. Everything since has been MINO

 

[The Nth Doctor]

The Muppets died with Jim Henson. Everything since has been MINO

I mostly agree with the exception of The Muppets Christmas Carol and The Muppets Mayhem (and to a lesser degree, The Muppets Treasure Island). The rest I freely ignore.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Jim could have died the following year, ten years, twenty years later.

The Muppets still would have continued without him and Frank Oz at the helm.

The whole purpose of Jim's trip to Florida was to discuss selling The Muppet brand to Disney, as he wanted to move on to other projects.

It was all set to be done by the end of the year before his untimely passing.

As his death did was postpone the sale until his family and other members of the Jim Henson Workshop could come to a reasonable sale price.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The song "Man or Muppet" deserved its Academy Award and its other awards as well. That buries the premise that the Muppets died with Henson. For our continued enrichment, they live on. I'll certainly check out the special in February.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Muppets Tonight is criminally underrated, and that's a hill I'll happily die on.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

The song "Man or Muppet" deserved its Academy Award and its other awards as well. That buries the premise that the Muppets died with Henson. For our continued enrichment, they live on. I'll certainly check out the special in February.

I hate that song and that film. Doesn't help that I despise Jason Segal's acting.

Muppets Tonight is criminally underrated, and that's a hill I'll happily die on.

That's true. I only caught a couple of episodes at the time but I did watch the whole thing awhile ago and largely enjoyed it. Alas.