THE MUPPET SHOW TV Special, airing on ABC and on Disney+, brings back a storied franchise to television screens and may introduce ...

We need this revived variety show on our TV once a week, stat!

Kevin Bishop, the young star of Muppet Treasure Island, looks back on his experience working with the Muppets and his ...

"It's time to raise the curtain." When Disney bought the Muppets in the early 2000s, it seemed like the perfect home for Jim Henson’s characters after his death in the 1990s. However, more than 20 ...

Nearly 50 years ago, a prima donna pig made her first appearance on “The Muppet Show” and quickly became its breakout star. Within a few years, she was a sought-after Hollywood celebrity, a pinup ...

It all looks so familiar, but something’s off. There’s the Swedish Chef, but his segments are littered with captions in multiple languages. Here are those old coots Statler and Waldorf, but they’re ...

A look back at one of the most ambitious Muppets projects, a Robert Louis Stevenson adaptation that turns 30 this month.

Those discussion prompts about what story the Muppets should remake are almost entirely because of their Christmas Carol and Treasure Island movies ...

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 ...

A variety show that’s still revered for its absurdist, slapstick humor debuted fifty years ago. It starred an irreverent band of characters made of foam and fleece. As a scholar of popular culture, I ...