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The return of The Muppet Show!
In what is perhaps the biggest news in TV comedy of the year - maybe in forty years - earlier this month, a brand new episode of The Muppet Show was released. The Muppet Show was Jim Henson’s star-studded vaudeville variety TV show that ran for 5 seasons over 120 episodes from 1976 to 1981. Now, forty years later, The Muppet Show is back, streaming on Disney Plus, with Seth Rogan as Executive Producer. Revivals are a fraught undertaking though … so was the new Muppet Show any good? Guest: Craig Shemin, TV show writer, Henson historian and President of The Jim Henson Legacy - the non-profit…
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